Tarleton (1789 ship)

For other ships with the same name, see List of ships named Tarleton.

History
Great Britain
NameTarleton
BuilderLiverpool
Launched1789
FateCaptured 1797
French Navy EnsignFrance
Acquired1797 by capture
FateSold 1803?
United Kingdom
NameTarleton
Acquiredc.1803 probably by purchase
FateProbably wrecked 1818; last listed 1818 (LR) & 1824 (RS);
General characteristics
Tons burthen286,[1] or 298,[2] or 299,[3] or 300[4](bm)
PropulsionSail
Complement
Armament
  • 1793:22 × 12, 9, & 4-pounder guns[1]
  • 1794:18 × 12&9-pounder guns[1]
  • 1805:10 × 4&3-pounder guns[3]
  • 1814:10 × 9-pounder guns[4]

Tarleton (or Tarlton) was launched in 1789 at Liverpool for Tarleton & Co., a Liverpool firm that had been in the slave trade for three generations. She traded with the West Indies and made one voyage as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. The French captured her after she had landed her captives. She returned to English hands c.1803 and sailed as a merchantman for some years thereafter. She appears to have been wrecked in April 1818.

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