| History | |
|---|---|
 Great Britain | |
| Name | Tarleton |
| Owner | Tarleton & Co.[1] |
| Builder | Liverpool |
| Launched | 1796 |
| Fate | Lost late 1798 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen | 260,[2] or 261[3] (bm) |
| Propulsion | Sail |
| Complement | 20[2] |
| Armament |
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Tarleton was launched in 1796 at Liverpool for Tarleton & Co., a Liverpool firm that had been in the slave trade for three generations. She made two full voyages as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people before she was wrecked on a third voyage in late 1798. On her first voyage she repelled two attacks by French privateers in single-ship actions. Unusually, but not uniquely, slaves helped work her guns.
- ^ Lloyd's Register (1796) Supplement, no sequence number.
- ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference
LoMwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Lloyd's List, Seq.№7.