Backhouse (1798 ship)

History
Great Britain
NameBackhouse
NamesakeDaniel Backhouse
Owner1799: John Tarleton and Daniel Backhouse
BuilderDartmouth
Launched1798
Captured24 March 1810
General characteristics
Tons burthen
  • Initial data:160, or 168 (bm)
  • Later data: 258 (bm)
Complement
  • 1806:35
  • 1808:25
  • 1809:25
Armament
  • 1806: 18 × 6-pounder guns
  • 1808: 14 × 6-pounder guns + 2 × 12-pounder carronades
  • 1809: 12 × 6-pounder guns

Backhouse was launched in 1798, at Dartmouth. In all, she made four voyages as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. Between the second and the third, and again after the fourth, she was a West Indiaman. A French privateer captured her early in 1810, as she was returning to Britain from Brazil.