Tarleton (1789 ship)

History
Great Britain
NameTarleton
BuilderLiverpool
Launched1789
FateCaptured 1797
France
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, or 298, or 299, or 300(bm)
PropulsionSail
Complement
  • 1793: 70
  • 1794:36
Armament
  • 1793:22 × 12, 9, & 4-pounder guns
  • 1794:18 × 12&9-pounder guns
  • 1805:10 × 4&3-pounder guns
  • 1814:10 × 9-pounder guns

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.