Several vessels have been named ''Brothers'': * was launched in 1782 at Liverpool as a

Guineaman Slave ships were large cargo ships specially built or converted from the 17th to the 19th century for transporting slaves. Such ships were also known as "Guineamen" because the trade involved human trafficking to and from the Guinea coast in ...

. She made seven complete voyages as a

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in the

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in enslaved people. A French privateer captured her in 1795, on her eighth voyage after she had embarked her captives. In a highly unusual move, the privateer sold ''Brothers'' and her slaves to the master of a Spanish vessel that the privateer had captured. The purchaser then took ''Brothers'' into Havana. * was the name ship of a two-vessel class of "brick-

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s" (advice brigs), built to a design by Raymond-Antoine Haran and launched in 1787. She served the French Navy for several years carrying dispatches until in 1793 and captured her off

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. The

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took her into service briefly as ''Goelan'' and sold her in 1794. As the merchant brig ''Brothers'' she appears to have sailed as a

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in the British southern whale fishery until 1808 or so, and then traded between London and the . She was no longer listed after 1815. * was launched in the

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in 1772, probably under another name. From 1785 on she became a Bristol-based

. She made six complete voyages in the

, in all embarking 1880 enslaved people. The French captured her in December 1794 as she was on the first leg of her seventh such voyage and before she had embarked any captives. The main source for this article provided detail on crew turnover and death rates for her first three voyages. The first voyage had a particularly heavy mortality rate among the crew. The main source also provided data for her fourth, fifth, and sixth voyages for mortality rates on the

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among the enslaved people that she was carrying. * ''Brothers'', of 169 tons ( bm) and six 3-pounder guns, served the

as a

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between 12 April 1793 and 20 September 1797. * ''Brothers'', of 256 tons, was a whaler that operated out of

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. Between 1801 and about 1823 she made 10–11 whaling voyages. In the 1805–1807 voyage, under the command of Benjamin Worth, she was one of the first whalers from the United States to engage in whaling in the waters off New Zealand and New South Wales. * was built in

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, England in 1815. She made one voyage for the British

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(EIC), and two

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to Australia. Afterwards she traded across the Atlantic, primarily to Quebec, and was last listed in 1837. * was an Australian schooner of 40 tons ( bm) wrecked in 1816.

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