slave-brig

Updated: May 10, 2025

Sometimes the boats were sent away for days, and even weeks together, to watch for slavers, and were thus often successful in capturing them when their ships had failed to do so. In this way a mate of the Hyacinth, Mr Tottenham, who was a remarkably good shot, in a four-oared gig chased a slave-brig, armed with a long gun and a number of muskets.

William Henry Giles Kingston - How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves: Updated to 1900