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| Ship tons burthen=120,<ref name=LR1795/> or 126<ref name=LoM>{{cite web|url=http://www.1812privateers.org/Great%20Britain/marque1793-1815.pdf|title=Letter of Marque, p.38 - accessed 25 July 2017.|publisher=|access-date=27 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161020052005/http://www.1812privateers.org/Great%20Britain/marque1793-1815.pdf|archive-date=20 October 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> ([[Builder's Old Measurement|bm]])
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| Ship complement =*1800:20<ref name=LoM/>
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| Ship armament =*1796: 8 × 4-pounder guns
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'''''Goodrich''''' was a brig launched in Bermuda in 1793. She made three voyages between 1795 and 1799as a [[slave ship]] in the [[triangular trade]] in enslaved people. She then became a general merchantman and was wrecked in 1808.
==Career==
''Goodrich'' first appeared in ''[[Lloyd's Register]]'' (''LR'') in 1795 with Holmes, master, R.Fisher, owner, and trade Liverpool–Africa.<ref name=LR1795>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015004281294?urlappend=%3Bseq=155 ''LR'' (1795), "G" supple. pages.]</ref>
===1st enslaving voyage (1795–1797)===
Captain Joseph Peers sailed from Liverpool on 14 December 1795. He acquired captives at Gambia and arrived at Demerara on 16 November 1796. ''Goodrich'' sailed from Demerara on 26 January 1797 and arrived back at Liverpool on 15 March. She had left Liverpool with 15 crew members and she suffered 10 crew deaths on the voyage.<ref>[https://www.slavevoyages.org/voyage/81622/variables Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – ''Goodrich'' voyage #81622.]</ref>
The [[Slave Trade Act 1788]] (Dolben's Act) was the first British legislation passed to regulate slave shipping. The Act limited the number of enslaved people that British enslaving ships were permitted to transport without penalty, based on the ships' tons burthen. At a burthen of 126 tons, the cap would have been 210 captives.
===2nd enslaving voyage (1797–1798)===
Captain Peers sailed from Liverpool on 9 November 1796. He started acquiring captives in Gambia on 16 December, and sailed from Africa on 12 February 1798. On 6 March ''Goodrich'' arrived at Demerara with 178 captives. She left Demerara on 9 May and arrived back at Liverpool on 29 June. She had left Liverpool with 21 crew members and she had suffered four crew deaths on the voyage.<ref>[https://www.slavevoyages.org/voyage/81623/variables Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – ''Goodrich'' voyage #81623.]</ref> Captain Peers next captained a different {{ship||Goodrich|1799 schooner|2}} on two enslaving voyages (1799, and 1799–1800).
===3rd enslaving voyage (1798–1799)===
Captain Henry Kennedy sailed from Liverpool on 29 October 1798. He acquired captives in Angola.{{sfnp|Williams|1897|p=684}} ''Goodrich'' arrived at Kingston, Jamaica on 25 June 1799 with 209 captives. She left Kingston on 22 July and arrived back at Liverpool on 3 October. She had left Liverpool with 28 crew members and she suffered 17 crew deaths on the voyage.<ref>[https://www.slavevoyages.org/voyage/81624/variables Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – ''Goodrich'' voyage #81624.]</ref>
===Merchantman===
On her return her owners sold ''Goodrich'' and she became a general merchantman.
Captain Thomas Richardson acquired a [[letter of marque]] on 15 April 1800, and Captain William Rogerson acquired one on 13 February 1801.<ref name=LoM/>
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| 1800
| Kennedy<br />Richardson
| Clarke<br />Humble & Co.
| Liverpool–Africa<br />Liverpool–[[Livorno|Leghorn]]
| ''Register of Shipping''<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015021233591?urlappend=%3Bseq=153 ''RS'' (1800), Seq.№G157.]</ref>
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| 1801
| Richardson<br />Rogerson
| Humble
| Liverpool–Leghorn<br />London–[[İzmir|Smyrna]]
| ''RS''<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015021233559?urlappend=%3Bseq=230 ''LR'' (1805), Seq.№270.]</ref>
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| 1802
| W.Rogerson<br/>J.Mears
| Humble<br/>Spurrier
| London–Smyrna<br/>Portsmouth–Newfoundland
| ''LR''
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In September 1803 ''[[Lloyd's List]]'' reported that a French privateer had captured ''Goodrich'', Mears, master, as ''Goodrich'' was sailing from Charleston to Liverpool. The privateer ''Vigilant'', of Guernsey, had recaptured ''Goodrich'' and taken her into Guernsey.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Marine List |work=Lloyd's List |issue=4382 |date=6 September 1803 |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044050633072?urlappend=%3Bseq=159}}</ref>{{efn|On 25 May 1803 Captain Thomas Quertier acquired a [[letter of marque]] for ''Vigilant'', a [[Smack (ship)|smack]] of 65 tons (bm). She was armed with eight 3-pounder guns and had a crew of 30 men.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.1812privateers.org/Great%20Britain/marque1793-1815.pdf|title=Letter of Marque, p.91 – Retrieved 25 July 2017.|access-date=27 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161020052005/http://www.1812privateers.org/Great%20Britain/marque1793-1815.pdf|archive-date=20 October 2016|url-status=dead }}</ref> ''Vigilant'' had been launched at Cowes in 1801. She was registered at Guernsey in 1803. Her registration was transferred to Jersey in 1826.{{sfnp|Sarre|2007|p=298}}}}
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| 1807
| J.Mears<br/>R.Daw
| W.Spurrier
| Portsmouth–Newfoundland
| ''LR''; good repair 1802
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==Fate==
''[[Lloyd's List]]'' (''LL'') reported in January 1808 that ''Goodrich'', Daw, master, had been wrecked on the Irish coast. She was on a voyage from Newfoundland to [[Poole, Dorset]].<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2735023?urlappend=%3Bseq=227 ''LL'' 19 January 1808, №4221.]</ref>
==Notes==
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==Citations==
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==References==
* {{cite book|last=Sarre |first=John W. |editor-last=Howell |editor-first=Alan |year=2007 | title=Guernsey sailing ships, 1786–1936 |publisher=Guernsey Museum monograph series |volume=8}}
* {{cite book |last=Williams |first=Gomer |year=1897 |title=History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque: With an Account of the Liverpool Slave Trade |publisher=W. Heinemann}}
[[Category:1793 ships]]
[[Category:Ships built in Bermuda]]
[[Category:Age of Sail merchant ships of England]]
[[Category:Liverpool slave ships]]
[[Category:Captured ships]]
[[Category:Maritime incidents in 1808]]