They sent out regular patrols to search for slave vessels violating the ban.

After the British abolished the slave trade in 1808, the Royal Navy started patrolling along the African coast and high seas, seizing all slave vessels.

While under the command of Lieutenant Bolton from 24 February 1833 until the wreck, Nimble captured six slave vessels with a total of 1902 Africans aboard.

Here he found history and mythology, shipwrecks, whaling, slave vessels and the new steamships.

The ship is a slave vessel, using members of the leonine Tharil race as their navigators.

They disrupted the flow of labor and capital by attacking, capturing and sometimes destroying slave vessels.

While at Port Louis she captured four slave vessels.

The sailing ships that so many have tried to reach turn out to be slave vessels.

The significance of the abolition of the British slave trade lay in the number of people hitherto sold and carried by British slave vessels.

A pore lubber like me without a single slave to me vessel.