HMS Black Joke
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The story of one ship's battle against the slave trade. The ish west african squadron the royal navy deploying to try and interdict the flow of enslaved africans across the atlantic in two years. In all that time, the british only intercepted 13 slave ships, and she accounted for 11 of them. She was a weapon, a fast sailor, manned by a highly professional crew. Thit's a great story. It's been ched, it's been shared. And as you'll hear, she's absotly brilliant.
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