I could not find more on the slave ship depict on the 50p stamp (Granville Sharpe) of the “abolition of the slave trade” issued by Great Britain, in 2007.
The other stamp with a maritime connection is the 50p stamp (Thomas Clarkson) which depicts the man himself and a stowage plan of a slave vessel.
The stowage plan did belong to the slave vessel BROOKS, sometimes wrongly given BROOKES.
She was measured in 1788 for a British Parliamentary enquiry into the British slave trade, in which the carrying capacity of slave ships was reduced in 1789.
Before she carried up to 740 slaves, after the enquire she was not allowed to carry more as 442 slaves.
British abolitionists printed a placard of the BROOKS stowage plan to illustrate the point that even under the new regulations slave ships were still very much overcrowded.
The BROOKS was built in 1781 at Liverpool.
She was named after one of the shareholders in the ship Joseph Brooks a merchant from Liverpool.
Tonnage 297 tons.
Her lower deck did have a length of 30.48m. and a wide of 7.74m., the height between the main and lower decks measured 1.76m.
She was used in the triangle trade between the U.K. and the “Middle Passage” (Guinea Trade), then to West Indies with slaves before heading home, mostly with sugar.
The BROOKS made four voyages from the Africa’s Gold Coast to Kingston, Jamaica in 1781, 1783, 1785 and 1786.
She was used in the slave trade till 1804, when it was captured and held by the Authorities in Buenos Aires.
Her fate not found.
Source: http://www.virtualjamestown.org/map4b.html http://www.jmr.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/Co ... viewpage/2