Ralph Fisher

Father and son left Liverpool on board Brothers bound for West Africa on a slave voyage.

John Kendall angered his father, who threw him into the Irish Sea as the ship passed Perch Rock.

The ship sailed on and it was not until its return, a year later, that Richard Kendall discovered his son was still alive.

[4] She wrote, "Captain Kendall was a specimen of what the frightful traffic in human creatures can make a man, but it left him the virtues of uprightness and truthfulness.

[5] In 1792, unusually, two of Fisher's ships Echo and Philip Steven returned to Liverpool without a cargo.