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The Capture of Veloz Passagera was a single-ship action that occurred during the British Royal Navy 's anti-slavery blockade of Africa in the early and mid 19th century. The sloop-of-war HMS Primrose, of 18 guns, under Captain William Broughton, captured the 20-gun Spanish slave ship Veloz Passagera, Jozé Antonio de la Vega, master.
HMS. Despatch. (1804) HMS Dispatch (also Despatch) was a Royal Navy Cruizer -class brig-sloop built by Richard Symons & Co. at Falmouth and launched in 1804. [1] Dispatch was instrumental in the capture of a 40-gun French frigate and was active at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1807. She also sailed on the Jamaica station.
The fourth voyage of Columbus was a Spanish maritime expedition in 1502–1504 to the western Caribbean Sea led by Christopher Columbus.The voyage, Columbus's last, failed to find a western maritime route to the Far East, returned relatively little profit, and resulted in the loss of many crew men, all the fleet's ships, and a year-long marooning in Jamaica.
In January 1809 Primrose sailed for Spain with a convoy. During a snowstorm she ran aground at 5 am on 22 January on Minstrel Rock, The Manacles, a mile offshore, and was wrecked. [5] [6] (The Manacles are a set of treacherous rocks off The Lizard, close to the shipping lane into Falmouth, Cornwall.) The sole survivor was a drummer boy. [7 ...
Brig-sloop. Complement. 121. Armament. 16 × 32-pounder carronades + 2 × 6-pounder guns. HMS Pelican was an 18-gun Cruizer -class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, launched in August 1812. She is perhaps best known for her capture in August 1813 of the brig USS Argus. When the navy sold Pelican in 1865 she was the last Cruizer -class vessel still ...
Isabella, British slave ship that brought the first 150 African slaves to the American port of Philadelphia in 1684. Jamaica Planter, Mr. George Burton, merchant of London, was slave trading on Gold Coast and West Indies in 1775. [18] James, was launched in Spain in 1802, almost certainly under another name. She was captured in 1804 and ...
Brig rigged. Complement. 121. Armament. 16 × 32-pounder carronades. 2 × 6-pounder bow guns. HMS Moselle was a Cruizer -class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, launched in 1804. She served during the Napoleonic Wars in the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, and the North American station. She was sold in 1815.
HMS Diligence was the name ship of her class of brig-sloops of the Royal Navy.She was launched in 1795 and lost in 1800. She spent her brief career on the Jamaica station where she captured four armed vessels, one of them after a short engagement, and many small Spanish and French merchant vessels in the Caribbean inter-island and coastal trade.