| HMS Growler (1841) | |
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| Career (United Kingdom) |  |
| Name: | HMS Prowler |
| Commissioned: | 20 July 1841 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Driver-class sloop |
HMS Growler was a paddle-driven Driver-class sloop laid down in Pembroke and completed at Chatham on 20 July 1841.[1]
HMS Growler was ordered under PW1840 along with other Driver-class paddle sloops.[2]
On 31 March 1842, HMS Growler was assigned to the South East Coast of America Station to combat the slave trade.[1]
HMS Growler was re-assigned to the West Africa Squadron in September 1844.[1] The vessel was involved in a scheme to relocate liberated Africans from Sierra Leone to the Caribbean, arriving in Trinidad in December 1847.[3] 150 men, 37 women and 254 children former captives survived the journey, although 45 Africans died on the journey.[4]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "HMS Growler". pbenyon.plus.com. http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/G/02092.html. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
- ↑ Friedman, Norman (2012) (in en). British Cruisers of the Victorian Era. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 9781473853126. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sOWZBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA56&lpg=PA56&dq=HMS+Growler+(1841)+Driver+class&source=bl&ots=pKw8elHQxJ&sig=-utTZJ4iYoX-tNbMX1wf9fpzDXE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjvv6TI6MfeAhVPT8AKHcYWDvQQ6AEwBXoECAUQAQ#v=onepage&q=HMS%20Growler%20(1841)%20Driver%20class&f=false. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
- ↑ Adderley, Rosanne Marion (2006) (in en). "New Negroes from Africa": Slave Trade Abolition and Free African Settlement in the Nineteenth-century Caribbean. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253347033. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FXE23WQXz_YC&pg=PA269&dq=King%27s+Yard+Sierra+Leone&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi2mv7r4MfeAhUsL8AKHYoXDrgQ6AEIODAC#v=onepage&q=King's%20Yard%20Sierra%20Leone&f=false. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
- ↑ Charles Day, Williams (1852) (in English). Five Years' Residence in the West Indies Vol. 1. Colburn and co.. https://archive.org/details/fiveyearsreside02daygoog/page/n7. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
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