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An item reported the arrival at Willemstad, Curacao on Friday 31st March of the American steam warship USS Enterprise commanded by Schepard coming from Barbados.(1)
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1. Barque rigged screw steam sloop built by the private contractor John W. Grffiths at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, USA on 13 June 1874, commissioned on 16 March 1877, for the last time decommissioned on 4 May 1908, sold on 1 October. With a displacement of 1.375 tons were her dimensions 56 x 11 x 4,34 metres or 185’x 35’x 14’3”, with a speed of 11 knots, a crew numbering 184 men consisted her armament of 1-28cm/11”smooth bore gun, 4-23 cm/9” guns and 1-60pd gun.
