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Monday 1 September 2014

British 4th rate HMS Salisbury visited St. Thomas according to the Dutch newspaper De Curacaosche courant dated 17 June 1820

An item reported the arrival at St. Thomas on 6 June of the British HMS Salisbury flagship of rear admiral William Charles Fahie coming from the Windwards Isles.(1)

Note
1. 4th Rate, launched at the Deptford dockyard, England on 21 June 1814, sold to be broken up in January 1837, a 1199 tons builders measurement and an armament of 58 guns.