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Sunday 9 February 2020

British 6th rate HMS Sapphire visited Willemstad, Curacao according to the Dutch newspaper De Curacaosche courant dated 14 April 1832

An item reported the departure from Willemstad, Curacao on Saturday the7th of the British corvette HMS Sapphire commanded by William Wellesley towards Jamaica.(1)

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1. 6th Rate launched at the Portsmouth dockyard, England on 31 January 1827, sold at Trincomalee, Ceylon on 5 November 1864 with a builders measurement of 604 tons and an armament of 28 guns.