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Sunday, 12 October 2014

British brig HMS Mercury departed Curacao towards Venezuela according to the Dutch newspaper De Curacaosche courant dated 26 February 1820

An item reported the departure on Saturday morning from Willemstad, Curacao of the British brig HMS Mercury captain Pool while escorting vessels bound for Puerto Cabello and La Guayra, Venezuela.(1)

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1. The brig Mercury built at Bombay, British Indies in 1806 which became a coal hulk in 1865 or the tender Mercury built in 1807 at Rotherhithe and broken up in October 1835.