An item reported
that in the night the American corvette USS Canandaigua commanded by Jos. St.
Strong passed Vlissingen, Netherlands underway towards Antwerp, Belgium,
probably coming from Lisbon, Portugal.(1)
Note
1. Launched at the
Boston Navy Yard, Charleston, Massachusetts,
USA on 28 March 1862,
commissioned on 1 August 1862, renamed Detroit
on 15 May 1869, retained her original name on 10 August 1869, decommissioned on
8 November 1875 and finally broken up in 1884. The armament consisted of 2-11’/28xm
smoothbore guns, 1-8”/20cm smoothbore guns and 3-20pd rifles. 
