An item reported
the departure from Paramaribo,
Surinam by the
British frigate HMS Danaé commanded by Brown towards Barbados.(1)
Note
1. A screw steam sloop of the Eclips-class laid
down at the Portsmouth Dockyard in 1865, launched on 21 May 1867, completed in
November 1867, rerated as a corvette in 1876, lent to the War Department in
1886 as a mine hulk and finally sold to be broken up on 15 May 1905. The
armament consisted of 2-7”
rifled muzzle lading guns and 4-6.3”/64 pd rifled muzzle loading guns.
