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Tuesday 14 April 2015

British screw steam sloop HMS Racer arrived at Malta coming from Greece according to the Dutch newspaper Rotterdamsche courant dated 9 March 1867

An item dated Malta the 8th reported the arrival of the British corvette Racer coming from Crete.(1)

Note
1. Wood-built screw steam sloop, launched at the Deptford Dockyard on 4 November 1857 and finally broken up at Portsmouth in 1876. The armament consisted of 11-32pd guns.