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Saturday, 3 August 2019

American sloop of war USS Natcez departed Curacao towards Venezuela according to the Dutch newspaper De Curacaosche courant dated 8 August 1829

An item reported the departure from Willemstad, Curacao on Monday 3rd of the American corvette USS Natchez captain Claxton towards Maracaibo, Venezuela.(1)

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1. Sloop of war launched in 1827 at the Norfolk Navy Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia, USA, broken up at the same yard in 1840, with a displacement of 203 tons/200 long tons and an armament of 18 guns.