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Wednesday, 22 July 2015

British sloop HMS Satellite departed Paramaribo, France according to the Dutch newspaper Nieuwe Surinaamsche courant dated 30 June 1838

An item reported the departure from Paramaribo, Surinam on the 27th of the British corvette HMS Satellite (1) captain Robb with as passengers C.J. Dalrymple and family.(2)

Notes
1. Launched at the Pembroke Dock on 2 October 1826 and broken up in February 1849, with an armament of 16-32pd carronades and 2-9pd guns. Sloop,
2. Member of the Mixed British and Netherlands Commission for the repression of the Slave-trade?