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CURLEW
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Built in 1830, Woolwich (Cherokee class).
Broken up in 1849. |
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- 1830 George WOOLCOMBE, 03/1830, Woolwich.
- 1831 Henry TROTTER, 07/1830 Cape of Good Hope.
- On 4 June 1833 CURLEW discovered the pirate ship PANDA in the River Nazereth on the African coast. PANDA, a Baltimore clipper of about 150bm, was wanted for the sack and attempted burning of the Salem ship MEXICAN on 20 September 1832. Capt. TROTTER went in with 40 men in three boats and boarded PANDA but most of the pirates escaped ashore where they were captured by a native chief. Twelve of the pirates were taken back to CURLEW in irons. PANDA was destroyed by an accidental explosion which killed CURLEW's Purser, Gunner and two of her seamen and a boy.
- The captured pirates were sent in the brig SAVAGE, Lieut. LONEY, to Massachusetts were they were tried in Boston on 11 November 1834 and on 11 June 1835 five of them, the master and four seamen, were hanged. (The last survivor of the affair, Thomas FULLER of the MEXICAN died in Salem in December 1906)
- 1836 Lieut. Edmund NORCOTT, 08/1835, Coast of Africa.
- 1839 Lieut. George ROSE, 03/1839, Cape of Good Hope and Coast of Africa. The FATHE ELASMO and ZARUGA were taken on 19 and 21 March and DOM PEDRO, DUQUE DE PORTO on 26 March 1840.
- 1841 Thomas Courtis ROSS, 12/1839, South America.
- 1844 Portsmouth.
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