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TWEED
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Built in 1823, Portsmouth.
Sold in 1852. |
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- 1824 Capt. Frederick HUNN, 11/1823, Portsmouth. She sailed on the afternoon of 25 January 1826 for Mexico carrying Cpl.
Dashwood who had been appointed a consul there.
Funchal on 15 Feb.; Carlisle Bay, Barbados, on 20 March.
Port Royal on 5 April, Vera Cruz on the 19th. and Tampico on 9 May.
Havana on 6 June, sailing from there on 13 June to rejoin the flag at Port Royal and arriving on 5 July after running gently aground on the middle bank.
Port-au-Prince on 20 July and sailed on 6 August.
On the 29th., in company with AURORA and HARLEQUIN they captured a schooner under Dutch colours with 267 slaves on board. She sailed for England on 26 February 1827.
returning to Portsmouth on 23 April with half a million dollars on account of the Mexican Government and one and a half million dollars and 336 serons of cochineal, worth 40,000 L Sterling, on merchants' account.
TWEED was paid off on 17 May. - 1827 Capt. Lord H. J.S.
CHURCHILL, 05/1827, re-commissioned on 18 May.
Sailed on 9 September carrying copper coin to pay troops at the Cape of Good Hope.
(ESPOIR had sailed at the end of August with 70,000 L in gold and silver coin).
Five midshipmen, the schoolmaster and the surgeon all died of fever after a picnic ashore at St. Jago.
From Simon's Bay TWEED was ordered to Mauritius, arriving at Port Louis on on 10 March 1828 and returning to the Cape on 11 May. - 1832 (20-gun) Cdr. Allan BERTRAM, 05/1831, West Indies.
- 1835 Cdr. Thomas MAITLAND, 04/1835, Lisbon.
- 1837 Cdr. F. T. PELHAM, 01/1837.
- 1840 Portsmouth.
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