An item reported the arrival at Willemstad, Curacao on the 2nd of the American corvette USS Germantown commanded y Charles Lowndes coming from Puerto Cabello. Departing Wednesday 6th towards Santo Domingo.(1)
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1. Sloop, launched at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 22 August 1846 by Mrs. Lavinia Fanning Watson, brought to the Norfolk Navy Yard to prevent damage by ice on 18 December, commissioned on 9 March 1847, scuttled at the Gosport Navy Yard by retreating Union forces 20 April 1861, salvaged by the Confederate forces and converted into a floating battery station near Craney Island to defend the harbour of Norfolk, scuttled by Southern forces in the Elizabeth River on 10 May 1862, salvaged by the Union forces on 22 April 1863, never commissioned again and her hull was sold on an auction held at Norfolk on 8 February a year later. With a displacement of 954 tons/939 long tons were her dimensions 46 x 11 x 5,08 metres or 150’x 36’x 16’8”, a speed of 11 knots, a crew numbering 210 men and an armament consisting of 4-20cm/8” guns and 18-32pd guns.
