American screw steam sloop USS Vandalia visited Willemstad, Curacao according to the Dutch newspaper De Curacaosche courant dated 4 February 1882

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An item reported the departure on Tuesday 31st January of the steam warship USS Vandalia commanded by R.W. Meade towards Savanilla, Colombia.(1)

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1. Screw steam sloop. Laid down at the Boston Navy yard, Massachusetts USA  in 1872, commissioned on 10 January 1876 and wrecked during the so0called Apia cyclone at Apia, Samoa on 16 March 1889. With a displacement of 2.066 tons/2.033 long tons were her dimensions(between perpendiculars) x 12 x 6,1 metres or 216’x 29’x 20’. The armament consisted of 8 guns.