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Friday 23 August 2019

British brig sloop HMS Grasshopper visited Willemstad, Curacao according to the Dutch newspaper De Curacaosche courant dated 12 December 1829

An item reported the arrival at Willemstad, Curacao in Tuesday 8th of the British corvette Grasshopper captain coming from Puerto Cabello. Left on Thursday towards Jamaica.(1)

Note
The edition dated 18 May 1844 mentioned that she was repaired at the shipyard of H. van der Meulen&Co. on Curacao, Dutch West Indies without supplying the year. Brig-sloop of the Cruizer-class launched at the Portsmouth Dockyard, England on 17 May 1813, sold in 1832, with a builders measurement of 385 tons and an armament of 18 guns.