An item reported the arrival at Willemstad, Curacao on 24 May 1848 of the American corvette USS Albany commanded by J. Kelly coming from La Guayra.(1)
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1. A sloop laid down at the New York Navy Yard in 1843, launched on 27 June 1846, commissioned on 6 November 1846, disappeared at sea after she was sighted on 29 September 1854. With a displacement of 1.081 tons/1.064 long tons were her dimensions 49,83 x 9,80 x 4,0 metres or 163’6” x32’2”x 13’. With a crew numbering 210 men and an armament consisting of 4-20cm/8” guns and 18-32pd guns.
