Adelaide, 1848
Type: Schooner ; late slaver ;
Purchased : into the service on 3 Nov 1848 for �263 9s. 0d. ;
Disposal date or year : 9 Oct 1850
Disposal Details : Wrecked on Banana Island, W. Africa. Lieut. Jno. Lyons Macleod
BM: 140 tons
Notes:

25 Jan 1848 slave vessel Adelaide detained by the Devastation and subsequently purchased into the Service 30 Nov 1848, retaining her original name.

Feb 1850, information received by HM Commissary Judge, ad interim, at Sierra Leone that a slave trader, Paul Faber, was reported to be active in the River Pongos, and was going to dispose of some slaves shortly : this was passed on to the Senior Officer of that division, Captain Marsh of the Heroine, who sent the schooner Adelaide, Lt. MacLeod, to check out the story. However, having investigated the report and spoken with Mr. Faber, Lt. MacLeod considered the rumour a ruse to take patrolling RN vessels away from their present cruising grounds, and therefore unfounded. Lt. MacLeod returned to his cruising ground, between the Banana Islands and the Sherbro.

However, a few months later the news arrived to the effect that 240 slaves had been embarked in a Brazilian vessel, who paid $15,000 to Faber.