HMS Landrail

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Landrail, 1860
Type: Gunvessel ; Armament 5
Launched : 28 Mar 1860 ; Disposal date or year : 1869
BM: 428 tons ; Displacement: 570 tons
Propulsion: Screw
Machinery notes: 80
Notes:

1860 North America and West Indies

23 May 1861 Portsmouth. Commissioned.

1 Jan to 15 Mar 1864 North America and West Indies Station. Number of Cases of Disease and Injury.

15 Mar 1864 Paid off.

Early Oct 1866 had taken the Governor of Sierra Leone to the Mellicouri River and to the Isles de Los. The crew were healthy.

14 Oct 1866 at Sierra Leone. Commander H.L.A.L. Maitland in command, was shortly to proceed to the Pongas River to investigate unsubstantiated reports regarding slave trading in the region and would then depart for the South Coast circa 18 Oct.