Snap, 1847
Type: Tender ;
Purchased: a former Brazilian slave steamer she was taken into the service on 4 May 1847 ;
Disposal date or year : 1851
Disposal Details : Broken up
Notes:

4 May 1847 late slaver Cacique, captured and purchased into the service from the officers and crew of the Penelope for �1,731 : 5s : 6d. less expenses. She was renamed Snap.

Circa 1 Sep 1849 tender to the Centaur steam frigate, on the coast of Africa, had arrived Ascension some months previously in a very leaky condition and was sent to St Pauls de Loando to be hove down and refitted. She arrived early August in a wretched state, with several feet of water in her hold, &c. Carpenters from the Centaur and Britomart had been sent to repair her, and she departed Loando for Ascension on 1 Sep.

I suspect that her ship's company would have been made up, at least initially by the crews of the Penelope and later, from the Centaur, and thus will be born on the books of those ships, although I would have thought that the pay and muster lists for the mother ships would note the absence of officers and men when absent on duty from the mother ship, thus when the Snap perhaps captured a slave vessel the acquisition would probably show on the books as having been made by the Penelope or Centaur, as appropriate.

2 Apr 1851 It is reported that the Snap, used as a tender to the flag ship, on the West Coast of Africa, has been broken up.