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captained by Hindi bin Hattam. This dhow had around 100 enslaved people on board and was transporting them between Pemba and Zanzibar. Captain Brownrigg led a boarding party to release the enslaved people but bin Hattam's men then attacked the sailors, killing Brownrigg and some of his party before
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or Sidis) serving on board. There were also Zanzibari and Arab interpreters and cooks from Portuguese Goa (India). In 1880 Lieutenant Charles Stewart Smith, an officer on another ship, led patrols which captured seven dhows and 185 enslaved people. In 1883, three years later, Lieutenant Smith was
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In late 1881, while the vessel was at Zanzibar, it suffered damage of a nature such that repairs were urgently required. The type of wood desired to make the repairs was teak, which "could not readily be procured in the open market." The Sultan was, however, known to have a store of the desired
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timber and so he was requested to assist with supplying it. This he did and the repairs done. However, the Sultan refused to accept any payment for the supplies. In the eyes of the commander of HMS
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in the area, serving as a central repair depot, hospital and storage ship for many smaller steam screw boats. At this time there were Africans from West Africa (Kroomen or Krumen) and East Africa (
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led a force to Wete on Pemba and, after a short battle, took a mortally wounded bin Hattem (Hindi-bin-Khartoum) prisoner before returning to Zanzibar.
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Captain Charles J Brownrigg to Liet. Colonel SB Miles, 22 Aug 1881. (enclosed in (Lt. Colonel Miles to Granville, 21 Nov 1881. FO 84/1601)
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The final entry in the ship's log is dated 22 January 1883. Captain Luxmoore writes "Paid ship off" "Sent ships company to transport
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herself and her crew made several patrols aimed at hindering the slave trade and, on 3 December 1881, caught up with a slave
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Bay, off the east coast of Africa, but in March 1878 she was recommissioned to assist in the
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House of Commons papers by Great Britain. Parliament. (1883), vol. 66, p. 189.
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The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850.
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in passage to England". In 1884 she was sold and broken up.
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Newly released slaves on board H.M.S. London, circa 1880.
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Victorian-era ships of the line of the United Kingdom
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HMS London

Zanzibar
United Kingdom
Rodney-class
ship of the line
bm
Full-rigged ship
carronades
second-rate
ship of the line
Royal Navy
Chatham Dockyard
Konstantin Battery
Sevastopol
Crimean War
hulk
Zanzibar
suppression of the slave trade
Seedies
Sir John Kirk
dhow
Sir Lloyd William Mathews
19 January 1875 the bombardment of Mombasa by HMS Nassau and Rifleman and boats of HMS London, Illustrated London News
HMS Nassau
Rifleman
Illustrated London News
HMS London in Zanzibar circa 1876.
Pinnace attached to HMS London chasing a dhow in 1881
A pinnace probably attached to the London for chasing slave ships.

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