Definitions for "HMS Pelorus"
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HMS Pelorus is the designation which has been given to numerous ships of the Royal Navy.
HMS Pelorus was a 385 ton, 18 gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, constructed in Itchenor, England and launched on June 25 1808. It took part in the Napoleonic Wars, primarily as a blockade ship in the waters around Guadaloupe. In the early 1830s, when William Wilberforce's anti-slavery act went into effect, the HMS Pelorus became an anti-slaver ship.
HMS Pelorus was a 2,330 ton displacement, 21 gun corvette which was launched February 5, 1857 from the Devonport dockyard. It was captained at first by Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour, then by Henry Boys, and later William Henry Haswell, until it was decommissioned in 1868.