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Swallow, 1824
Type: Brig ; Armament 4
Launched : Purchased 1824 ; Disposal date or year : 1836
Notes:

At sea 7 Aug 1826 At lat. 44. long. 52, spoke to the Betsey.

Dec 1827 packet based on the Falmouth station : Commanding officer: Lt. Thomas Baldock.

Plymouth 5 Aug 1829 In Hamoaze.

Penzance 1 Jan 1830 Arrived.

Falmouth 26 Jul 1830 Sailed for Jamaica and St. Domingo &c.

Jul 1830 Falmouth, Sloop of war fitted as a packet.

Falmouth 24 Oct 1831 Arrived from Buenos Ayres (13 Aug), Monte Video (19th), Rio (1 Oct).

Falmouth 16 Feb 1832 Arrived from the Leeward Islands (14th).

Spring 1833 has been taken into dock at Plymouth, with the Forester, to be re-coppered and her defects made good.

1 Jan 1834 Employed as a Packet.

At sea, in lat. 27.8, long. 90.20, 5 Nov 1834 On the 11th September (supposed should be October) we sailed from Vera Cruz, and on the 16th encountered a very severe hurricane, which obliged us to cut away the fore and mizen masts by the board, with the loss of all our boats, &c., bowsprit and main-topmast badly sprung : but on the next day we had all jury-masts fitted, and in a fair way of progress : foul winds, but in hopes in about 10 days we shall arrive at Havannah.

Havannah 17 Nov 1834 arrived to refit herself having encountered a hurricane on her passage from Vera Cruz.

15 Jan 1835 Arrived Falmouth.

Portsmouth 13 Jun 1835 it is reported that the Swallow has arrived with mail from the West Indies, and .

Falmouth 9 Jun 1835 arrived from Jamaica (29 Apr), St Thomas's (5 May), and Barbadoes (7 May).

Rio De Janeiro 30 Sep 1835 sailed for Falmouth.