> In theory she was only sailing locally, so what she might have been doing in the Gambia I do not know. Apart from occasional problems with the slave trade ISTR that a cruiser was earmarked each year to spend time at the Gambia keeping the peace when the seasonal trade in gum commenced, a trade which attracted a number of merchantmen at a certain time each year. I suspect that the thinking was that if a slave trader slipped into the river whilst pretending to be a gum trader and encouraged the local chiefs to start slave trading again the natives would head for the hills and legitimate trade would dry up as there would be little or no labour to tend the crops and go out fishing etc. Paul On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:54:24 +0100 (BST), Peter Klein <klein84@btinternet.com> wrote: >For what it's worth, according to Lloyd's Register for 1841/42 Captain Bazin >appears to have been master of the Eleanore (with an "e" on the end), a brig >built in Guernsey in 1840, 167 tons, and owned by Blondell of Guernsey. She >appears again in 1842/43, this time under a captain Makernot, and later capt. >Wakeham (1843/44) etc. In theory she was only sailing locally, so what she >might have been doing in the Gambia I do not know. 50° 33' N, 2° 26' W http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval.html