Colonial Despatches

Captain Sidney Grenfell served as lieutenant on several Royal Navy vessels before he commanded the Amethyst from July 8, 1856 to December 22, 1860, a period that included the vessel's time in the Pacific Northwest.1

• 1. Peter Davis, Sidney Grenfell R.N., The Victorian Royal Navy (website). http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=797; Peter Davis, HMS Amethyst (1844), The Victorian Royal Navy (website). http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=1054