archerArcher, 1849-?
According to this private letter, the archerArcher was a British Gov[ernment] Steamer
upon which Cadell had requested, from Lytton, free transport from England to Vancouver
Island. In the same despatch and included documents Merivale expresses that Cadell
was a restless
man and that free passage on the archerArcher was out of the question.
archerArcher was a screw-propulsion sloop of 14 guns, and it had a dramatic career: it was involved
in a variety of naval actions, captured slaver ships, endured several cases of mass-sickness,
and spent most of its time on the politically volatile west coast of Africa.1
- 1. Archer, 1849, Index of 19th Century Naval Vessels.
Mentions of this vessel in the documents