Colonial Despatches

The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871

HMS Swift, 1835-1866

HMS Swift was a Packet Brig of the Royal Navy; it was commanded in the Pacific by Commander William Cornwallis Aldham.1

1. Peter Davis, HMS Swift (1835), The Victorian Royal Navy (website). http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=2145

Mentions of this vessel in the documents

O'Brien-Stafford, Augustus Stafford to Merivale, Herman 4 November 1852, CO 305:3, no. 10161, 296.