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1 print : black and white ; image 15 x 23 cm
1. H.M.S. London at anchor off Zanzibar -- 2. Boat of H.M.S. London boarding a slave dhow.
Circular numbered image set inside a larger numbered image. Artist unknown.
Detached from: The graphic, Dec. 17, 1881, page 609.
Captained by Charles J. Brownrigg, the British naval ship H.M.S. London and her crew made several patrols aimed at hindering the slave trade and, on 3 December 1881, caught up with a slave dhow captained by Hindi bin Hattam. This dhow had around 100 slaves on board and was transporting them between Pemba and Zanzibar. Captain Brownrigg led a boarding party to release the slaves but bin Hattam's men then attacked the sailors, killing Brownrigg and some of his party before sailing away.