Royal Navy West Africa Squadron

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Royal_Navy_West_Africa_Squadron
GPTKB entity
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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:military_unit
gptkbp:activeYears 1808–1867
gptkbp:baseOfOperations gptkb:Sierra_Leone
gptkbp:branch gptkb:Royal_Navy
gptkbp:capturedShips over 1,600 slave ships
gptkbp:conflict gptkb:Atlantic_slave_trade
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkbp:disbanded 1867
gptkbp:establishedBy gptkb:Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom
gptkbp:freedSlaves approximately 150,000 people
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Royal Navy West Africa Squadron
gptkbp:nickname gptkb:Preventive_Squadron
gptkbp:notableCommander gptkb:Commodore_Sir_Charles_Hotham
gptkb:Commodore_Sir_George_Collier
gptkb:Commodore_Sir_William_Jones
gptkbp:notableShip gptkb:HMS_Black_Joke
gptkb:HMS_Fair_Rosamond
gptkb:HMS_Hydra
gptkb:HMS_Myrmidon
gptkb:HMS_Saracen
gptkbp:primaryMission suppression of the transatlantic slave trade
gptkbp:relatedEvent gptkb:Abolition_of_the_Slave_Trade_Act_1807
gptkbp:relatedOrganization gptkb:British_and_Foreign_Anti-Slavery_Society
gptkbp:responsibility gptkb:West_African_coast
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Slave_Trade_Act_1807
gptkb:Abolition_of_the_slave_trade
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6