Placentia-class sloop
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Placentia-class sloop
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The Placentia class was a class of two sloops of the Royal Navy. John Henslow designed the small sloops for coastal patrol duties off Newfoundland. Their role was "to protect the fisheries and inquiring into abuses. The vessels would sit in the harbour of St Johns over the winter, and then in the spring would be fitted out to visit the ports on the station as soon as the ice had melted. Jahleel Brenton, who would command Trepassey in 1793, provides an interesting description of her and her siste
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