Capture of Veloz Passagera | |||||||
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Part of the Suppression of the Slave Trade | |||||||
![]() HMS Primrose engaging Veloz Passagera. | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
![]() | Slave Trader | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
![]() | Jozé Antonio de la Vega | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
1 sloop-of-war | 1 ship | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
3 killed 12 wounded 1 sloop-of-war damaged |
43 killed 20 wounded 1 ship captured |
The Capture of Veloz Passagera was a single-ship action that occurred during the British Royal Navy's anti-slavery blockade of Africa in the early and mid 19th century. The sloop-of-war HMS Primrose, of 18 guns, under Captain William Broughton, captured the 20-gun Spanish slave ship Veloz Passagera, Jozé Antonio de la Vega, master.[1]