Colin Kemp, from Portsmouth, has fundraised nearly £70,000 for the memorial to the West Africa Squadron. He has offered the work to Portsmouth City Council, Gunwharf Quays, and the city's naval ...

He was probably recruited at Freetown in Sierra Leone - the base of the West Coast of Africa Squadron which patrolled 3,000 miles of coastline from Senegal to the Congo, stopping, searching and ...

First, as regards "the vessels of the African squadron spending an unusual time at Madeira, Cape Verde and Canary Islands." During the time that I was on the Coast of Africa the only vessels that ...