HMS Growler (1841)

HMS Growler was a paddle-driven sloop laid down in Pembroke and completed at Chatham on 20 July 1841.

HMS Growler was ordered under PW1840 along with other Driver-class paddle sloops.

On 31 March 1842, HMS Growler was assigned to the South East Coast of America Station to combat the slave trade.

HMS Growler was re-assigned to the West Africa Squadron in September 1844. The vessel was involved in a scheme to relocate liberated Africans from Sierra Leone to the Caribbean, arriving in Trinidad in December 1847. 150 men, 37 women and 254 children former captives survived the journey, although 45 Africans died on the journey.