Active Duty
In 1823 Wellesley carried Sir Charles Stuart de Rothesay on a mission to Portugal and Brazil to negotiate a commercial treaty with Pedro I of Brazil. The artist Charles Landseer, brother of the famed artist Edwin Henry Landseer, accompanied the mission.
Between 25 November 1824 and 30 January 1825, her tender, the Wolf took several prizes, for which prize money was payable.
Wellesley was the flagship of Rear Admiral Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland in the Mediterranean between 1827 and 1830.
Read more about this topic: HMS Wellesley (1815)
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