Growler was ordered under PW1840 along with other Driver-class paddle sloops,[2] laid down at Chatham Dockyard and launched on 20 July 1841.

[1][3] On 31 March 1842, Growler was assigned to the South East Coast of America Station to combat the slave trade.

[Note 1] In February 1845 she took part in Commodore William Jones's destruction of several barracoons at Dombocorro and elsewhere.

[6] The ship was involved in a scheme to relocate liberated Africans from Sierra Leone to the Caribbean, arriving in Trinidad in December 1847.

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