HMS Saracen (1831)

HMS Saracen was a Cherokee-class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy.

Launched 30 January 1831 at the Plymouth Dockyard, at Plymouth, England, this vessel held a gun deck of eight 18-Pounder carronades and two 6-Pounder bow chasers.

[1] Henry Worsley Hill served as her commander starting on 15 March 1841.

[2] Saracen was part of the West Africa Squadron, involved in anti-slavery operations against the Atlantic slave trade from west Africa to the Americas.

[2] A list of captures of slave trade ships include: The Saracen was later remembered in a postage stamp from Ascension Island.