3-070-498 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Captain C. J. Brownrigg, R.N., killed by Arab slave traders at Pemba, Zanzibar, 1881. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. Jackson and Co. '...of Captain Charles James Brownrigg, the late commander of H.M.S. London, and senior officer on the East African station for the suppression of the contraband slave trade. His death, on the 2nd December, in a conflict with the Arab crew of a slave dhow on the coast of the isle of Pemba, has been more than once spoken of in our Journal. Captain Brownrigg...was appointed to the Challenger,...the flag-ship on the Australian station...during the last two years of her time was chiefly employed on the coast of New Zealand, in consequence of the native disturbances...For his valuable services during the Zulu War he was awarded the medal. He was appointed at his own request to H.M.S. London in June, 1880, and during the eighteen months he had held the command he had captured 2500 tons of dhows and liberated more than 500 slaves. He was killed on Dec. 3, 1881, in an action with a slave dhow, receiving twenty-one wounds, and fell shot through the heart. The Country and the Service have lost a valuable and gallant officer'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.