Augustus Leopold Kuper
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Admiral Sir Augustus Leopold Kuper was a Royal Navy officer known for his commands in the far east.
Franco-Anglo-Japanese conference on the Semiramis, 2 July 1863. Forefront: French interpreter Frederik Blekman, Japanese interpreter. Background (from left to right): Three Japanese governors of Yokohama, Duchesne de Bellecourt, daimyō Sakai-Hida-no-Kami, Colonel Neale (British representative in Japan), Admiral Jaurès, Admiral Kuper
HMS Pelorus (1808)
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HMS Pelorus was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop of the British Royal Navy. She was built in Itchenor, England and launched on 25 June 1808. She saw action in the Napoleonic Wars and in the War of 1812. On anti-slavery patrol off West Africa, she captured four slavers and freed some 1350 slaves. She charted parts of Australia and New Zealand and participated in the First Opium War (1839–1842) before becoming a merchantman and wrecking in 1844 while transporting opium to China.
HMS Pelorus, as a ship-sloop, ca. 1830
Yacht Xarifa, ex-Segunda Theresa, 1835, by Thomas Goldsworthy Dutton, after a sketch by Nicholas Matthew Condy, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
HMS Pelorus at Sydney on 16 June 1838
HMS Pelorus at low water, 1840, by Owen Stanley