Between August 1814 and February 1815, the Royal Navy seized slave cargos from the "Venus", the "Manuella", the "Atrevido," and the "Candelaria." It deposited 1,318 liberated Africans on Tortola, which the government designated for free black settlement. In 1819, a Portuguese slave ship, the "Donna Paula", was wrecked upon the reef at Anegada. The ship's crew and 235 slaves were saved from the wreckage, and taken to the islands. Other shipwrecks off Anegada were reported in 1817 and 1824. Liberated Africans sometimes died due to having suffered harsh conditions in the Middle Passage.