Memo about the approval of the Lords Commissioners of the [British] Admiralty following a positive report on an inspection of the H.M.S. sloop Zebra, under the command of Charles Gowan Lindsay, that was conducted in Sierra Leone on 10 April 1865. Memo includes a short note of congratulations from A.P. Eardley Wilmot, Commodore Commanding. Written from aboard the Rattlesnake at Ascension, an Island garrison of the British Admiralty in the Atlantic Ocean.