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Folio 214-215: Robert Barrie, HMS Pomone, Spithead. Reports departing company with...

Catalogue reference: ADM 1/1537/132

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This record is about the Folio 214-215: Robert Barrie, HMS Pomone, Spithead. Reports departing company with... dating from 1806 Dec 3 in the series Admiralty, and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Correspondence and Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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ADM 1/1537/132
Date
1806 Dec 3
Description

Folio 214-215: Robert Barrie, HMS Pomone, Spithead. Reports departing company with HMS Plantagenet on 1 December 1806 during a gale. The ships mast was damaged possibly by a lightning strike. Made course for Torbay but driven further eastwards and had to bear up for anchor and unable to join Captain Bradley and HMS Plantagenet. During the night of the 1st, James Silcock, a boy, was washed overboard and drowned.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Cap B132
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12783221/

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Letters from Captains, Surnames B: 1806, numbers 1-300. (Described at item level)

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