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Folios 127-128: Cuthbert Collingwood, HMS Excellent, Spithead. Reports his arrival,...

Catalogue reference: ADM 1/1625/67

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This record is about the Folios 127-128: Cuthbert Collingwood, HMS Excellent, Spithead. Reports his arrival,... dating from 1798 Nov 28 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 1/1625/67
Date
1798 Nov 28
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Folios 127-128: Cuthbert Collingwood, HMS Excellent, Spithead. Reports his arrival, having left the fleet off Cadiz and touched at Lisbon to pick up water and provisions. He sailed from Lisbon on 14 November 1798, anchored in Torbay on the 27th and sailed the next day. Encloses a list of invalids brought from the fleet and from Lisbon, plus the Boatswain and Carpenter of HMS Aigle and two prisoners taken from a Spanish ship from the West Indies whom he believes to have been part of the mutinous crew of HMS Hermione. He also encloses [no longer present] a list of the ship's defects and is forwarding six packets from Admiral the Earl St Vincent.

Folios 129-130: enclosed with folios 127-128. List of 23 invalids received from the fleet off Cadiz, plus two warrant officers of HMS Aigle and two former crewmen of HMS Hermione, taken from a Spanish prize.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Cap C284
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Language
English
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Open Document, Open Description
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