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Folios 235-236: George Ralph Collard, HMS Minerva, off Cape Finistere. Is sending...

Catalogue reference: ADM 1/1645/83

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ADM 1/1645/83
Date
1806 Apr 26
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Folios 235-236: George Ralph Collard, HMS Minerva, off Cape Finistere. Is sending a copy of his letter to Eliab Harvey, Rear Admiral of the Blue.

Folios 237-238: enclosure with folios 235-236. Letter dated 26 April 1806 from George Ralph Collard, HMS Minerva off Cape Finistere, to Eliab Harvey, Rear Admiral of the Blue. He was in Finistere Bay preparing to cut off some small craft laying under the town with the gun brig HMS Conflict, under Lieutenant J B Batt. A French privateer lugger rounded the Cape and after a chase of 60 miles was boarded by Lieutenant Batt. She proved to be a 14-gun, 52 man lugger called the Finistere, commanded by Michelle Durre. She left Corunna that morning and had made no captures, and was intending to cruise off Oporto for British convoys. He commends Lieutenant Batt's conduct.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Cap C296
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Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12794803/

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