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Folio 465: Samuel Colquitt, HMS Princess, Liverpool. Receipt of letter enclosing...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/1645/160
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This record is about the Folio 465: Samuel Colquitt, HMS Princess, Liverpool. Receipt of letter enclosing... dating from 1806 June 24 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 1/1645/160
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1806 June 24
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Folio 465: Samuel Colquitt, HMS Princess, Liverpool. Receipt of letter enclosing an application from Hunter & Co of Greenock for the discharge of James Killing, late Master of the Clyde, and directions to discharge him if this is found to be true. States that he has shown him the register of the Clyde and fully confirms what is stated in the enclosure. He has been discharged.
Folios 466-467: enclosure with folio 465. Letter dated 17 June 1806 from James Hunter & Co, Greenock, to the Lords Commissioners fo the Admiralty. Their ship the Clyde, James Killing Master, sailed from Greenock in October [1805] bound for Newfoundland and 2 days after was captured by 2 French national; corvettes and sunk. The crew were taken to Cayenne and kept there til March [1806] when they were sent on a cartel to Surinam. Mr Killing got a passage in a ship bound for Liverpool where he arrived a few days ago intending to make out the necessary documents to enable them to recover their loss from the underwriters. He had saved the ship's register. Before he got away from Liverpool he was impressed and sent on board HMS Princess under Captain Colquitt. Their agent waited on Captain Cumberland, the Regulating Officer, but he would not release Mr Killing without an order from the Admiralty.
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Cap C372
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English
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Open Document, Open Description
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