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Folios 199-200: Samuel Chambers, HMS Port Mahon, Spithead. HMS Elephant will have...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/1647/72
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This record is about the Folios 199-200: Samuel Chambers, HMS Port Mahon, Spithead. HMS Elephant will have... dating from 1807 Sept 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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- 1807 Sept 3
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Folios 199-200: Samuel Chambers, HMS Port Mahon, Spithead. HMS Elephant will have informed the Admiralty that they left the homeward bound Jamaica convoy on July 4. He explains that this was due to them losing their bowsprit and foremast in heavy weather. HMS Port Mahon was forced to refit in Bermuda and then escorted two merchant ships to England.
Folio 201: enclosed with folios 199-200. Details of the Baltic convoy escorted from Bermuda to England by HMS Port Mahon.
Folio 202: enclosed with folios 199-200. Orders dated 27 July 1807 by Edward Hawkes, Senior Officer, Bermuda, issued to Samuel Chambers, HMS Port Mahon.
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