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Folios 228-229: Charles Claridge, Plummer Street, City Road. Recounting his personal...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/1663/81
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This record is about the Folios 228-229: Charles Claridge, Plummer Street, City Road. Recounting his personal... dating from 1812 Aug 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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- 1812 Aug 24
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Folios 228-229: Charles Claridge, Plummer Street, City Road. Recounting his personal history since the Battle of the Nile in 1798, involving appointment as acting lieutenant on HMS Defence and then, by Lord St Vincent to command HMS Entreprenante; but that, as a result of long illness and failure to produce full accounts, his pay has been docked, leaving him in great distress,"bordering on starvation".
Folio 230: enclosure with folios 228-229. Admiralty note referring to removal of above letter from Charles Claridge.
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- Cap C343
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- English
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ADM 1
Admiralty, and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Correspondence and Papers
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Letters from Captains, Surnames C: 1812, numbers 251-497. (Described at item level)
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