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Folios 599-600: William Cumberland, HMS Leyden, Cawsand Bay, Plymouth. As per orders...

Catalogue reference: ADM 1/1651/229

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This record is about the Folios 599-600: William Cumberland, HMS Leyden, Cawsand Bay, Plymouth. As per orders... dating from 1808 Apr 2 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 1/1651/229
Date
1808 Apr 2
Description

Folios 599-600: William Cumberland, HMS Leyden, Cawsand Bay, Plymouth. As per orders dated 1 March 1808. He proceeded in HMS Leyden to Admiral Sir Charles Collins Fleet and after severe weather delivered the bullocks and part of the provisions to the Fleet. On 15 March 1808 Admiral Sir Charles Collins ordered him to return to Plymouth with Eighty Seven Portugese Emigrants Supernumeraries from Lisbon, List enclosed. Reports that HMS Leyden makes from seven to eight inches of water an hour and more when she labours, she is very leaky on all her Decks, Store Rooms and Fore Magazine. We arrived on the 2 April 1808. Reports that he reduced John Tandy, Master at Arms for disobedience and repeated drunkenness.

Folios 601-602: enclosure with folios 599-600. A list of 87 Portugese Emigrants on board HMS Leyden, William Cumberland Esq. Captain, in Cawsand Bay. March 1808. [List gives Name, Age, Place of Birth and Profession].

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Cap C506
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
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Open Document, Open Description
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Letters from Captains, Surnames C: 1808, numbers 251-549. (Described at item level)

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