Folios 448-449: Edward Grey, Regulating Captain, Hull. He has received a letter from...

Folios 448-449: Edward Grey, Regulating Captain, Hull. He has received a letter from Lieutenant Lessly with information of the defects of the tender and requests for various necessary stores. The tender was never completed when first fitted and the Navy Commissioners were informed and replied that the tender could not be caulked until she arrived at a Kings Port. Captain Grey asks for a replacement tender and for the current tender to be sent to a Kings Port for the defects to be repaired. It is a great inconvenience to be without a tender for the newly raised men. In the finest weather it would take a whole day to go tho the ships of war at Grimsby. He suggests that if the tender's decks and upperworks were caulked, the cost would be little more that at a Kings Dockyard. Also if Lieutenant Lessly could go to Sheerness in the Lynn Tender he might be supplied with the necessary stores. Captain Grey encloses a list of the men raised, list of Officers and Gangs under his orders and a three year protection for Robert Emmerson. Emmerson was impressed yesterday and was threatened to be taken to be sworn before a Magistrate. The latter confessed that he had been nine years at sea and was a bound apprentice to avoid the impress. There is another young man with an indenture binding for three years, but under examination was found to have been a sea for fourteen years and had received five guineas per month on board a vessel before he was impressed.

Folio 450: enclosure with folios 448-449. List dated 24th December 1803 by Edward Grey, Regulating Captain, Hull to the Admiralty. The list of 26 named Officers and man belonging to the Gangs under Captain Grey.

Folio 451: enclosure with folios 448-449. A note by the Admiralty, dated 26th December to persons in he Admiralty. Written in the diagonal top right corner, concerning the defects and proposed repairs and management of the tender. It is proposed that the caulking should be done by the ship’s carpenter and those crews making the proposals should be impressed as punishment for their attempted fraud. comments on the matter of stores, caulking and suggests the men responsible are impressed as a punishment for the attempted fraud.

Folio 452: enclosure with folios 448-449. certificate of Protection, dated 13 July 1803 by three Commissioners for the Admiralty to all Commanders and Officers of HM’s ships, Press masters and all concerned. Robert Emmerson was bound Apprentice to Robert Darley of Selby. The reverse note dated 23 December 1803 by Edward Grey, Regulating Captain, Hull Rendezvous to the Admiralty certifies that Robert Emmerson on examination states that he has been at sea for nine years, is an able seaman and made claims to avoid the imprest.

Folio 453: enclosure with folios 448-449. A Daily Report, dated 24th December 1803 by Edward Grey, Regulating Captain, Hull to the Admiralty. HMS Helder, Snipe, Gellykhied, Sheerness tender are in the Humber

Folios 454-455: enclosure with folios 448-449. Letter dated 19th December 1803 by Lieutenant Lessly, Sheerness tender, Hull to Edward Grey, Regulating Captain, Hull . He informs that the Sheerness tender never had her warrant Officers stores fully completed when fitted out at Deptford. The Boatswain and Carpenters need various item. He requested the necessaries on the 6th December, but was told he needs to travel to a Kings Port for ths.The tender is in great need of caulking affecting the Offivers cabins. They cannot sleep dry and there is no tarpauline large enough during this seseaon of bad weather to protect the impressed men. The tender is staionary at Hull and Lieutenant Lessly asks if the repairs my be carried out at Hull. The Warrant Officers Stores have been ordered byKeith Maxwell of HMS Hound.

Folios 456 a and b: enclosure with folios 448-449. A Report dated 23rd December 1803 by Lieutenant Andrew Lessly to Edward Grey, Regulating Captain, Hull. A list of the stores required for caulking and Carpentets stores.