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Folios 351-352: George Hewson, HMS La Fleche [HMS Fleche], Yarmouth Road. States...

Catalogue reference: ADM 1/1941/127

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This record is about the Folios 351-352: George Hewson, HMS La Fleche [HMS Fleche], Yarmouth Road. States... dating from 1810 May 9 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 1/1941/127
Date
1810 May 9
Description

Folios 351-352: George Hewson, HMS La Fleche [HMS Fleche], Yarmouth Road. States that HMS La Fleche [HMS Fleche] is fourteen men short of complement and requests orders for her crew to be completed from the Flag Ship at this Roadstead. The Old Party of Royal Marines were likewise exchanged 9per Orders) and in lieu he was supplied with new recruits from Woolwich and as the number of sick on board amount to five, the ship must be considered in a very deficient state. He applied to Sir [Henry Edwin] Stanhope requesting he would complete her complement but he referred him to Admiral [John] Wells at the Nore. He has made application to him but no men were to be had so on arriving here to try to make good the deficiency, so that he may as ordered by Sir Richard John Strachan [(6th Baronet of Thornton, Kincardine)].

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Cap H171
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
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Open Document, Open Description
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Letters from Captains, Surnames H: 1810, numbers 4-250. (Described at item level)

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