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Folios 255-258: Sir Henry Heathcote, HMS Scorpion off Minorca. Gives a [very] detailed...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/1947/90
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Folios 255-258: Sir Henry Heathcote, HMS Scorpion off Minorca. Gives a [very] detailed response to being told that their Lordships are dissatisfied with his statement to Admiral Stoppard about the defects of HMS Lion. The ship had been between Bombay and the Persian Gulf. The Shear had began to break. It was deemed in Bombay that the ship could not remain there but needed to go home. His carpenter was able to report that HMS Albion broke in exactly the same way. He hopes this statement and the enclosed documents will refute the accusations made against. He abhors litigation but if their Lordships are not satisfied he asks for a Court martial[!]
Folios 259-260: enclosure with folios 255-258. Letter dated 2 February 1813 by Sir Henry Heathcote, HMS Scorpion off Port Mahon. Letter enclosing the above letter.
Folio 261: enclosure with folios 255-258. Repoprt dated 7 July 1809 by William Fothergill, Master of HMS Nassau, Andrew Davidson, Carpenter of HMS Diomede, Robert Beatson, Carpenter of HMS Nassau and John Haway, Carpenter of HMS Diomede. Report as instructed by Robert Campbell, Commander in St Helena on the condition HMS Lion. Shows significant defects.
Folio 262: enclosure with folios 255-258. List dated 22 December 1811 by O .Ormerod, Carpenter of HMS Lion, Rable Bay of the defects of HMS Lion which mentions the ship breaking in her Shear.
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Letters from Captains, Surnames H: 1813, numbers 1-250. (Described at item level)
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