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Folios 269-272: Richard Lee, HMS Serpent, the Downs. Vice Admiral Payton ordered...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2059/112
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This record is about the Folios 269-272: Richard Lee, HMS Serpent, the Downs. Vice Admiral Payton ordered... dating from 1794 Mar 18 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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- 1794 Mar 18
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Folios 269-272: Richard Lee, HMS Serpent, the Downs. Vice Admiral Payton ordered HMS Serpent to cruise off Calais and Dunkirk to seize any shipping carrying contraband into the ports. He gives a detailed account of his activites and the methods he used to seize the neutral vessels which he sent into an English port for arbitration.
Folio 273: enclosed with folios 269-272. Richard Lee, HMS Serpent. A list of ships seized in the English channel while carrying contraband into enemy ports. Noris Natuns, Christiansand to Calais, carrying deals. Maria, Gotenburg to Lisbon, carrying wheat and rye. Clara Sophia, Cork, carrying herrings to Leghorne. Amelia, Schedam to Barcelona, carrying wheat.
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- Cap L39
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