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Folios 471-472: Charles Lock, HMS Inspector, White Booth Roads, the Humber. Reports...

Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2062/195

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This record is about the Folios 471-472: Charles Lock, HMS Inspector, White Booth Roads, the Humber. Reports... dating from 1797 May 25 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 1/2062/195
Date
1797 May 25
Description

Folios 471-472: Charles Lock, HMS Inspector, White Booth Roads, the Humber. Reports he has discovered that four of the crew, Thomas Potts, Thomas Staggs, Matthew Rush and William Valentine, were planning a mutiny and would have tried to seize the ship and sail her to France but for the presence of HMS Redoubt and HMS Nonsuch nearby. He sent the four men as prisoners to the Redoubt and Captain George Dundas subsequently moved them to the Nonsuch. Asks for a court martial on the four men.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Cap L259
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Public Record(s)
Language
English
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Open Document, Open Description
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12824137/

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