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Folios 32-33: Woodley Losack, HMS Helena, Cork Harbour. He reports that William Radford...

Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2074/15

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This record is about the Folios 32-33: Woodley Losack, HMS Helena, Cork Harbour. He reports that William Radford... dating from 1805 July 21 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 1/2074/15
Date
1805 July 21
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Folios 32-33: Woodley Losack, HMS Helena, Cork Harbour. He reports that William Radford entered himself on board HMS Helena from the Ainsly [Ainsley] Privateer and at Plymouth received his Bounty as an Able Seaman nor does it appear to be his wish to quit the Service.

Folios 35-36: enclosure with folios 32-33. Letter dated 11 July 1805 by E Handy, 27 Half Moon Street, to the Admiralty. Requests the discharge of Mr Radford now on HMS Helena and taken from Ainsley [Ainsly] Privateer out from Liverpool on which he was First Lieutenant.

Folio 36: enclosure with folios 32-33. Letter dated 15 July 1805 by William Radford, [HMS Helena], to Woodley Losack, HMS Helena. He states that his friends have misunderstood him and he did not request a discharge from the Service just a discharge into the Admirals ship to wait a birth in another in another HM Ship.

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Language
English
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