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Folios 222-223: James Nash, Regulating Captain, Leith Rendezvous. Reports the arrival...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2228/75
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- 1803 Aug 20
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Folios 222-223: James Nash, Regulating Captain, Leith Rendezvous. Reports the arrival of the Revenue vessel Duchess of Montrose carrying volunteers from the Orkneys and Shetland. Encloses letters from Commander John Hancock of HMS Cruizer, one from the Sheriff Substitute of Orkney enclosing a copy of the resolution offering a local bounty to volunteers for the Navy, and a list of prizes escorted by HMS Cruizer.
Folios 224-225: enclosed with folios 222-223. Letter dated 18 August 1803 from Robert Nicolson, Sheriff Substitute of Orkney, Kirkwall, to Regulating Captain James Nash. Acknowledges the letter delivered by Captain Graham, which was laid before a meeting of Gentlemen of the County and encloses the resolution which was passed raising the bounty for volunteers for the Navy to five guineas. This has been successful in raising a large number of men.
Folios 226-227: enclosed with folios 224-225. Copy dated 11 August 1804 of the resolution passed at a meeting of 10 named Heritors of the County of Orkney and signed by Malcolm Laing, presiding, raising the bounty for Navy volunteers to five guineas for Able Seamen, four guineas for Ordinary Seamen and three guineas for Landsmen.
Folio 227: enclosed with folios 222-223. Letter dated 14 August 1803 from Commander John Hancock, HMS Cruizer, Larwick [Lerwick] Bay, to Regulating Captain James Nash, Leith. He is sending 22 men in the Revenue schooner Duchess of Montrose, some raised in Shetland, some pressed by his own officers and also any men raised in Orkney. There are also a large number of men aboard HMS Ethalion and HMS Chiffone taken from Greenland ships.
Folio 228: enclosed with folios 222-223. Note, unsigned, listing various prizes under the control of HMS Cruizer in Brassa Sound on 14 August 1803, including French and Dutch East and West India vessels, a Liverpool Guineaman, a Workington brig retaken from Dantzig and a large ship captured while on passage from Amsterdam to Archangel.
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