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Folios 108-109 James Nash, HMS Saturn, He acquaints that Lieutenant Richard John...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2236/46
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This record is about the Folios 108-109 James Nash, HMS Saturn, He acquaints that Lieutenant Richard John... dating from 1813 Nov 28 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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Folios 108-109 James Nash, HMS Saturn, He acquaints that Lieutenant Richard John Nash left this place ten days since in HMS Zephyr on his way to join HMS Pandora and that he would have procured the moment he received his letter of appointment to the above sloop had he not been detained by a bad arm occasioned by a hurt he received when in the act of saving the lives of two women upset in a boat alongside the Salvador [HMS Salvador del Mundo] of which he acquainted Captain Thomas Stamp of HMS Pandora, Lieutenant Richard John Nash must have joined some days ago.
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