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Folios 122-123: Robert Dudley Oliver, care of Osborne Standert, Navy Office, London....
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2251/54
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This record is about the Folios 122-123: Robert Dudley Oliver, care of Osborne Standert, Navy Office, London.... dating from 1794 Nov 11 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 Nov 11
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Folios 122-123: Robert Dudley Oliver, care of Osborne Standert, Navy Office, London. Asks to dispense with passing accounts for HMS Terror as he was only in command of her for a few days.
Folios 124-125: enclosed with folios 122-123. Letter dated 11 November 1794 from Osborne Standert, Chief Clerk, Navy Office, London, to the Admiralty. Asks that Robert Dudley Oliver be excused from having to pass accounts for HMS Terror in order to draw his pay, as he only commanded her for five days before being moved to HMS Hazard.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Cap O34
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