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Folios 279-280: Edward Pellew. HMS Indefatigable, Falmouth. Reporting that he sent...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2316/120
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This record is about the Folios 279-280: Edward Pellew. HMS Indefatigable, Falmouth. Reporting that he sent... dating from 1798 June 10 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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- 1798 June 10
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Folios 279-280: Edward Pellew. HMS Indefatigable, Falmouth. Reporting that he sent HMS Cleopatra and Childers and Captain Pellew in pursuit of the French privateers, captured one and retaken 2 of her prizes. He has been ordered to lookout between Scilly and Iceland for vessels laden with arms for Iceland. He believes that HMS Herate retook the sloops captured in the Bristol Channel. He has not had the chance to put Thomas Fletcher on shore.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Cap P129
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Letters from Captains, Surnames P: 1798, numbers 1-150. (Described at item level)
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