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A Twedle; Ship's name: HMS Drake; Pay book number: SB 27; Rank: Landsman; Relation:...
Catalogue reference: ADM 27/10/203
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This record is about the A Twedle; Ship's name: HMS Drake; Pay book number: SB 27; Rank: Landsman; Relation:... dating from 1804-1808 in the series Navy Board, and Admiralty, Accountant General's Department: Registers of Allotments.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- ADM 27/10/203
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1804-1808
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A Twedle; Ship's name: HMS Drake; Pay book number: SB 27; Rank: Landsman; Relation: Wife (name not stated); When Alloted: 1804; Remarks: discharged 20 February 1805 to HMS Sussex.
Denis McCarthy; Ship's name: HMS Drake; Pay book number: SB 10; Rank: Landsman; Relation: Mother (name not stated); When Alloted: 1805; Remarks: discharged 3 April 1806.
John Addington; Ship's name: HMS Drake; Pay book number: SB 34; Rank: Able Seaman; Relation: Mother (name not stated); When Alloted: 1805; Remarks: deserted 26 June 1805.
T Tudaway; Ship's name: HMS Drake; Pay book number: SB 41; Rank: Ordinary Seaman; Relation: Wife (name not stated); When Alloted: 1805; Remarks: discharged 7 July 1808 to HMS Combatant.
C Leicester; Ship's name: HMS Drake; Pay book number: SB 43; Rank: Ordinary Seaman; Relation: Mother (name not stated); When Alloted: 1805; Remarks: discharged 7 July 1808 to HMS Combatant.
George Hill; Ship's name: HMS Drake; Pay book number: SB 49; Rank: Landsman; Relation: Mother (name not stated); When Alloted: 1805; Remarks: deserted 1 July 1807.
T Mahoney; Ship's name: HMS Drake; Pay book number: SB 11; Rank: Landsman; Relation: Mother (name not stated); When Alloted: 1805; Remarks: discharged 7 July 1808 to HMS Combatant.
Nicholas Pearcy; Ship's name: HMS Drake; Pay book number: SB 57; Rank: Landsman; Relation: Mother (name not stated); When Alloted: 1805; Remarks: discharged 7 July 1808 to HMS Combatant.
Robert Stephens; Ship's name: HMS Drake; Pay book number: SB 71; Rank: Able Seaman; Relation: Wife (name not stated); When Alloted: 1805; Remarks: deserted 1 May 1806.
John Miller; Ship's name: HMS Drake; Pay book number: SB 73; Rank: Able Seaman; Relation: Mother (name not stated); When Alloted: 1805; Remarks: discharged 7 July 1808 to HMS Combatant.
O McCarthy; Ship's name: HMS Drake; Pay book number: SB 86; Rank: Able Seaman; Relation: Wife (name not stated); When Alloted: 1805; Remarks: discharged 7 July 1808 to HMS Combatant.
John Brown; Ship's name: HMS Drake; Pay book number: ML 11; Rank: Private Royal Marine; Relation: Mother (name not stated); When Alloted: 1805; Remarks: discharged 16 May 1805 to HMS Renard.
William Willson; Ship's name: HMS Drake; Pay book number: SB 56; Rank: Landsman; Relation: Mother (name not stated); When Alloted: 1805; Remarks: deserted 20 June 1805?.
George Pinkerton; Ship's name: HMS Drake; Pay book number: SB (not stated); Rank: Quarter Gunner; Relation: Wife (name not stated); When Alloted: 1806; Remarks: blank.
Edward Causfield; Ship's name: HMS Drake; Pay book number: SB 197; Rank: Landsman; Relation: Mother (name not stated); When Alloted: 1806; Remarks: Sir Francis Drake and posted there (date not given).
Richard Bunsell; Ship's name: HMS Drake; Pay book number: SB 172; Rank: Ordinary Seaman; Relation: Wife (name not stated); When Alloted: 1806; Remarks: Sir Francis Drake and posted there (date not given).
William Sidman; Ship's name: HMS Drake; Pay book number: SB 194; Rank: Able Seaman; Relation: Wife (name not stated); When Alloted: 1806; Remarks: Sir Francis Drake and posted there (date not given).
John Unthank; Ship's name: HMS Drake; Pay book number: SB 170; Rank: Able Seaman; Relation: Mother (name not stated); When Alloted: 1806; Remarks: Deserted 26 February 1806 in Penang.
James Harding; Ship's name: HMS Drake; Pay book number: SB 173; Rank: Ordinary Seaman; Relation: Mother (name not stated); When Alloted: 1806; Remarks: Sir Francis Drake and posted there (date not given).
John Talbot; Ship's name: HMS Drake; Pay book number: SB 179; Rank: Able Seaman; Relation: Wife (name not stated); When Alloted: 1808; Remarks: blank.
Henry Spendlove; Ship's name: HMS Drake; Pay book number: SB (not stated); Rank: (not stated); Relation: (not stated); When Alloted: (not stated); Remarks: blank.
Lee Griffin; Ship's name: HMS Drake; Pay book number: SB (not stated); Rank: (not stated); Relation: (not stated); When Alloted: (not stated); Remarks: blank.
George Bruce; Ship's name: HMS Drake; Pay book number: SB (not stated); Rank: (not stated); Relation: (not stated); When Alloted: (not stated); Remarks: blank.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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