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Folios 421-422: Watkin Owen Pell, HMS Menai. Encloses a letter from acting Lieutenant...

Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2349/176

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This record is about the Folios 421-422: Watkin Owen Pell, HMS Menai. Encloses a letter from acting Lieutenant... dating from 1815 Sep 13 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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ADM 1/2349/176
Date
1815 Sep 13
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Folios 421-422: Watkin Owen Pell, HMS Menai.

Encloses a letter from acting Lieutenant Charles Goldsmith and recommending him as a deserving officer.

Folios 423-424: enclosures with folios 421-422. Appointment dated 1 August 1815 by Edward Griffiths, Rear Admiral of the White Squadron, of Charles Goldsmith to act in the post of Lieutenant which has been recently added to the complement of HMS Menai.

Folios 425-426: enclosures with folios 421-422. Letter dated 13 September 1815 by Charles Goldsmith, HMS Menai, Hampton Roads to the Admiralty.

Requests that the copy of his acting appointment be forwarded and hoping his service will lead them to confirm the appointment.

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Former department reference
Cap P452
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Open Document, Open Description
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