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Folios 138-139: Bartholomew Roberts, HMS Espiegle, Yarmouth. Reports that a French...

Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2398/63

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This record is about the Folios 138-139: Bartholomew Roberts, HMS Espiegle, Yarmouth. Reports that a French... dating from 1795 Aug 20 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 1/2398/63
Date
1795 Aug 20
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Folios 138-139: Bartholomew Roberts, HMS Espiegle, Yarmouth. Reports that a French lugger privateer was seen in Smith's Knowl, a sighting confirmed by the Black Joke lugger, which he has attempted to find. He returned yesterday to convoy the trade bound to Hamburgh. He has detained and sent into Yarmouth the Den Unge Hendricke of Bergen bound to France laden with fish and also the ann Martha from Hambro bound to Genoa laden with allum, beef, pitch, nails, pease, beans, iron and hair powder.

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Cap R69
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