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Folio 191: Captain William Bligh, HMS Porpoise, Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope. Is...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/1538/20D
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- 1806 May 30
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Folio 191: Captain William Bligh, HMS Porpoise, Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope. Is sending reports on the state and condition of HMS Porpoise, Woolwich, Adamant and Rolls, accounts of the sick in hospital and prisoners of war.
Folio 192: Enclosure in folio 191: Printed form of the state and condition of HMS Adamant, Captain John Stiles, 20th May 1806.
Folio 193: Enclosure in folio 191: Weekly account of the prisoners of war at Cape Town, 30th May 1806.
Folio 194: Enclosure in folio 191: Printed form of the state and condition of HMS Woolwich, Captain Francis Beaufort, 25th May 1806.
Folio 195: Enclosure in folio 191: Caryer Vickery, Surgeon. Account of the sick and wounded at Cape Town, 11th May 1806.
Folio 196: Enclosure in folio 191: Printed form of the state and condition of HMS Porpoise, 1st Captain William Bligh, 2nd Captain Joseph Short, Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope, 25th May 1806.
Folio 197: Enclosure in folio 191: Printed form of the State and condition of HMS Rolls, John Joseph Overton, Master, between 17th and 25th May.
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Letters from Captains, Surnames B: 1806, numbers 301-350. (Described at item level)
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