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Folios 93-94: Thomas Cochrane, HMS Arab near Horsley Bar. Is enclosing a letter to...

Catalogue reference: ADM 1/1639/30

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This record is about the Folios 93-94: Thomas Cochrane, HMS Arab near Horsley Bar. Is enclosing a letter to... dating from 1804 Oct 18 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 1/1639/30
Date
1804 Oct 18
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Folios 93-94: Thomas Cochrane, HMS Arab near Horsley Bar. Is enclosing a letter to Lord Keith informing him that there is a privateer cruising off the mouth of the Forth.

Folios 95-96: enclosure with folios 93-94. Letter dated 18 October 1804 byThomas Cochrane, HMS Arab at sea, to Lord Keith. Coming back from The Stadt where the Arab has been protecting trading to Archangel, he fell in with a large lugger privateer close to the Isle of May and he gives an extract giving reasons why the privateer was not taken.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Cap C430
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Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C18478505/

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ADM 1

Admiralty, and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Correspondence and Papers

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Letters from Captains, Surnames C: 1804, numbers 401-699. (Described at item level)

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