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Folios 189-190: Arthur Farquhar, HMS Desiree, off the Texel. Responds to an order...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/1808/68a
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This record is about the Folios 189-190: Arthur Farquhar, HMS Desiree, off the Texel. Responds to an order... dating from 1811 May 8 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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Date (When the record was created)
- 1811 May 8
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Folios 189-190: Arthur Farquhar, HMS Desiree, off the Texel. Responds to an order from Richard Curry, Captain, HMS Roebuck to state to the Admiralty the descriptions of Thomas Topping and John Griffin who escaped from the Le Velocifer prize, while sailing up the river Thames. Advises that the 2 men were only on board for a couple of minutes before the Prize entered the port and there was not opportunity to take their descriptions but annexes copies of remarks, regarding the 2 men, by the Prize Master.
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