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Folio 243: Mr Chapman. Copy of the Navy Board instructions to Mr Scott, Captain of...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2020/81
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This record is about the Folio 243: Mr Chapman. Copy of the Navy Board instructions to Mr Scott, Captain of... dating from 1799 May 9 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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- 1799 May 9
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Folio 243: Mr Chapman. Copy of the Navy Board instructions to Mr Scott, Captain of HMS Porpoise. Orders sending him from Port Jackson to New South Wales to take stores and guns to Governor Hunter and to work out with him the best way the Officers and the crew can reurn to England. Full pay will be continued.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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