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Folio 214: John Simpson, HMS Coquette, off Barnstable. Reporting that due to an error...

Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2532/65

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This record is about the Folio 214: John Simpson, HMS Coquette, off Barnstable. Reporting that due to an error... dating from 1812 Oct 5 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 1/2532/65
Date
1812 Oct 5
Description

Folio 214: John Simpson, HMS Coquette, off Barnstable. Reporting that due to an error in reckoning and strong SW winds has been obliged to put Captain Coore, Aide-de-Camp to Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost with the dispatches ashore here. Will proceed to Milford Haven to land the mail and then to Plymouth Sound.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Cap S669
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Open Document, Open Description
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Navy
Armed Forces (General Administration)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C20703109/

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

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