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Folios 259-260: Edward Thornborough, HMS Robust, Lough Swilly. Reports that HMS Robust...

Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2598/97

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This record is about the Folios 259-260: Edward Thornborough, HMS Robust, Lough Swilly. Reports that HMS Robust... dating from 1798 Dec 3 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 1/2598/97
Date
1798 Dec 3
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Folios 259-260: Edward Thornborough, HMS Robust, Lough Swilly. Reports that HMS Robust with the prize ship Hoche are ready to leave and the Revolutionaire and Doris will sail with them. Most of the wounded men have recovered and Lieutenant David Colby improving.

Folios 261-262: enclosed with folios 259-260. A list of defects of HMS Robust signed by Commander Edward Thornborough and Thomas Cole, Carpenter.

Folios 263-266: enclosed with folios 259-260. Two further copies of the defects of HMS Robust.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Cap T105
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Open Document, Open Description
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