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Folios 194-195: John Tower, HMS Curacao, Spithead. Responding to the request to explain...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2615/67
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This record is about the Folios 194-195: John Tower, HMS Curacao, Spithead. Responding to the request to explain... dating from 1815 May 11 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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- 1815 May 11
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Folios 194-195: John Tower, HMS Curacao, Spithead. Responding to the request to explain himself regarding the charges about his conduct contained in an application by Mr Hedgcock for a Court Martial. Explains that he did not give chase to a frigate and a sloop of war, sighted just off Corsica, as he had every reason to believe they were friends, namely HMS Termagant, Captain [Manley?] and HMS Imperieuse and that as there were also five of HM ships in the area it would have been reprehensible to chase them during a gale and delay his carrying out his orders to proceed to Toulon to relieve the frigates on guard duty. Describes the behaviour of Mr Hedgcock on board HMS Curacao and the reasons he was Invalided for Mental Derangement and that it would have been wrong to issue him with Certificates of Conduct or give him presents received from the Court of Naples, various Ambassadors and officers of a French frigate who had visited the ship. Lord Oxford also mentioned.
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- Cap T83
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