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Folios 259-260: Robert Watson, Portsmouth. Responds to a letter enquiring when his...

Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2684/84

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This record is about the Folios 259-260: Robert Watson, Portsmouth. Responds to a letter enquiring when his... dating from 1797 Sept 26 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 1/2684/84
Date
1797 Sept 26
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Folios 259-260: Robert Watson, Portsmouth. Responds to a letter enquiring when his health will permit him to join his ship, and advises that he has not had any notification of being appointed to a new ship since he was superseded from HMS Isis. Asks whether he is supposed to rejoin HMS Isis or if he has been appointed to another vessel. Advises that his health is not good enough at present to join any ship and that he understood he was to remain in Portsmouth until the trails of the Mutineers of HMS Isis are finished.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Cap W94
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Open Document, Open Description
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C21100114/

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Letters from Captains, Surnames W: 1797, numbers 1-200. (Described at item level)

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