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Various papers: Request for convoy to Hamburg (1717); Estimates for work on the Admiralty...

Catalogue reference: ADM 1/5114/17

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This record is about the Various papers: Request for convoy to Hamburg (1717); Estimates for work on the Admiralty... dating from 1717-1769 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 1/5114/17
Date
1717-1769
Description

Various papers:

  • Request for convoy to Hamburg (1717);
  • Estimates for work on the Admiralty garden (1717-1718);
  • Reasons for not commissioning commanders of merchantmen (1718);
  • James Moodie, covering advice from Sir N Lloyd (13 April [1718]);
  • General George Carpenter, recommending officers of the Minorca Vice-Admiralty court (15 January 1719);
  • Passenger lists of yachts carrying the King and suite to Holland [in French] (1719);
  • Navy Board minute on rival claims by John Randall and Mr Cumberland to have invented a method of steaming plank (27 November 1719);
  • Estimate of cost of building 20 and 24 gun ships (1719);
  • Charles Carkesse of the London Custom House, concerning a Mediterranean pass allegedly obtained under false pretences (12 October 1723);
  • Strength of the Navy in 1688, 1702, 1714 and 1727 compared (undated [1727 or later]);
  • Precedents for the distribution of prizes and booty between army and Navy, annexed to the instructions of Vice-Admiral Holburne and Lord Loudon commanding an expedition against Louisbourg (1757);
  • Captain Arthur Forrest, concerning arms and uniforms of the Marines of the Dunkirk (28 April 1769).

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The National Archives, Kew
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Various papers: Request for convoy to Hamburg (1717); Estimates for work on the Admiralty...

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