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by jon_ystrad
Mon Feb 26, 2024 3:41 pm
Forum: Ships
Topic: Prize Ships 1798-1802,etc
Replies: 4
Views: 162

Re: Prize Ships 1798-1802,etc

You can message the Prize Court project at the National Archives, they'll reply in a week/10 days quite comprehensively.
[email protected]

Also have a look at the Caird Library, I'm not sure what they've got
https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/caird-library
by jon_ystrad
Mon Feb 19, 2024 5:41 pm
Forum: Ships
Topic: Byng's 1755 Channel force
Replies: 6
Views: 588

Re: Byng's 1755 Channel force

Hi, thank you for that list which is good to have! From what I have read Hawke's squadron came in sick, whilst Byng was trying to get his squadron for sea, which implies not a great deal of crossover of ships. In the chapter Hot Water, page 175 of The Execution of Admiral John Byng as a Microhistory...
by jon_ystrad
Mon Feb 19, 2024 5:41 pm
Forum: Ships
Topic: Byng's 1755 Channel force
Replies: 6
Views: 588

Re: Byng's 1755 Channel force

Hi, thank you for that list which is good to have! From what I have read Hawke's squadron came in sick, whilst Byng was trying to get his squadron for sea, which implies not a great deal of crossover of ships. In the chapter Hot Water, page 175 of The Execution of Admiral John Byng as a Microhistory...
by jon_ystrad
Tue Feb 06, 2024 4:54 pm
Forum: Ships
Topic: Byng's 1755 Channel force
Replies: 6
Views: 588

Re: Byng's 1755 Channel force

Brilliant, thank you

I wasn't sure such a thing existed!

HOPEFULLY I can get to Kew in the early Summer

Best Regards
Jon
by jon_ystrad
Thu Feb 01, 2024 6:47 pm
Forum: Ships
Topic: Byng's 1755 Channel force
Replies: 6
Views: 588

Byng's 1755 Channel force

Hi Does anyone have the full list of ships Byng commanded in the Channel campaign Oct-Dec 1755? I've mention of the ships with the most damage when they came in in late November And I've seen a note of supposedly 17 line ships But I have never seen, nor can I find, a list of what all the ships were ...
by jon_ystrad
Fri Nov 17, 2023 9:30 am
Forum: 18th Century
Topic: Galga vs 6 english privateers - help!!!
Replies: 12
Views: 3116

Re: Galga vs 6 english privateers - help!!!

Thank you, I will see if I can find the photographs I took of the page.

I just remember looking at it and thinking "Huh, where is the engagement?"
by jon_ystrad
Thu Nov 16, 2023 6:34 pm
Forum: Naval Officers and Crew
Topic: Henry Digby and Alcmene
Replies: 3
Views: 2140

Re: Henry Digby and Alcmene

You can search the National Archives Discovery online, and order copies of documents from them.

I found the attached if it is of use, which is the summary of this document
by jon_ystrad
Thu Nov 16, 2023 4:55 pm
Forum: Privateers
Topic: Marlborough?
Replies: 1
Views: 1143

Re: Marlborough?

My bad. I assumed because of the way Hervey talked about it and because it was in italics it was a ship, and the only ship of the name I could find was a privateer

BUT

It is a fort or advanced bastion of St Phillip's Castle at Mahon

Sorry!
by jon_ystrad
Wed Nov 15, 2023 6:40 pm
Forum: Privateers
Topic: Marlborough?
Replies: 1
Views: 1143

Marlborough?

Augustus Hervey's Journal makes some reference to a ship called Marlborough at Port Mahon, 1756. Is this a privateer, or a decommissioned warship, or something else?
by jon_ystrad
Wed Nov 15, 2023 6:20 pm
Forum: Privateers
Topic: Nuestra Señora del Rosario - 1743
Replies: 3
Views: 1841

Re: Nuestra Señora del Rosario - 1743

Hi, there are the kindle pages from British Warships of the Age of Sail [BWAS - Rif Winfield) for the Hampshire The relevant text:- 9.4.1742. In 1743 under Capt. Edward Legge, still in Bay of Biscay; took Spanish privateer Nuestra Señora del Carmen 22.4.1743. In 9.1743 under Capt. George Murray, wit...