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Thanks so very much for this. Really helpful to see what was happening at this time. I have been trying to work out why he would have jumped ships a lot and also looking at the records of the ships to see if I can work things out. From what I can work out, he must have left England on the Cornelia o...

An ancestral uncle George Hopkins was baptised 2 April 1790 at Curry Rivel, Somersetshire, son of Thomas Hopkins and Martha Hewlett. I am please looking for further information about his career and the ships he served on in the Royal Navy between 1808 and 1811. His 1808 attestation papers (ADM 157/5...