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Ok! That was small quiz :) Now the questions Was there "Mestaer's Dock" in Deptford? There is a correspondence that Perter E. Mestaer want to built c1806 a 74 gun ship,but it was refused as the commision thought his dock is too short. Accordingly to late David Lyon she was started as " Bombay "? Wha...

Salisbury and Winchester Journal - Monday 29 August 1808 A seventv-four gun ship was launched yesterday from Mestaer's Dock, at Deptford. She was christened " The Drake ", in the presence the Princess of Wales, the Duchess Brunswick, Lord Hood, Mr. Angerstein, Mr. Tlicrnton, &c. She went the in good...

Now we have also a picture of a Spanish packet brig

http://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas20/ca ... show/20675

Cuentas de la Administración de Veracruz
Archivo General de Indias

ES.41091.AGI/17//CORREOS,248A
otas (1) Adjunta los gastos realizados en la reparación del bergantín correo nombrado 'El Sandoval'

I have still nothing about technical data of our brig, but http://foro.todoavante.es/ Bergantín correo llamado Nuevo Conde de Floridablanca . Construido en los astilleros mejicanos de Tlacotalpan en 1790 por contrato de don Esteban Bejarano bajo la dirección de don Luis de Tosal. Medía 81 pies de es...

I have Correos marítimos españoles: Francisco Garay Unibaso Mensajero, Ediciones, S.A. Vol I. Correos marítimos españoles a la América Española (Yndias Occidentales) de 1514 a 1827 246 pages 1988 Vol II Correos marítimos españoles a la América Española Cuba, Puerto Rico y Sto. Domingo . De 1827 a 18...

Many thanks!

that is interesting, at least as a basis:

http://somo.blogcindario.com/2009/07/00 ... -1802.html

That is interesting

http://somo.blogcindario.com/2009/07/00 ... ostro.html

Simply everything is logical SANDOVAL (i) sank 1787 a new ship was built or purchased named NUEVO SANDOVAL and then renamed SANDOVAL (ii) Comercio exterior de Veracruz, 1778-1821: crisis de dependencia Javier Ortiz de la Tabla Ducasse - 1978 import Vera Cruz 12 Jun 1788 arrived brig "El Sandoval" fo...

Comercio exterior de Veracruz, 1778-1821: crisis de dependencia Javier Ortiz de la Tabla Ducasse - 1978 import Vera Cruz 4 May 1790 arrived brig "Conde Floridablanca" form Havana, Jose Bonifacio de la Hera (cargo valued 161'4 pesos) 25 May 1792 arrived brig "El Alvarado" form Havana,Jose Bonifacio d...