Battle of Cape St Vincent--Thompson, Admiral Sir Charles NOTEBOOK RECORDING THE CONDITION OF HMS VICTORY also four other ships of the line, HMS Lord Egmont, HMS Namur, HMS Culloden, and HMS Britannia, detailing the daily regime on board, and the provisions and stores available to quartermasters, gunners, boatswains, carpenters, surgeons, and pursers, the first ten pages being an incomplete report on a sixth ship, in a single hand, 58 pages, plus blanks, probably 1797 (paper watermarked 1794), stab-stitched in paper wrappers, upper wrapper spotted and torn; [with:] two documents signed by Samuel Marshall of HMS Pegase, both addressed to Charles Thompson as Commander of HMS Edgar, the first ordering him to put himself under Marshall's command, the second with 20 coloured illustrations of ships' pennants, 2 pages, folio, docketed, 1 February to 22 April 1787; [also with:] document listing "Defects of His Majesty's Ship Duke Jn Holloway Esq. Commander", signed by Holloway, 1 page, folio, 14 November 1797; note to Thompson giving directions for wearing "The Blue and White Ribband", originally accompanying the ribbon, 1 page, folio, n.d.; memorandum book recording pay received by Admiral Sir Charles Thompson, signed by John Scott, 2 pages only, the remainder of the volume blank, September 1797 to March 1799, 8vo; and one later document
Battle of Cape St Vincent--Thompson, Admiral Sir Charles NOTEBOOK RECORDING THE CONDITION OF HMS VICTORY also four other ships of the line, HMS Lord Egmont, HMS Namur, HMS Culloden, and HMS Britannia, detailing the daily regime on board, and the provisions and stores available to quartermasters, gunners, boatswains, carpenters, surgeons, and pursers, the first ten pages being an incomplete report on a sixth ship, in a single hand, 58 pages, plus blanks, probably 1797 (paper watermarked 1794), stab-stitched in paper wrappers, upper wrapper spotted and torn; [with:] two documents signed by Samuel Marshall of HMS Pegase, both addressed to Charles Thompson as Commander of HMS Edgar, the first ordering him to put himself under Marshall's command, the second with 20 coloured illustrations of ships' pennants, 2 pages, folio, docketed, 1 February to 22 April 1787; [also with:] document listing "Defects of His Majesty's Ship Duke Jn Holloway Esq. Commander", signed by Holloway, 1 page, folio, 14 November 1797; note to Thompson giving directions for wearing "The Blue and White Ribband", originally accompanying the ribbon, 1 page, folio, n.d.; memorandum book recording pay received by Admiral Sir Charles Thompson, signed by John Scott, 2 pages only, the remainder of the volume blank, September 1797 to March 1799, 8vo; and one later document
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