£240
A NAVAL MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK, 1823-26
mostly listing Watch, Quartering and Station bills, ink and pencil, including Peace Establishment Watch Bill, quarters for the officers and crew of a frigate of 42-guns, and Watch Bill for H.M.S. Boadicea, 1826, ink and watercolour Signal flags for a launch and pinnace, barge, gig, and cutter, plus a flag chart in 3 columns, disbound and lacking spine; together with “Historical Memoirs of Admiral Sir Charles Stirling” extracted from the Naval Biography of Great Britain and bound with 6 other works and extracts by Stirling; 3 Navy Lists for 1814, 1833 & 1845, bound into one volume, with some annotations; and a 4-page letter from Captain Charles Stirling aboard H.M.S. Arrogant in the Baltic in 1855 to his uncle discussing naval and family matters
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Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Stirling (1760-1833) was in action at Ushant (1794), Cape Finisterre (1805), the Rio de la Plata and the Anglo-American War of 1812. Court martialled in 1813 “for accepting payment for protecting foreign seamen”, his defence that he had acted on humanitarian grounds was not accepted and he was found guilty. His subsequent appeal was upheld and he was restored to flag rank but did not return to sea.
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