£200 - £300
A QUANTITY OF 18TH-19TH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT NAVAL EPHEMERA
comprising approximately thirty assorted documents spanning 1740-1820, mostly on official laid paper for routine orders, signatures include Hood, Keppel, St. Vincent, Haddock, Sidney Smith (French correspondence), Gambier and others, assorted hands and sizes; together with a bosuns pocketbook from Plymouth Dockyard c.1828 listing various crew names and jobs, one inscribed at present fitting the Adelaide, Morocco boards -- 3 x 4½in. (8 x 11.5cm.)
(A lot)
The Royal Adelaide (104) was built at Plymouth, laid down in 1819 and launched in 1828 when fitting out would have commenced.
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