Exeter Local Maritime Archives Project

Entry Detail

Code: D/Z447
Entry Text:

photocopies of documents relating to Capt. William Twitchett, including apprenticeship indenture to William Madder of Wivenhoe, 6 June 1840; master's certificate of service for 14 years in the British Merchant Service in the foreign trade, 29 March 1851; certificate of discharge from the Norman, 5 May 1866; testimony to the bad health and death of William Curtis Twitchett after serving on the west coast of Africa, 7 February 1869; correspondence with the Superintendent, Mercantile Marine Office, Southampton, 16 & 24 March 1964

Date Range: 1840 to 1869
Keywords: training navy ships illness
Location: Southampton Archives