Exeter Local Maritime Archives Project

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RP/1/55

Letter relating to the French fleet at Torbay and to the sighting of it off the Dodman, 1743

1743 to 1743 Cornwall Record Office correspondence Devon navy
T/2198

Letter relating naval news from Plymouth, including references to privateers and prizes, 1744

1744 to 1744 Cornwall Record Office correspondence navy
FS/3/401

Letters (copies) concerning prize money, 1745

1745 to 1745 Cornwall Record Office correspondence
K/121

Warrant for the payment of rent, Pendennis Castle, 1745

1745 to 1745 Cornwall Record Office None
DC/ELO/40

Receipt for cannon and shot bought for the security and defence of East Looe, 1747

1747 to 1747 Cornwall Record Office weapons
CN/3296,3297

Acts and proclamations relating to the navy, 1748-1782

1748 to 1782 Cornwall Record Office None
EN/1797

Log book of HMS Surprize (from England to the coast of Guinea), 1749-1750

1749 to 1750 Cornwall Record Office navy ships Africa
ANTONY/CC/FF/17

Letter, including naval references, 1750s

1750 to 1750 Cornwall Record Office correspondence
B/LISK/343

Orders to constables and others to impress the unemployed as soldiers and to search for straggling seamen, 1753-1759

1753 to 1759 Cornwall Record Office navy recruitment impressment pressganging
CM/1590

Order (copy) relating to straggling seamen, 1755

1755 to 1755 Cornwall Record Office mariners
AD/59/7

                                    Correspondence of Samuel Wallis, commander of the Swan, Portmahon and Prince of Orange, 1756-1762

1756 to 1762 Cornwall Record Office ships
ANTONY/PC/LIB/37/1

 Letters, including some relating to naval battles off India and to the trial of Admiral Byng, 1756-1757

1756 to 1757 Cornwall Record Office correspondence navy war
ANTONY/BZ/29/8

                 Extracts from papers of Captain William Foster of the Antigallican, 1757

1757 to 1757 Cornwall Record Office ships
ANTONY/PC/LIB/9/9

    Letters relating to naval matters, written by John Spencer in Calcutta, 1757-1758

 

1757 to 1758 Cornwall Record Office correspondence navy India
B/LAUS/196

Borough of Launceston accounts, including a reference to celebrations on the taking of Cape Breton by Admiral Boscawen, 1757-1758

1757 to 1758 Cornwall Record Office navy battles Europe
GHW/G/34

                                 Appointment of John Hood as Captain of the 100th Company of Marines, 1757

1757 to 1757 Cornwall Record Office None
T/1540

Case papers, including a note about a man dying on board the Looe Man of War, 1757

 

1757 to 1757 Cornwall Record Office deaths ships
CA/B/43/43

List of ships destroyed and taken in North America, 1758

1758 to 1758 Cornwall Record Office navy battles
CM/1518

Letter, "Lord Ansons Fleet has not yet appeared in sight of this coast”, 1758

1758 to 1758 Cornwall Record Office correspondence
R/5572

Note of the purchase of land for the defence of Stoke docks, Plymouth, 1758

1758 to 1758 Cornwall Record Office security