Portsmouth Dockyard

Copy of an extract of a letter from Commander Hughes 12 March 1734 suggesting the stone found embedded in the keel of DEFIANCE when in North Dock Portsmouth became embedded while the ship was in Chatham Dock

Record Details

Item reference: ADM/Y/P/130
Catalogue Section: Public records: local records of the Royal Navy and of the Merchant Navy
Level: ITEM
Date made: 1734-01-01 - ?; 1734-03-12
Creator: HM Dockyard, Portsmouth
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London