Owen, HMS Clyde, off Boulogne, to Markham, on enemy knowledge of ship movements, on expectations of the Cabinet of the rockets, (annotated: 25 August 1806, Admiralty, I communicated to Lord H[owick] the fears which you entertain that precipitancy in the attack may render it fruitless, he agrees with you…there can be no eagerness in the cabinet on this head’

22 August 1806, Owen, HMS Clyde, off Boulogne, to Markham, on enemy knowledge of ship movements, on expectations of the Cabinet of the rockets, (annotated: 25 August 1806, Admiralty, I communicated to Lord H[owick] the fears which you entertain that precipitancy in the attack may render it fruitless, he agrees with you…there can be no eagerness in the cabinet on this head’

Record Details

Item reference: MRK/101/7/63
Catalogue Section: Personal collections
Level: ITEM
Date made: 1806
Creator: Owen, Edward William Campbell Rich
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London