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Keith to Lord St Vincent, off Ferrol, 10 August 1799, reporting the combined fleets off Finisterre heading for Brest

Lord Keith (George Viscount Keith 1746-1823). Keith to Lord St Vincent, off Ferrol, 10 August 1799, reporting the combined fleets off Finisterre heading for Brest

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Object Details

ID:	CRK/8/39
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Phillipps-Croker
Date made:	1799-08-10 - ?
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	1 item
Parts:	A series of corresponce to Nelson from people whose surname begins with K including Captain Lord Kerr, Captain William Kelly and Captain Richard Goodwin Keats, 1796 - 1805. (Manuscript) Captain R[ichard] Jones (d.1829) to Nelson, HMS DILIGENCE in the Downs, 2 September 1801, request for a survey (Manuscript) (CRK/8/23) Captain R[ichard] Jones (d.1829) to Nelson, HMS DILIGENCE off Cape Gris Nez, 14 September 1801, request for a discharge of a young man (Manuscript) (CRK/8/24) Captain R[ichard] Jones (d.1829) to Nelson, Bath, 1803, offering to raise seamen (Manuscript) (CRK/8/25) Samuel Jordon to Nelson, Batson's Coffee house, 21 August 1801, requesting a certificate of service in HMS ST GEORGE (Manuscript) (CRK/8/26) Captain Richard Goodwin Keats, to Nelson, HMS SUPERB, no date, Thursday, with extract of a letter from HRH Duke of Clarence recommending a young man, Mr Fisher (Manuscript) (CRK/8/27) Captain Richard Goodwin Keats, to Nelson, HMS SUPERB, no date, note concerning Mr William Clark Fisher, Master's Mate on board Bomb Vessel THUNDERER commanded by Captain George Cocks Esqr, formally first lieutenant of HMS PRINCE GEORGE (Manuscript) (CRK/8/28) Captain Richard Goodwin Keats, to Nelson, HMS SUPERB Bay of Algiers, 17 June 1804, list of Sicilians, Neapolitans and other Italians with English passports taken by the Algerines since Malta came under British protection and still in slavery at Algiers, and those taken prior to that time (Manuscript) (CRK/8/29) Captain Richard Goodwin Keats, to Nelson, HMS SUPERB Bay of Algiers, 16 June 1804, (in Italian) requesting return of ships (Manuscript) (CRK/8/30) Captain William Kelly [former Captain of HMS GIBRALTAR], London, 1 July 1803, [awaiting court martial], sending copy of the facts (Manuscript) (CRK/8/31) Captain William Kelly [former Captain of HMS GIBRALTAR], Plymouth, 31 August 1803, enclosing minutes of his court martial, recommending his nephew, Marward Kelly, on HMS GIBRALTAR (Manuscript) (CRK/8/32) Captain William Kelly [former Captain of HMS GIBRALTAR], Plymouth, 10 December 1803, following the court martial, St Vincent declined any help, recommending his lieutenant Mr Templer (Manuscript) (CRK/8/33) Captain William Kelly [former Captain of HMS GIBRALTAR], Plymouth, 28 January 1804, copy of minutes sent for information not opinion, recommending his nephew, his son Magnus to go with Sir Edward Pellew (Manuscript) (CRK/8/34) Captain William Kelly [former Captain of HMS GIBRALTAR], Plymouth, 1 August 1804, with recommendation from the Duke of Kent for George Rainsworth (Manuscript) (CRK/8/35) Van Kempen to Nelson, Naples, 6 March 1803, thanking him for recommendation via Mr Gibbs to Sir Alexander Ball and General Villettes, requesting a position in Sardinia, recommending the anchorage of the Maddalena Islands (Manuscript) (CRK/8/36) Captain Lord Kerr to Nelson, HMS FISGARD at sea, 19 December 1804, reporting the capture of the French ship LE TIGRE, having 14 guns and 40 men, from Cayenne to Cadiz with Mahogany and Dye wood, and Master and crew of captured English brig (Manuscript) (CRK/8/37) Keith to Nelson, HMS QUEEN CHARLOTTE, off Cape de Gall, 19 July 1799, informing him that the combined fleets passed Gibraltar on 9th at night, that he must leave Naples to the protection of Portugal and Russia (Manuscript) (CRK/8/38) Keith to Lord St Vincent, off Ferrol, 10 August 1799, reporting the combined fleets off Finisterre heading for Brest (Manuscript) (CRK/8/39) Keith to Nelson, off Genoa, 3 May [1800], news of French army, ordered the PRINCESS CHARLOTTE for him but the ship stopped at Leghorn, news of French fleet at Brest (Manuscript) (CRK/8/40) Keith to Nelson, HMS MINOTAUR, off Genoa, 10 May 1800, directions following French operations in Egypt. (Manuscript) (CRK/8/41) Keith to Nelson, Aboukir Bay, 5 July 1801, with congratulations, Cairo has given in, his dislike of the climate (Manuscript) (CRK/8/42) Keith to Nelson, East Cliff near Ramsgate, 3 December 1803, recommending George Scott, a mis[shipman] in HMS VICTORY, ships at the Nore, his view of invasion (Manuscript) (CRK/8/43) Killiwick to Nelson dined at his country house and in London, chartered ships which sailed from Trieste on declaration of war, seized and taken to Ancona, uninsured cargo including cases of wine on board for him and Lady Hamilton, sailed in an Imperial [Austrian] ship, requesting for passage to England with convoy (Manuscript) (CRK/8/44)

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