40.
AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM SAMUEL, LORD HOOD
written on board BARFLEUR off Bagana Island 13th Jany 1809 and marked Private. Letter regarding the disorganised retreat of the British from Corunna Bay: By private letter of the 6th from Beresford he says the division he was in was much harassed. Many without shoes or stockings and some of the officers not better off..., signed off Yours most faithfully Sam’ L Hood in haste’. Written on single folded sheet of official laid paper with watermark, folded size -- 9¼ x 7¼in. (23.5 x 18.5cm.); modern transcript and biographical detail sheet for Hood contained in a plastic wallet
(3) £250-400 40 (part) 41. AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM ADMIRAL LOUIS-THOMAS DE VILLARET-JOYEUSE
written aboard his ship in the harbour at Brest and dated in the revolutionary calendar for 1er Messidor (19th/20th June) and addressed to Au Conseiller d’etat préfet Maritime a Brest (the maritime prefect), Caffarelli, reporting that the Spanish frigate La Solidad is not at full force and requests that the prise anglaise of nine carronades be allocated to it etc., on an official printed sheet of laid paper signed Villeret, folded measurements -- 9¾ x 7¼in. (25 x 18.5cm.)
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42 (part) 42. A NAVY OFFICE ARCHITECT’S SHEER PROFILE DRAUGHT FOR THE CONVERSION OF H.M.S. CEYLON TO A TROOPSHIP, C.1811
ink on paper with re-fit outlined in red, annotated on the reverse Ceylon of 38 guns as fitted for a Troop Ship -- 20 x 50in. (51 x 127cm.) framed and glazed; together with a Georgian land-pattern sword in scabbard (poor condition) (2)
Built by Pitcher of Northfleet for the East India Company and launched as Bombay 27th April, 1803, she was re-named Ceylon in 1808. Captured by the French frigates Bellone, Minerve and Victor in July 1810 and taken to Mauritius and used as a prison ship, she was re-captured when the British took Mauritius in December 1810 and sold to the Royal Navy in 1811, which refitted her for use as a troop transport, in which capacity she was employed between 1813 and 1815. She was laid up between 1816 and 1832 when she was hulked at Malta and used as a receiving ship until sold from the service in 1857.
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