British Navy

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=185 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="040b9c00dduajq.jpg"> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="70" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 76 WIDTH="66"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="76" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="66" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Falmouth Packet Archives 1688-1850</B></FONT>    |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Falmouth Packet Archives 16881850"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id173.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Health"><U>Health</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id175.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Steam "><U>Steam </U></A>   |   <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Freemasonry"><U>Freemasonry</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id188.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="HRH Prince of Wales Masonic Ceremony at"><U>HRH Prince of Wales & Masonic Ceremony at Truro Cathedral 1880 & 1887</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id124.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Cartels Prisoners"><U>Cartels & Prisoners</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id115.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lighthouses Navigation"><U>Lighthouses & Navigation</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id109.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Piracy "><U>Piracy </U></A>   |   <A HREF="id71.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Smuggling "><U>Smuggling </U></A>   |   <A HREF="id72.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Customs Excise"><U>Customs & Excise</U></A>   |   <B>British Navy</B>   |   <A HREF="id76.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Merchant Convoys"><U>Merchant Convoys</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id78.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="American Navy"><U>American Navy</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id77.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="France Navy, Privateers, Convoys"><U>France - Navy, Privateers, Convoys</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id108.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="French Pacquets"><U>French Pacquets</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id149.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Trinity House"><U>Trinity House</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id56.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Philatelic "><U>Philatelic </U></A>   |   <A HREF="id129.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Genealogy"><U>Genealogy</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id158.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dress of the Packet era"><U>Dress of the Packet era</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id117.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sailing (Racing)"><U>Sailing (Racing)</U></A></div> <div> British Navy</div> <div> <B>The navy is inexorably intertwined with the packet story. A few references follow; but there is a great deal of research required to cross-reference reports. Cuttings stored in a textual database (</B><B>Idealist</B><B>) are random word-searchable, and offer the reader a far more comprehensive source of information.  Whilst a result cannot be guaranteed, I will be pleased to </B><B>search</B><B> the packet archives in response to written requests.</B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>Please e-mail: </B></FONT>   <A HREF="mailto:falmouth.packet.archives@dial. pipex.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:falmouth.packet.archives@dial. pi"><U><U>falmouth.packet.archives@dial.pipex.com</U></U></A><U> </U></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1cd27c10.jpg" border=0 width="551" height="449" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Scan from The <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><I>Journal of Mary Nugent</I></FONT>, wife of the Governor of Jamaica, 1801-1805.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> SM 20/9/<B>1779</B>: Vice Admiral has made complaints to His Majesty of the <B>badness of the powder </B>which his fleet was provided with... [later trials, French powder proved 100 yards further with 24 lb. shot.]</div> <bR> <div> Byron wrote; [St. Lucia, 2 April, 1779], by the <I>British King</I>, which, with two other <B>Treasury victuallers</B> sailed from St. Lucia for Cork. "The <B>mail</B> carried by the <I>British King,</I> which sailed from St. Lucia on 8 April, reached the Admiralty, (endorsed 'received') on 27 May', and an extract from Byron's letter was published in the<I> London Gazette</I> on 29 May, 1779". (p.49)</div> <bR> <div> Byron arrived at St. Christopher's on 15 July with his whole Squadron from Grenada.  Admiral Barrington sailed with despatches for England on the 18th.   By the time Byron wrote again, he had received a mail from England.  Two packets arrived at St. Christopher's together - the <I>Lord Hyde</I> and the <I>Duke of Cumberland</I> - and <B>Byron took upon himself the responsibility of diverting one of them from continuing on to Jamaica</B>. (p.90)</div> <bR> <div> He was concerned to get dispatches home, and in case anything should have happened to the <I>Ariadne</I>, in which Barrington had sailed, he diverted the <I>Duke of Cumberland,</I> and sent home Captain Sawyer in her with <B>duplicates</B>. [See ID 5922 <I>Duke of Cumberland</I>, Mitchell, arrived Falmouth 4 September 1779.]</div> <div> qf. <I>Mariner's Mirror</I>, Vol. 30 (1944) "<I>Byron in the Leeward Islands, </I><I><B>1779</B></I><I>.</I>"  By D. Bonner-Smith.</div> <bR> <div> SM Monday January 20, 1800: Extract of a letter from Falmouth 16th</div> <div> The following squadron under the command of <B>Sir Edward Pellew,</B> sailed Monday last for the coast of France with it is said, fresh succours for the <B>Chouans</B>; <I>L'Impeteaux </I>74 guns<I>, Adventure</I> 44, <I>Cambria</I> 38,  <I>La Tamise</I> 32 guns<I>, Shannon</I> 32.</div> <div> The <I>Prince Adolphus</I> and <I>King George</I> packets sailed for Lisbon on Monday last [13th] and  on Tuesday the <I>Earl of Leicester</I> sailed for the windward islands. The <I>Lord Auckland</I> packet is just arrived from Tortola, after a passage of 28 days; the <I>Adelphi</I> packet had sailed from that island 3 weeks before her, but is not yet arrived, consequently some apprehensions are entertained for her safety.</div> <div> Tuesday arrived the <I>Termagant</I> sloop of war, in 23 days from Halifax; learn by her the safe arrival of the <I>Grantham</I> and <I>Princess Charlotte</I> packets at New York. This day arrived <I>Lady Arabella</I>, Captain Robarts, and the <I>Princess Amelia</I> packet, Captain Johns, from Dartmouth, both <B>new packets</B> for the foreign station.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> FP 22 July,<B>1843</B>: The Navy has 230 vessels (of 3471 guns), of which 78 are steam-vessels and 25 survey vessels (9 steam), 1 Hospital ship and 10 stationary or guard ships.</div> <bR> <div> <B>[Note: By 1843, the Navy had 3 steam vessels using the (Archimedes) screw, and had one iron vessel, which was sent on the Niger expedition and condemned in 1844, unable to proceed back to England, due to her rivets deteriorating.]</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>