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[ROYAL NAVY]. [A manuscript log of Royal Navy personnel].

[s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d.]
[22] leaves. Stitched, as issued. Old central vertical fold, occasional spotting. Two small sketches of vessels to verso of penultimate leaf.
An early nineteenth-century manuscript register of sailors serving aboard a frustratingly unidentified vessel, including; boatswains, forecastlemen, foretopmen, misentopmen, the captains of the mast, afterguard, gunners, carpenters, and marines. There is mention of a Lieutenant Ormond, this is potentially Francis Ormond, made Lieutenant on 3rd December 1810, and appointed to the frigate Endymion in 1813 off the North coast of America. During the War of 1812, he commanded a division of boats, under the orders of Captain Robert Barrie, an expedition up the Penobscot river, Maine, to capture American territory, culminating in the Battle of Hampden. He served under the same officer in the action which led to the capture of the American frigate President, in January of 1815; and was second lieutenant of the Impregnable at the Battle of Algiers in 1816. The presence of Ormond's name in the manuscript under the heading of '2 division', would suggest that the list was compiled in conjunction with the actions at Maine in 1814.
£ 750.00 Antiquates Ref: 25343