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Prizes Taken by Royal Navy Ships in 1740 News
Reports list 43 prizes captured by His Majesty's ships with brigantines and sloops seized abroad, plus privateer captures. Mentions Worcester, Falmouth, Shoreham, Squirrel, and Warren as captors. Also notes Lord Robert Kerr's volunteer request denied, Corn price unrest in Dutch towns, and various fleet movements toward Gibraltar and Newfoundland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chagre
Guarda-Costa
Admiral En
Thither
Mexico
Worcester
Falmouth
Boscawen
Shoreham
Warren
Squirrel
N. B
His
Europe
America
Robert Kerr
Scotland
Lord Cathcart
Rotherdam
Delft
Hague
Council of State
Prussia
Berlin
Cologne
Franckfort
Lye
Cleves
John Norris
Torbay
Anson
Gibraltar
Romney
Fale
Newfoundland
Parkgate
Oporto
Prince William
John Caulter
Villa de Conde
Camind
Canizer
Hampton
Augustus Cafar
Leghorn
Admiralty Office
Portsmouth
Se. Albars
Lark
Turky
Botton
New-England
Jobson
Earl of Godolphin
Riverton
Yorkshire
Earl of Inchiquin
Grosvenor- Square
Vernon