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Portsize: Naval and Privateering News From March London
London reports from March 8 detail Commodore Pocock’s Antiguan squadron intercepting French convoys bound for Martinique, with twenty captured and others sent to Barbadoes Antigua and Montserrat. Additional items cover a Jamaica to Bristol voyage captured and recaptured, a Russian drag on Algerian captives, a Majorcan rescue tale, London letters denying Lucerne reform, and local Portsmouth court sentences and ship movements at Spithead.
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London
Admiralty Office
Pocock
Antigua
Martinico
Sir Edward Hawke
Barbadoes
Montsferrat
Europe
Gally
Jamaica
Bristol
Peter Warren
Portsmouth
Newfoundland
Cape Pace
Yvica
Mediterranean
Majorca
Algiers
Basil
N.S
England
Lucerne
Holy See
Portmouth
Winton
Elizabeth Deer
William Bills
Richard Heath
Elizabeth Hendy
Aikenhead
Chichester
Mr. Allen
Neptune
Joshua Early
St. Helen’s
Spithead
Salisbury and Ambuscade
Scorpion
Duke of Cumberland
Beer-Haven
Royal George
Prince George
Tilbury
Hector
Otter
Tryal
Duke
Lion
St. George
Penzance
Intrepide
Hampton- Court
Prince Frederick
Ambuscade
Sriftol
Culloden
Speedwell
Deal
His Majesty
Winchelfea
Marca
Berne
Lusdona
Jaun Baptista
Renin
Mercury
Raven
Crrvo