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London News and Naval Affairs From Portsmouth to Norfolk
A wide reading of naval orders and appointments lists Major General La Fausille and others set for Portsmouth, ship builds, convoys, chaplains named, and deaths. Updates include a French privateer sighting near the Lizard, the Peggy cruising, and plans to arm a 74 gun ship at Milford Haven with timber from Golden Grove. Also notes theatre scenes at Covent Garden and local incidents in London and Norwich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Fausille
Keppel
Michelson
Howe
Carleton
Ackland
Dundas
Wintringham
Portsmouth
Falmouth
Prince Henry
Wilkson
Chester
London
Lizard
To Gans
Peggy
Africa
England
France
Gambia
Wapping New Stairs
Nation
Henry Bird
Rotherhithe
Milford Haven
Wales
John Philipps
Golden Grove
Bird
West Indies
Towndrow
Lord Albemarle
Fisher
Bennet College
Cambridge
Hampshire
Pall-Mall
Lawrence
Countess of Suffolk
York
Thomas Howard
Surrey
Norfolk
Appollo
Daphne
Covent- Garden Theatre
Harlequin
Columbine
Cock-Lane
Cock June
Harlequix
Fanny
Carce
St. James’s
Grammont
Battrville
Saunders
Cadiz
Spain
Porthmouth
Gibraltiac