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Newspaper

Public Ledger

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Apr 18, 1761

Page

2

Shipping News From Southampton and Deal April 13 16

The Daily Register records vessels and captains sailing to or from Exeter Quebec Lisbon Virginia Hamburgh Bremen and South Carolina. Ships under convoy include Maidstone with outward-bound fleets and several named ships such as William and Mary Enterprize Braganza St Peter and St Paul Henrietta Elizabeth Kitty and Liberty with wind directions noted April 13 to 16.

Vigilant Churchill Black Prince Rawlins King William Pearce Newfoundland Prince of Wales Chapman Lee Southamption Wind N.N.E William and Mary Franklin Exeter le Buez Quebec Deal E.N. E Maidstone Gravesend Braganza Hart St. Peter and St. Paul, Modell Henrietta Hill Lisbon Elizabeth Douglas Virginia Flying Mercury Stimpson Hamburgh Kitty Johnson South Carolina Liberty Stringer Bremen Capt. Potts Volunteer London Spain Commodore Keppel Bay Potts Defiance Welton Poole St. Chistopher’s Lady Carmilla Crawford Tyson Stubbs Rowley Kiddall Pitt Young Mills Finch Prospect Wright Bristol Warnell Mercury Odiorne Piscataqua Bishop Old Calabar Speedwell James Allan Vigo Oporto Fearon Dover Dorfershire Campbell Belfast Barbadoes Bayonne Channel Lyon Scandrett Antigua St. Ann Wauchop Dunn Gibraltar Madeira Planter Wynn New York Liverpool Kennedy Denia Eaton Kingston Cowes Plymouth Guernsey Cormorant Julius Cesar Jamaica Fraser Guadalupe Angola York Knill Mary Terpsichore Judith Webber Cadiz Bennet Chester George Cork Hector Thomas Gallant Forrest Amphion Bourdeaux Martinico St. Kitt’s England Africa Martinicos Admiralty Holland Texel Gosport Bask Portsmouth

Poets, Privateers, and Malta Debates Run Through Atlantic News

News from Virginia to St Christopher's lists ships and captains, including Capt. Potts and several vessels homeward or at sea. Dispatches recount privateers, prizes, and convoys, with commentary on the Knights of Malta and Ottoman threats to Malta, plus court and society notes from London.

Navy Office Half-Pay Payments Open for Sea Officers

The Lords Commissioners of the Treasury announce half-pay start dates for sea officers, with payments to begin at the Navy Office Broad Street on Monday April 27 at ten o clock, continuing the following day. Officers must bring affidavits of no public employment and certificates of Test and Oaths, or their attorneys may supply them. Also notice a charity fundraiser by the Hospital for the Maintenance and Education of exposed and deserted children with a concert in the chapel on April 24, tickets from local venues and the hospital steward, doors open at nine, performance at noon.

Navy-Office His Majesty Treasury Broad-street Smith Stanley Arthur's St. James’s Street Button's Cornhill Tom Devereux Court Will Zucker Smeth William Ellis Thomas Smith Church Street Spitalfields

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