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Waves and Winds Delay Flanders Mail Convoy News
From London and Portsmouth comes a long dispatch detailing storm disrupted sea lanes with shifting sands in Fluthing harbor making navigation dangerous. Vessels including the York Lastelles Neptune Pur ling Earl of Temple Foster and Egmont reach Brazil while others sail from London to India and Ireland. Royal ships move to secure convoys for West Indies and Leeward Islands as proclamations, battles and battlefield reports unfold across Europe.
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York
Lastelles
Neptune
Purling
Earl of ‘Temple
Foster
Egmont
Mears
Brazils
London
India
Portsmouth
South Carolina
Dolphin
Nornan
Forrest
Plymouth
Centaur
Leeward Islands
Jamaica
King Road
Bristol
Looe
Ireland
West Indies
North-America
Glasgow and Peasley
Thompson
Smith
Leith
Nelly
Corbett
Ann
Fleming
May
Forbes
Houstoun
Chisholm
Glasgow
Gibraltar
Cork
Yarmouth
Sybilla
Abbott
Riga
Liverpool
Elfinear
Lot
N. W
Swedra Bay
Bedford
Hanfell
Stockholm
Lyme
Baker
Cole
Hull
Phyouth
Blandford
Briggs
Emsworth
Dublin
Spithead
St. George
Rippon
Lion
Hind
Downs
Exeter
Bengal
Engle
Havre de Grace
Marlborough
Sandwich
Campen
Conway
Bland
Pollock
Lieut. Ogilvie
Keith
M. Lantingshausen
Sweden
Torgau
de Nordmann
Italy
Sardinia
Savoy
Philip
Princess Dowager of Wales
Kew
Saville House
Chapel Royal
Lord Delawar
Nichols
Duke of York
Kensington Church
Thomas
St. James’s
Gray’s-Inn-Lane
Huntingdon
Regiment of Essex Militia
Westminster
Earl of Ancram
Dragoons
Croydon
Surry
Earl of Sussex
Cleveland Court
Lord Henley
Lincoln’s Inn
Westminster Hall