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Auction: 26066 - Historical Documents, Autographs and Ephemera
Lot: 1194

Great Britain
Naval - Napoleonic Wars
1814 (1 April) Autograph letter written by Edward Tyndall from HMS Ajax, Cawsand Bay, to Miss Tyndall at Fort, near Bristol, with a Plymouth datestamp, reporting his safe arrival on board, where "we have Sir Harry Neale's flag...who is going to Basque Roads with us". Refers to a French 80 gunship escaping from Bordeaux and the sight of "a very fine French Frigate come in here with her mizen mast shot away, she was taken by the Hebrus Capt Palmer". (With supporting background information)

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Estimate
£150 to £200

Starting price
£120