Admiralty Letters of Admiral Jahleel Brenton

Brenton, Admiral Jahleel

Verlag: 1814-21, 1814

Beschreibung

Folio. Bound in the original full vellum with text on the front board and spine. First half of the book has been paginated by hand and the rest is unpaginated, with the latter portion of the book not having been used. Handwritten copies of letters, as well as a ledger of accounts; first dated letter from February 1814 and continues on into 1821. Considerable wear and soiling to the boards, with the vellum beginning to lift and a 10" X 1" strip of vellum missing from the fore edge of the front board and another chip missing from the top corner on the front. Mild foxing to some pages, but mostly clean internally. Binding fairly tight and, aside from the wear to the boards, the overall condition is good. Sir Jahleel Brenton, 1st baronet, KCB (1770 ?1844) was a British admiral born in Newport, Rhode Island, British North America. Brenton's most brilliant action was fought with a squadron of French ships at Naples on 1 May 1810. This ledger contains copies of letters relating to Admiral Jahleel Brenton's time at the Navy Dockyards in Mahon and Table Bay and is a fascinating resource into the workings of these two naval dockyards. The letters from 1814 are copies of the correspondence between various Navy establishments (mostly H.M. Ships) and the Mahon Yard, and includes victualling orders, costs and stocks of different size masts and spurs, stocks at the Naval Arsenal, accounts and exchange rates and correspondence from Gibraltar Yard. There are many letters from Francis Pickmore on H.M.S. St. George who was Vice Admiral of the Blue (he was later Governor of Newfoundland), a lot of correspondence from Rear Admiral Edward Pellew, Commander in Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet on H.M.S. Caledonia, he later became Lord Exmouth when his letters were then signed "Exmouth", several letters from Benjamin Hallowell, Rear Admiral of the White, on H.M.S. Malta, including giving the Duchess of Orleans passage to Marseilles and there is a list of ships under the command of Admiral Hallowell, translated letters from Antonio Iuesade on Ferdinand 7th, and General Sir John Murray from Gibraltar. The rest of the contents from 1817-21 relate to when Admiral Brenton had been transferred to Table Bay Yard in Cape of Good Hope. Here there are only copies of his letters to Rear Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm of the St. Helena Squadron, to Rear Admiral Robert Plampin of the C.G.H. Squadron and finally to Rear Admiral Lambert of the St. Helena Squadron. These letters include references to shipments to St. Helena, where Napoleon was held in exile. Rear Admiral Lambert was also Governor of St. Helena and attended Napoleon's funeral in 1821. The letters conclude with the proposed reduction in the scale of operation of the Table Bay Yard. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 141211

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Admiralty Letters of Admiral Jahleel Brenton

Verlag: 1814-21

Erscheinungsdatum: 1814

Einband: Hardcover

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers