Catalogue description Commissioner Richard Hughes, Portsmouth. Receipt of a copy of Captain Ambrose's account...

Commissioner Richard Hughes, Portsmouth. Receipt of a copy of Captain Ambrose's account of his cutting away all his masts in a storm in the Chichester Shoals and asking for a vessel and Officer to assist in her recovery. Jeremiah Scarvell, Arundel, Sussex has secured what he believes to be part of the Greyhound's raft. Mr Blanckley is to verify this and to order its retrieval. Receipt of warrants to supply the Master of the Elizabeth and Ann merchant ship with anchors and cables and to be sent the bill of exchange for the owner, Mr Le Quesne, for valuation and to inform what quantity of Sweeds iron Mr Wordsworth has delivered on contract, stating the quantity of the first and second sort of orgrounds. An account of Stephen Curtis's brimstone and train oyle is being sent. The Rose has sailed from Spithead and the Lenox is undocked and replaced by the Torbay. The Edinburgh is ordered to Portsmouth to be cleaned and refitted for Channel service as there is no suitable mooring clear.