Catalogue description LETTERS FROM ADMIRALS ETC. - AFRICA

These letters are from the Flag Officer commanding the West Africa Squadron. For much of its history this squadron was subordinate to the Cape of Good Hope Station, whose commander-in-chief enclosed the reports from West Africa with his own (ADM 1/55-86). Reports from Commodore Keppel commanding the 1758 expedition to Senegal are in ADM 1/54; those of other captains operating in these waters before the establishment of the Cape Station in 1795 are among Captain's Letters (ADM 1/1435-2738).

When using the ADM 12 indexes to search for papers in ADM 1, documents in this sub-sub-series have the reference: 'X'