Box 4

Scope and Contents This leather-bound volume contains copies of outgoing correspondence on board HMS Trent, Cork Harbor: Acknowledgements of numerous misc. Adm. Orders, condition reports submitted, and copies of sailing and provisioning, and convoy orders issued A list of declared deserters from the Sloop Helena, Capt. Worth (29 August 1808) A response to the Adm. Request for an explanation of the extended detention of the tender Perseverance (20 October 1808) An order discharging a Richard Cox from the Resolute, but noting that, although an American citizen, he was not impressed (29 October, 1808) A request for instructions on the handling of supplies on board the victualler Campion, bound for the Lisbon Squadron, the Campion having been seized for smuggling and other breaches of the Revenue Laws. (31 October, 1808) Orders directing a cruise off the Skellings to locate the sloop Concord captured by a French privateer (8 November 1808) and later stating that the Concord was not captured, but deserted by her crew and taken into possession by the master of a merchant schooner from Valencia (12 November 1808) Numerous letters regarding the establishment of signaling stations at various coastal locations, the difficulties of procuring timbers for them, etc. Orders for a cruise to locate vessels carrying timber for various Dockyards that sailed from the St. Lawrence River unescorted and which remain unaccounted for (31...