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Vashon, Leith, to Markham, on numbers of shipwrights at Leith, Firth of Forth, Greenock, Glasgow, Berwick, Tyne, Sunderland, and rates of pay (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/39
Captain Grey, regulating Officer, Hull, to Markham, 14 shipwrights have come forward for employ (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/42
Mr Peake, to Markham, on pay books of shipwrights (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/43
Captain Charlton, North Shields, to Markham, having circulated the provisions proposed by the Admiralty for engaging shipwrights, will provide them with certificates for Sheerness (Manuscript)
1807
MRK/101/2/45
Excise Office, Edinburgh, enclosure on the Betsey lugger taken by Captain Elder of the Royal Charlotte excise yacht (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/21
J Vashon, Ludlow, to Markham, Admiralty, asking that Lieutenant Holcombe be retained in HMS Naiad (Manuscript)
1803
MRK/101/2/1
Admiral John Markham in letters from Rear Admiral Vashon (Manuscript)
1803-1807
MRK/101/2
Capt Vashon, Portsmouth, to Markham, asking for the Reverend David Harmis to be removed from the Utrecht to the Princess Royal (Manuscript)
1804
MRK/101/2/5
Vashon, Leith, to Markham, commenting on the memorial of Lord Dundas about raising men from the Islands, with only 50 men sent since my arrival in May 1804 (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/26
Captain Vashon, to Markham, on the Lieutenant vacancy in HMS Princess Royal, asking for Lieutenant Dix to be considered (Manuscript)
1803
MRK/101/2/2
Capt Vashon, Portsmouth, to Markham, asking for Lieutenant Dix on the transfer of lieutenant Pace to the St George and have received petitions from convicts formerly sound seamen to leave the hulks and serve in a Man of War (Manuscript)
1804
MRK/101/2/6
Enclosure entitled Keith’s Shoal, in the passage between Cape Bon and the island of Maretimo, surveyed September 1802 (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/48
Admiral Vashon, Leith, to Markham, illness of Captain Baker appointed to the sea fencibles at Liverpool, to be given more time to recover, copying an extract from Eliz. Baker on his health (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/8
Admiral Vashon, Leith, to Admiral Markham, on the difficulty of getting fishermen and other seamen from the Orkney Islands who resist service; the need of the regulating officer, Lieutenant Scot for a tender; suggesting a search of the Scottish coast to stop claims of exemption and escape from the press; In Fifeshire the men are concealed until merchant ships are procured; failed to get any men from the returning Greenland ships (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/9
Admiral Vashon, Leith, to Markham, suggesting recruitment of men from the sea fencibles; and also at Shetland and Orkney if a regulating officer is appointed (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/10
Vashon, Leith, to Markham, on a convoy of 106 sail which sailed to the Baltic all returned (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/13
Vashon, Leith, to Markham, enclosing a letter from Lieutenant Gourly on the smuggling trade; request of flag lieutenant Dix for leave (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/14
Vashon, Leith, to Markham, on need to be able to direct revenue vessels to protect trade (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/17
Vashon, Leith, to Markham, reporting a lugger condemned as a smuggler being bought by the smugglers to be fitted as a privateer (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/18
Vashon, Leith, to Markham, on efforts of Lieutenant Gourley to recruit fishermen, more details enclosed on the lugger being fitted out (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/23
Vashon, Leith, to Markham, private, only the Nightingale from the convoy service available to intercept the Greenland fleet (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/25
Vashon, Leith, to Markham, on possibility of men deserting from the Norfolk defence ship on convoy to Baltic (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/28
Vashon, Leith, to Markham, on the need of ships for convoy duty and names of ships sent northwards on intelligence of French frigates cruising near the ice; letter from Sir E Pellew on Captain Vashon quitting India because of his wounds, having been abroad 12 years (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/29
Vashon to Markham, on return of the Texel, views of Shetland islanders on the impress, actions of the masters to avoid impress, use of the lugger brought in to port to raise men (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/31
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