Certificates of service and letters of recommendation.

Certificate of service, November 1797, for service on the following ships: EUROPA, AGAMEMNON, CAPTAIN and THESEUS; Certificate of service 13 August 1798 for service as Midshipman then Lieutenant aboard THESEUS; Promotion letter from C. Cotton to W. Hoste, 23 January 1811; Promotion letter with attached notes 20 December 1827.

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ID:	HOS/1
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	1797-1827
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	1 folder: 4 items.
Parts:	Hoste, Sir William, Captain, 1780-1828. (Manuscript) Certificates of service and letters of recommendation. (Manuscript) (HOS/1) Letters written by Hoste to his family and other family correspondence. (Manuscript) (HOS/2) Correspondence with other officers. (Manuscript) (HOS/3) List of vessels captured by HMS MUTINE and HMS EURYDICE during the command of Sir William Hoste, 1799-1805. (Manuscript) (HOS/4) List of vessels taken, destroyed or detained by HMS BACCHANTE, 1812-1813 (Manuscript) (HOS/5) Published orders received by Hoste and notes on events while in command of HMS AMPHION and then HMS BACCHANTE, 1805-1814. (Manuscript) (HOS/6) Accounts relating to HMS AMPHION. (Manuscript) (HOS/7) Document conferring Freedom of the Borough of Great Yarmouth. (Manuscript) (HOS/8) Hoste family genealogical tree and correspondence concerning wills, marriage, and titles to estates. (Manuscript) (HOS/9) Report on the Plan for Making A Ship Navigation from the sea at Lowestoft to Norwich. (Manuscript) (HOS/10) Documents relating to the death of William Hoste. (Manuscript) (HOS/11) Legal document: At the Court at Carlton House, 14 October 1816. (Manuscript) (HOS/12) Photographs of the recto and verso of a printed letter from Hoste to Fremantle. (Manuscript) (HOS/13) Lists of captives taken by HMS BACCHANTE and HMS AMPHION (separate, earlier acquisition. In folder with HOS/12). (Manuscript) (HOS/14) Thomas Earnshaw material, 1805, with letter,1797. (Manuscript) (HOS/15-17)

Certificates of service and letters of recommendation.

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