Letters from Richard Thomas, Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief, to Captain John Jervis Tucker, HMS DUBLIN, 22 August 1843-23 April 1845

John Jervis Tucker - Letters from Richard Thomas, Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief, to Captain John Jervis Tucker, HMS DUBLIN, 22 Aug 1843-23 April 1845, re: the ship's service in Tahiti, including: orders to proceed to Tahiti 'for the purpose of affording assistance and protection to the British Residents' under a French Provisional Government on the Island, 22 Aug 1843; sailing orders to proceed to Honolulu to rejoin the Flag Ship by 1 March 1844, dated 5 January 1844; the state of Peru and an order not to recognise any blockade or embargo, 13 August 1844; and preparations of the ship at Callas, 15 September 1844. With a pair of wooden boards.

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ID:	TUC/54
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Family, Tucker
Date made:	1843-08-22 - 1844-09-15
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	6 items
Parts:	Letters from and to John Jervis Tucker. (Manuscript) Letter from Captain John Jervis Tucker, HMS DUBLIN, to William Daldy, 24 November 1843, enclosing a deposition of the crew (Manuscript) (TUC/53) Letters from Richard Thomas, Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief, to Captain John Jervis Tucker, HMS DUBLIN, 22 August 1843-23 April 1845 (Manuscript) (TUC/54) Letter from the Commissioners of the Admiralty to Captain John Jervis Tucker, HMS DUBLIN, 26 March 1845, re: paying off the ship at Devonport (Manuscript) (TUC/55) Letters from various correspondents (in order of correspondent) to Captain John Jervis Tucker, HMS DUBLIN, 3 Oct 1843-18 January 1844 (Manuscript) (TUC/56) Letters from Bruat, Governor of the French Possessions of the Pacific Ocean to: 'the Foreign Residents', 9 November 1843, incorporating orders and decrees; and Protestant Missionaries on Tahiti, 16 November 1843 (Manuscript) (TUC/57) Letters from Admiral du Petit Thouars to Pomare, Queen of Tahiti, 1-4 November 1843 (in French) (Manuscript) (TUC/58) Letter from Lawrence Kearney, Commander-in-Chief of the US Naval Force in the East Indies to His Majesty Kamshamsha III, King of the Sandwich Islands, 11 July 1843 (Manuscript) (TUC/59) Letter of receipt from JP Parker to Mr Pitman, 9 Feb 1844, re: dispatches to Honolulu (Manuscript) (TUC/60) Letters from Taamu, King of Bora Bora to: Captain William Daldy, 8 Dec 1843 (translated to Tahitian); and an unknown, nd, translated by Adam J Darling (Manuscript) (TUC/61) Copy of a letter from John Walpole to Rear-Admiral Richard Thomas, 28 Feb 1844, together with a copy of a letter to Walpole from His Excellency the Secretary for War & Marine, Don Santiago Jose Aldunate (latter in Spanish) (Manuscript) (TUC/62) Copy of an original letter sent by the British Residents of Tahiti to Admiral du Petit Thouars, nd; and letter from the same to George Pritchard, British Consul in Tahiti, 17 January 1844 (Manuscript) (TUC/63) Letters from Protestant Missionaries on Tahiti to Bruat, Governor of the French Possessions of the Pacific Ocean, 16-17 November 1843 (Manuscript) (TUC/64) Copy of a statement by Charles de Lisle of London re: the tearing down of the Tahitian flag by French Forces, April 1844 (Manuscript) (TUC/65) Statements from Admiral du Petit Thouars and George Pritchard, British Consul in Tahiti, 19 Oct 1843, re: a treaty between King Louis Philipe of France and Her Majesty Pomare, Queen of Tahiti, also with a list of islands and their populations (Manuscript) (TUC/66) Copy of a statement by Charles McIlroy, County Tyrone re: the French claiming possession of Tahiti, nd (Manuscript) (TUC/67) Statements from John Platt, 28 Oct 1843, and Thomas West, 6 September and 28 Oct 1843, signed by Captain John Jervis Tucker, HMS DUBLIN, re: the transportation of cattle (Manuscript) (TUC/68) Statement from 25 Dec 1843 re: the punishment of an American boy found guilty of defaming the character of an English Subject, Mr Merrick (Manuscript) (TUC/69) Report, 'An Account of the Roman Catholic priests coming to Tahiti', nd, including a letter from Admiral du Petit Thouars to Her Majesty Pomare, Queen of Tahiti, 30 August 1838 (Manuscript) (TUC/70) Report, 'A Dog Fight at Tahiti, 25 April 1842', by George Pritchard, British Consul of Tahiti, 19 Oct 1843 (Manuscript) (TUC/71) Report, 'The Introduction of the Small Pox to Tahiti & the Society Islands', from an infected American vessel, June 1841. With a report, 'Two American citizens protected by their Consul in an attempt to murder', 20 Oct 1843 (Manuscript) (TUC/72) Copy of a 'Protocol of a conference held on board HMS TALBOT, lying in Papiete Harbour, Tahiti, 18 January 1843', with Queen Pomare present, re: demands made by Admiral de Petit Thouars and the protection of the Island by the British Government (Manuscript) (TUC/73) Note re: the passage of an officer from HMS DUBLIN to Valparaiso, undertaken by Monsieur Labreille, Captain of the NATHALIE, for the sum of 100 dollars, 9 January 1844 (in French) (Manuscript) (TUC/74) Receipt for 15 ounces of gold received by Captain John Jervis Tucker, HMS DUBLIN, from William Lowe, nd (Manuscript) (TUC/75)

Letters from Richard Thomas, Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief, to Captain John Jervis Tucker, HMS DUBLIN, 22 August 1843-23 April 1845

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