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Title: ships name please
Post by: pritchardgeo on Thursday 22 May 25 11:51 BST (UK)
can anyone make out this ships name please. 1839 to 1842.
its a record of Thomas Williams b 1813 Falmouth. first ship Alert 1832 last ship impregnable. thank you. brian
Title: Re: ships name please
Post by: pritchardgeo on Thursday 22 May 25 12:02 BST (UK)
sorry and this one please
Title: Re: ships name please
Post by: ShaunJ on Thursday 22 May 25 12:18 BST (UK)
That one is Alert.  If you look at the next ship, Magnificent, you can see the peculiar way the clerk writes a t.

His first ship was Spey in 1832

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/9050/images/42474_1831101456_11498-00065?pId=67225
Title: Re: ships name please
Post by: pritchardgeo on Thursday 22 May 25 12:24 BST (UK)
brilliant and this one please
Title: Re: ships name please
Post by: AlanBoyd on Thursday 22 May 25 12:31 BST (UK)
Linnet?

At that date HMS Linnet was an 8 gun packet brig, launched 1835.
Title: Re: ships name please
Post by: pritchardgeo on Thursday 22 May 25 12:40 BST (UK)
thank you Shaun and Alan. two pairs of glasses and never got near those names. thanks so much.Brian