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... MM)iO j ew On monday, about noon, a bombardiment of Calais took place, which continued for several hours. The British squadron consisted of three frigates, three bombs, a schooner, and t-wo cut- ters. The attack was distindly seen from Do- ver cliffs, which were covered with spectators. The squadron took its station, and kept up a very vurm firc of shot and thclls. Thb; '. . was save ...

Published: Wednesday 05 October 1803
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1563 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Commerce 

Ship News

... ??Dip B- F11,05. (Cu;r effective naval force at present consists of 2le sail of the line, 1r ships of ;o gun1s, 132 fri- g$a, and i[7 sloop, making a total of 415 sail, !nclsive of cutters, hired ships. &c. ; so sail r:f t, e line are repairing, xg building, and 70 are nr *;-dinary, which, with receiving ships, make 7-, sail of the line; and with frigats and sloops O ar, amount to 6s6 vessels ...

Ship News

... 1 ?)Pfp D, CW5. Dispatches were on Thursday received f'i:.> i Admiral Cornwallis, dated off Ushant, Otqe:.x . ist, by which it appears, that the enemy made no movement there. The London Gazette contains a letter frnm Lieutenant Leaver, commanding the Jackail i mz brig, announcing the capture of a French aralcd t 0oop of4 two-pounders. She was boarded ire calm, and brought off in a very ...

Published: Wednesday 19 October 1803
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 861 | Page: Page 2, 3 | Tags: Commerce 

Ship News

... - i) --- - Vie nre happy in being able to announce, that a letter from Lord Keith is received in Edin- birgh, which states, that a squadron, under a flag, is ordered for the proteaion of the coast of Scotland, imirediattly. The Gorgon man oi war, which sailed on Monday from Leith Roads, is returned, with ordersto remain. A fleet of ships from the Baltic, under. convoy of the Hoand sliop, ...

Published: Wednesday 26 October 1803
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1716 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Commerce