Gallery 3

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The sixteenth page from Andrew Service's logbook recording events on board HMS Medusa. This page, dated 1808, covers the period from 22nd January 1809 to 26th April 1809, and begins with HMS Medusa joining the Channel Fleet to sail to France and Spain, then onto Madeira before returning to Plymouth. Sets sail for Rochefort in France thereafter. (GUAS Ref: UGC 182. Copyright reserved.) The seventeenth page from Andrew Service's logbook recording events on board HMS Medusa. This page, dated 1808, covers the period from 2nd May 1809 to 24th December 1809, and begins with HMS Medusa in France before returning to Plymouth and then back to France. (GUAS Ref: UGC 182. Copyright reserved.) The eighteenth page from Andrew Service's logbook recording events on board HMS Medusa. This page, dated 1810, covers the period from 7th January 1810 to 27th April 1810, and continues with HMS Medusa in France commandeering several French vessels. (GUAS Ref: UGC 182. Copyright reserved.) The nineteenth page from Andrew Service's logbook recording events on board HMS Medusa. This page, dated 1810, covers the period from 29th April 1810 to 27th October 1810, and continues with HMS Medusa returning to Plymouth, Andrew Service being invalided out and going to London to receive his pension ticket at Greenwich. He then returns to Scotland. (GUAS Ref: UGC 182. Copyright reserved.)
       
     
 

Other Galleries 

Logbook - Gallery 1, Logbook Gallery 2, 
Conservation of the logbook, Plans of HMS Medusa

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Photo galleries

Logbook - Gallery 1

Logbook - Gallery 2

Conservation of the logbook

Plans of HMS Medusa

 

More information

Andrew Service

HMS Medusa