21.

TNA: PRO ADM 51/1210/6; and ADM 52/3375

22.

TNA: PRO ADM 102/282; and ADM 102/387

23.

Colledge: Ships of the Royal Navy p.345; David Lyon: The Sailing Navy - All the Ships of the Royal Navy - Built, Purchased and Captured - 1688-1860 (London: Maritime Press, 1993) p.99; TNA PRO 35/2003; and ADM 36/12700

24.

 TNA: PRO ADM 51/1233/2; and ADM 102/282

25.

TNA: PRO ADM 35/2003 (Vesuvius); ADM 36/12700 (Vesuvius); ADM 35/1482 (Royal William); ADM 36/12184 (Royal William); ADM 36/12185 (Royal William); and Commissioned Sea Officers volume IV p.320; and volume VII p.554

26.

TNA: PRO ADM 51/1233/2; and ADM 36/12700

27.

TNA: PRO ADM 51/1233/2; ADM 51/1296/2; ADM 51/1281/6; ADM 52/3532/10; ADM 35/2003; ADM 36/12700; ADM 35/1933 (Tonnant); ADM 36/12668 (Tonnant); Colledge: Ships of the Royal Navy p.327 (Tonnant); and Commissioned Sea Officers volume IV p.320; volume VIII p.624; and volume VIII p.639

28.

TNA: PRO ADM 35/2003; ADM 36/12700; and ADM 51/1281/6

29.

Colledge: Ships of the Royal Navy p.57 (Brazen) & p.53 (Boadicea); TNA: PRO ADM 36/14141

30.

TNA: PRO ADM 1/1039 - A66; Clowes: The Royal Navy volume IV p.550; British Library: Early English Newspapers; untitled item in The True Briton 28^th January 1800 p.2; and BL: EEN: within section headed ‘LEWES’ in The True Briton 30^th January 1800 p.3 (also reported elsewhere)

31.

TNA: PRO ADM 48/46; and ADM 48/47

32.

TNA: PRO ADM 36/11704; ADM 36/12218; ADM 35/1460; and SoG: CHU2/1A/7 12^th December 1784

33.

 http://www.johnpounds.org.uk/john_pounds.html

34.

Len Barnett: ‘Two Masters in the Family - A Work in Progress’ in The Family and Local History Handbook (Nether Poppleton, York: Robert Blatchford Publishing Ltd., 8^th Edition)

35.

Nick Slope: ‘Volunteer Landsmen Recruits to the Royal Navy 1795-1811: The Case of the Three Thames-built Frigates’ in "Shipbuilding on the Thames and Thames-built Ships" Proceedings of a Second Symposium, held on 15 February 2003 at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (West Wickham: Dr. J.R. Owen, 2004)

36.

Charles Consolvo: ‘The Prospects and Promotion of British Naval Officers 1793-1815’ in The Mariner’s Mirror May 2005