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Trafalgar Ancestors

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Joseph Jefferies aged 14 born in Gosport, Hampshire, England.

Ship: HMS Defiance

Rating/Rank: Boy

 
   
 

Service details

 
   

HMS Defiance

29 May 1803 to 15 May 1807 (Was at Trafalgar)
Rank/rating: Boy Second Class

16 May 1807 to 11 September 1813
Rank/rating: Carpenter's Crew

HMS Blenheim

12 September 1813 to 27 March 1814
Rank/rating: Carpenter's Crew

28 March 1814 to 5 September 1814
Rank/rating: Carpenter's Mate

HMS Tamar

6 September 1814 to 15 March 1815
Rank/rating: Carpenter's Mate

16 March 1815 to 27 March 1816
Rank/rating: Acting Carpenter

28 March 1816 to 11 November 1823
Rank/rating: Carpenter

HMS Crocodile

13 November 1823 to 6 November 1827
Rank/rating: Carpenter

HMS Clio

7 November 1827 to 2 March 1829
Rank/rating: Carpenter
Comments: Served in Chatham Dockyard (in ordinary) from 3 March 1829 to 27 May 1829 as a carpenter.

HMS Thames

28 May 1829 to 18 July 1834
Rank/rating: Carpenter

HMS Cornwall

19 July 1834 to 23 September 1835
Rank/rating: Carpenter
 
   
 

Sources used

 
   

Catalogue reference: ADM 36/16244

Catalogue reference: ADM 29/6

 
 

Last updated: 11 October 2004

 
 

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