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HMS Surly (1806)

  • ... that the Royal Navy cutter HMS Surly carried almost £96,000 of coin between Dublin and London in 1825? "to Lieutenant H. Wollnough for d* at the rate of 1/2 percent on £95,950 10s 3d, the estimated value of specie conveyed in HMS Surly from Dublin to London and from London to Dublin in the months of August and September 1825." from: Journals of the House of Commons Volume 81. H.M. Stationery Office. 1826. p. 429.
    • ALT1:... that the crew of the Royal Navy cutter HMS Surly helped to suppress seamen's strikes on the Rivers Tyne and Wear in the 1820s? "ordered to the river Wear to assist the civil power in repressing an outbreak among the seamen who had struck for higher wages ... his success was so great that before long he was similarly employed at Shields" from: The United Service Magazine Volume 127. H. Colburn. 1871. pp. 184–185.

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