| Description | copies of log books, orders, proclamations and other fleet business made by Captain (later Admiral) Duncombe Pleydell-Bouverie (1780-1850) for HMS Medusa, 32 guns, during 1812-1813 while in support of the Duke of Wellington's army in the Peninsula War, HMS Windsor Castle, 76 guns, 1829-1831 as part of Admiral Malcolm's squadron in the Aegean Sea during the Greek War of Independence (including a sketch map of the plain of Troy and an 1826 account of the defences of the Dardanelles) and HMS Vanguard, 78 guns, serving in the Mediterranean; there are lists of officers and specifications of all three ships under Capt. Pleydell-Bouverie's command (fragile - handle with care) |