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ADM Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies
Division within ADM Records of Royal Marines
ADM 157 Admiralty: Royal Marines: Attestation Forms
Chatham Division - Attestations 1790-1883
ADM 157/115 Chatham division - attestations. Described at item level
Folios 93-95. George Pollendine, born Cambridgeshire.
Attestation papers to serve in the Royal Marines at Chatham 1864 (when aged 18).
Discharged 1874 as an Invalid.
Joined from Cambridgeshire Militia.
Covering dates 1864-1874
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status Public Record(s)
Language English

HMS Trafalgar

Type: 1st rate, Two-decker
Launched (Sail: 21 June 1841
Converted to screw: 21 March 1859
Hull: Wooden
Length: 216 feet
Men: 830
Builders measure (as screw): 2694 tons
Displacement (as screw): 4579 tons
Guns (as screw): 89
Fate: 1906
Last in commission: 1869
Class (as screw): Caledonia
Ships book: ADM 135/57

15 November 1867 - 20 November 1869
Commanded (from commissioning at Sheerness) by Captain Edward King Barnard, Coast Guard, Lough Swilly

17 August 1870 - 8 June 1872
Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth until paying off at Portsmouth) by Captain Thomas Bridgeman Lethbridge, seagoing naval cadet training ship

HMS Barracouta

Type: Sloop
Launched: 31 March 1851
Hull: Wooden
Propulsion: Paddle
Builders measure: 1053 tons
Displacement: 1676 tons
Guns: 6
Fate: 1881

March 1873 - May 1874
Commanded by Captain Edmund Robert Fremantle, west coast of Africa (in command of a squadron of seven small vessels at Cape Coast Castle)

HMS Duncan

Name: Duncan
Type: 2nd rate, Two-decker
Launched: 13 December 1859
Hull: Wooden
Length: 252 feet
Propulsion: Screw
Men: 930
Builders measure: 3727 tons
Displacement: 5724 tons
Guns: 101
Fate: 1910

1 April 1873 - 1 January 1875
Commanded by Captain George Willes Watson, Sheerness, replacing Pembroke