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From: Paul Benyon <>
Subject: Re: [Mar] HMS Chanticleer
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 21:43:13 +0100
References: <001501c479c0$5d236920$fcae7ad5@thomas9btopenworld.com>
In-Reply-To: <001501c479c0$5d236920$fcae7ad5@thomas9btopenworld.com>


Hi Howard

The National Archives web site provides a number of leaflets to help
those researching subjects concerning the Royal Navy:

http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/researchguidesindex.asp#r

I would suggest that your best starting point will probably be para
1.2 of the following leaflet:

http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=39

although if he was to become an officer the following leaflet might
also be applicable:

http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=46

but I would advise that I can find no officer with this name in the
Navy List for 1870 or 1879. However, the maintenance of a log would
suggest he may have been headed in that direction at one time, but I
would have thought that he would have been a cadet or midshipman,
unless he was perhaps earmarked for Warrant Officer rank ?

Should you need to employ a researcher - see the following URL:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/irlist/

for details.

I would suggest that this Chanticleer was the one launched at
Portsmouth on 9 Feb 1861, the previous one, built 1808 having been
condemned to Coast Guard Service at least by 1848, when she was based
on the River Crouch and was still there in 1860. The 1861 vessel was
a screw/sail powered sloop of 1,419 tons displacement, with 17 guns
was broken up circa 1875. Engines of 200 hp. By 1870 I have her
serving in the Pacific.

Regards

Paul

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 18:14:15 -0700, "Howard Thomas"
<> wrote:

>Dear Listers
>
>I have in my possession a log / training notebook from a trainee officer aboard HMS Chanticleer dating between 1861 and 1866. The log was kept by Thomas Davies, Seaman and includes a journal of an expedition made by some of the officers and crew from Jaffa to Jerusalem in 1863. HMS Chanticleer was the sister ship to HMS Beagle of Darwin fame and undertook several expeditionary voyages in the South Atlantic in the 1820-30s
>
>I have no fix on this Thomas Davies as yet, although one branch of my family at that time was Davies. How might I find out who this person was?
>
>Regards
>
>Howard
>Swansea
>
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