Description
Manuscript Receipt, signed as the Senior Lieutenant of HMS Alceste, for “one deal box” containing Muster Books and letters, received from Robert Mitford, Captain of HM Sloop Espoir, and Wilson promises to forward the box to the Commissioners on his arrival in England. 8 x 8 inches, minor blemishes. His Majesty’s Ship Alceste, Malta Harbour, 25 June 1812. Lieutenant Andrew Wilson took part in the daring action of 22 May 1810, pursuing French vessels in the Bay of Agay, Under cover of darkness, two boats from Alceste, one under Lieutenant Andrew Wilson, the other led by the ship’s master, Henry Bell, attacked the shore batteries.