HANCOCK (Charles, b. 1766, C.B., Captain R.N.)

Autograph Letter in the third person to Messrs Adderley & Bax, asking them to transcribe the wills of J.E. Liebenrood, (d. 1812), of Prospect Hill, Reading, and the most recent will of his widow Lucy (d. 1829 in Middlesex), Hancock's sister, 1 side 8vo., 3 St. Albans Place, Charles Street, Waterloo Place, 9th April

In another hand are the references to the Volumes and the charges for transcribing them.
For a long account of Hancock's very varied and exciting service, and his going to sea again after a firm decision to abandon the Navy, see Marshall, Supplement Part I (1827), pp. 4-31. At Copenhagen, 1801, he was in charge of a flotilla of 150 small boats, carrying 2000 men for storming the Trekroner battery. Unable to reach it, they instead took possession of the captured enemy ships. Hancock disobeyed orders to burn the Holsten, recently abandoned by the Danish C-in-C, as he realised she was in excellent condition, and she saw good service as the Nassau (64).

Item Date:  1831

Stock No:  51805      £75

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