€240
Napoleonic-wars, Royal Navy documents, 1805-1817 relating to Lieutenant John Hackney. Letters signed by his ship's captains certifying his service from able seaman and midshipman on HMS Monarch, 1803-05, signed by Captain JC Searle; midshipman on HMS Edgar, 1805-10, letters signed by Captains JC Searle and Robert Jackson; midshipman HMS Berwick, 1810-12, signed by Captains James McNamara and Edward Brace; Lieutenant on HMS Milford, 1814, signed by Captain Westby Percival; also a manuscript fragment of Hackney's Lieutenants examination certificate, lieutenant's commission, appointment to HMS Milford, Memorandum of Service, and 1825 appointment to Chief Officer Coast Guard Rattery Head Aberdeen Harbour; together with a small archive of family documents relating to Navy pension, funerals etc.
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