Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Prisoners of War in France, From 1804 to 1814: Being the Adventures of John Tregerthen Short and Thomas Williams of St. Ives, Cornwall
The Friendship, a vessel of 150 tons burthen, was built at Swansea in 1801, and upon the voyage, which was to end in her capture by the French privateer, she appears to have sailed from St. Ives on the second day of January, 1804.
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