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C H Hull 16 May 1856 "Sandlemere" 9th May 1856 1 Jolly Boat marked "Ardent of Newcastle" Value 10/- Numbered 135 to be sold immediately The gross proceeds of Sale and expenses to be stated opposite JS Mr Hoad Sandlemere Marginalia A

Lt. Stewart RN Hornsea 16 May 1856 Dr Sir See my List No 24 - 1: 3 34 - 1: 3 35 - 1: 3 79 - 3: - 116 - 7 : -

These sums cannot be allowed as expenses but must be paid out of Salvage My List again Nos 22 23 25 67 114 the wreck at these numbers does not appear to have been sold. - the Board of Trade have directed their immediate Sale - and therefore sold they must be. - Have the goodness to cause this to be done without loss of time No 33 A Darit & 4 Fir Boards 3s/6d is placed opposite Is that the gross proceeds of the whole lot? Be so good as to write your explanations opposite each query and return this paper with the two Lists herewith sent to JS stamped envelope enclosed

Marginalia S

Messrs Jenner Dyke & Jenner Doctors Commons London

19 May /56

Gentlemen

Your letter of the 17th instant to Captain Metcalfe of Bridlington respecting the Vessel "Friendship" has been handed to me as the Receiver of Wreck for the Bridlington district - and I have forwarded it by todays post to the Board of Trade for instructions - The two Bonds and the £65 therein mentioned are in my keeping JS

Sec Marine Dept Board Trade London Sir "Friendship" 19th May /56 Annexed is a letter from Messrs Jenner Dyke and Jenner of Doctors Commons, addressed to Captain Metcalfe of Bridlington on behalf of the Salvors of the Vessel above named - requesting that the entered into by Mr Moxon and Mr England the owners of the Cargo, and £65 deposited by the master, may be remitted to the High Court of Admiralty - as forwarded to you - I herewith return the Bonds to you,- together with a Copy of the agreement made between the Master and Salvors that £300 should be paid for their services - Also an award drawn up by Messrs Brambles & Son - Agent for Lloyds at Bridlington, and communications on the subject of the said award that passed between Mr Moxon, Mr England and myself - I have replied to Messrs Jenner that those documents have been forwarded to you and that the £65 is still in my hands awaiting your instructions JS

Marginalia No 5523-24 May/56 Referred to Mr Farrer the Collector Hull - is requested to search the Money accordingly TH Farrer 24 May /56

39 Sec Marine Dept. Board of Trade London Sir 19 May /56 By my directions Mr. Catchpole the Inspector of the River - and Mr. Davis Tide Surveyor who you lately saw in London have been following certain quantities Train Road Iron and fittings - and portions of Iron which have been lately taken out of the Sea by some Grimsby Wreckers, from a Vessel that sunk many years ago - say 16 or 17 years in Patrington Haven - which is in the Humber, within Spurn Point, consequently not within my district, but that of Mr Saxelbye the Receiver of wreck for the Hull district - They have followed 25 tons to Leeds and found it in the possession of the Monkbridge Iron Company, who had purchased it from a man named Birdsell - also of Leeds, and who is a Marine Store dealer He obtained the Iron from a man named John Wood Marine Store dealer at Grimsby who had it from two Sloopmen one named (Surfleet) - and the other Wilkinson) The Iron was landed from the Sloops of which Surfleet and Wilkinson are the masters, one in the Old Harbour of |Hull, the other in the Railway Creek - which is about a quarter of a mile west of Hull in the Humber - Birdsell was prseent at the landing of the lot in the Old Harbour and received it out of the Vessel from Wood of Grimsby and the master of the Vessel, and sent it per Rail consigned to himself at Leeds - this case has been heard today before the Stipendiary Magistrate, who convicted Birdsell in the penalty of double the Value Viz total £74, - A fine of £20 and the Costs

of the prosecution with a forfeiture to all claim for Salvage. Mr Catchpole and Mr Davis have informed me that Mr Saxelby is in consequence of having convicted Birdsell in one case - will write by this post for instructions whether he may not waive proceedings in the other case - which can be proved as easily as the first case - this appears to me as well as to them not proper particularly as the can prove that he sold the second lot to the Monck Bridge Iron Company and was paid for it, by them at the rate of £5: 7: 6 per ton I should have said that two lots were landed in the Railway Creek both of which Birdsell sold to the Monck Bridge Iron Company at the rate above named - the Solicitor of the customs through you has directed proceedings in all three of the cases - all of which can be proved - waiving proceedings in the two remaining cases will therefore be allowing Birdsell to escape with a large sum of money - for which he has sold thse two lots to the Monck Bridge Iron Company - Since the three lots of Iron before mentioned my officers are on the track of another lot of fifteen tons which I have every reason to beleive will be traced to a party concerned in the aforegoing transaction - I therefore trust that you will not allow proceedings to be waived in either of the cases - By Part 2 of the 480th Section of the M.S. Act 1854 all marine Stores Dealers are required to keep Books, but Birdsell neither keep Books, nor letters but destroys the latter as he receives the - at least so he wood the same

40 says - you can therefore judge in some degree of the character of the person we have to deal with in this matter JS

Lt. Shacklock RN Sir 21 May /56 Is this No 161 George Mainprize's piece of Timber of which the Bridlington Harbour Commissioners took possession If some other - be so good as to give me the number JS Marginalia S

Lt. Stubbin RN 21 May 1856 Article Nos 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, & 150 transmitted with orders to sell JS Marginalia S

Mr Wm. Hoad 21 May 1856 Article No 151 sent JS Marginalia H

Sidney Taylor Esq. Bridlington Quay Sir 24 May 1856 I beg to acquaint you for the information of the Bridlington Harbour Commissioner's - that I have been directed by the Board of Trade not to allow wreck goods to be taken possession of by any person under a plea that they possess manorial rights over a particular district without the consent of the said Board - and having been informed that the said Harbour Commissioners have taken possession of a piece of Timber salved by George Mainprize on the 15th May 1855 - and numbered in the Book of the Received of Wreck for the district 161 I request you will have the goodness to inform me for the information of the Board of Trade by what authority Marginalia T