Memoir of the late Captain Joseph Huddart, F. R. S. & C. [With two papers by him from Phil. Trans., 1777 and 1796] / [Joseph Huddart].

  • Huddart, Joseph
Date:
1821
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Credit: Memoir of the late Captain Joseph Huddart, F. R. S. & C. [With two papers by him from Phil. Trans., 1777 and 1796] / [Joseph Huddart]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pany’s service: Mr. Huddart accompanied him to Dudman’s yard, to see a ship he was there building for the Company’s service; at the same time, they in- spected several other Indiamen. Sir Richard was so much pleased with the judicious remarks Mr. Huddart made on this occasion, as to express a strong desire that he should relinquish his present pursuits, and enter into the Company’s service, intimating that he could not fail of meeting with great encouragement and success. Mr. Huddart, however, finding that by the existing regulations of the Company, he could not enter into a higher station than fourth officer, and feeling his situation in his own vessel very comfort- able and independent, at that time declined the pro- posal. In the year 1773, on his return from one of his voyages to North America, he received a pressing invitation from Sir Richard Hotham to revisit London; this he complied with, and Sir Richard proposed to him that he should enter the Company’s service as fourth officer in the York, then nearly ready for B
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