By Captain Andrew Snape Hamond &c.
Whereas the Liverpool has received damage by grounding on the sunk Frames off Billingport in attempting the Removal of them,1 and the Admiral has thought proper to direct her to be hove down for repairing that Injury. You are therefore hereby required to proceed on that business with all the Expedition the state of the Weather will admit; and such assistance of Shipwrights, or other Artificers will be given by Mr. Thompson, Ship builder at Philadelphia, as you may judge to be absolutely necessary for the occasion.
Given onboard the Roebuck at Philadelphia 7the. Decmr. 1777.
A S Hamond.
LB, ViU, Hamond Papers, Orders Issued, 1776-1777. Addressed flush left below signature line: “Capt. H. Bellew/ —Liverpool."
1. Journal of H.M.S. Liverpool, 1 Nov., above.
