Author: THE FRIENDSHIP PACKET
Title: For Ramsgate and Margate, the Friendship Packet, Burthen Eighty Tons, a new vessel, Compleatly rigg'd and mann'd. George Ansell, Owner, John Cladinboll, Master... Sails from Woiol-Key, Custom House, on Thursday.
Description: c. 1800? Handbill 125 x 140 mm. John Cladinboll, as second mate, was taken prisoner in 1777 during the American Revolution in a vessel named Friendship and later exchanged. "...he hopes that no Passenger whatever will attempt to introduce, or bring any contraband Goods on board his Vessel, as such an illegal Proceeding will not only subject him to the Loss of his Ship, but that Person so offending, to make good such Loss to him."

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