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Jersey Packet

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called at Lymington for a supply of sails and Exmouth for a quantity of fishing tackle arriving Labrador on 24 July. In Labrador she called at Byron's Bay, Eskimo Bay and Nunengoak Bay arriving back in London on 16 November 1770.
116:. In this capacity she made a single voyage from London to Labrador in the summer of same year, under the command of Captain Thomas Mugford with six crew and ten missionaries. She was described in a contemporary letter as 230:
Brief account of the vessel employed in the service of the mission on the coast of Labrador, and of the more remarkable deliverances from imminent peril, which she has experienced from the year 1770 to the present
233:. (from: periodical accounts, Vol. 21, 75-83, 120-33), from the Religion, Science and Culture in Newfoundland and Labrador website, Dr Hans Rollmann, Dept of Religious Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland" 120:...not only a tight and sound ship, but also a prime sailer, readily obedient to the helm, and out-sailing all the vessels on the river on the passage down to Gravesend. 109: 252:
Journal of the voyage of the Jersey packet to Labrador and Newfoundland taken from the papers of Jens Haven and Christian Drachard, 1770
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1770 Brethren's Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel among the Heathen
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and the UK mainland. In 1755 and 1756 she was commanded on this route by
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Brethren's Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel among the Heathen
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of 10 February 1761 where she is reported as arriving in
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sloop
packet boat
Jersey
Channel Islands
Pierre Labey
London Chronicle
Southampton
Brethren's Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel among the Heathen
Moravian Church mission ships
Benjamin La Trobe





"The Gaspe Valpys genealogy website"
"Ship news (Cowes)"
"Brief account of the vessel employed in the service of the mission on the coast of Labrador, and of the more remarkable deliverances from imminent peril, which she has experienced from the year 1770 to the present time. (from: periodical accounts, Vol. 21, 75-83, 120-33), from the Religion, Science and Culture in Newfoundland and Labrador website, Dr Hans Rollmann, Dept of Religious Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland"
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