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Hawes, Benjamin to Merivale, Herman 10 February 1859, CO 60:6, no. 1495, 250.

Abstract
Public Offices document. Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1), Other documents (1).
Hawes forwards a report that the Briseis was destroyed by fire at Sea.
The minutes Put by.
Included in this document is a draft from Lytton to Douglas informing him of the disaster; and an Extract advising that the Briseis, enroute from London to Vancouver Island, was burnt 8th December—in Lat: 21 S. Long: 35 W.
Hawes to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
War Office
10 February 1859
Sir,
I am directed by Secretary Major General Peel to transmit to you, for the information of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, the annexed extract from Lloyd's List, which has been communicated to this Department by the Admiralty, by which it appears that the "Briseis," one of the vessels employed to convey some Men of the Royal Engineers and Military Stores to Vancouver's Island was destroyed by fire at Sea on the 8th December last.
I have etc.
B. Hawes
Minutes by CO staff
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Put by.
ABd 10 Feb
At once.
HM F 10
Other documents included in the file
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Draft, Lytton to Douglas, No. 23, 14 February 1859.
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
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Extract advising that the Briseis, enroute from London to Vancouver Island, "was burnt 8th December—in Lat: 21 S. Long: 35 W."