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The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson

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She steered southward of New Zealand, made Cape Horn, and then sailed to the Falklands.

Grant quitted her when she reached Tristan D'Acunha and obtained a passage in the Ocean as far as Table Bay.
There he shipped on April 12th, 1802, in H.M.S.Imperieuse for England, where he arrived safely, and, in due course, reported himself to the Admiralty.
Three years later he obtained his rank of Commander on January 12th, 1805, with a pension for gallantry in a spirited action off Holland, when in command of the Hawke cutter he was badly wounded.

He subsequently commanded the Raven and Thracian and died at St.Servan in 1833, aged 61..


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