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Extract from Salisbury Journal on 25th December 1739 quoting a letter from Benjamin Windsor concerning the crew of the John and Mary, Captain Botley, made prisoners of war in Gijon, Spain.
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Transcription of extract from the Salisbury Journal 11th March 1740 reads:
"By a private letter from one of our poor countrymen, prisoner in Spain, to his father at Pool, we are informed, that all the English are threatened with being starved in a prison if they will not enter into the Spanish service."
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Extract from Salisbury Journal on 15th April 1740 quoting a letter from John Morris to his wife in Poole. He describes the conditions he is detained in as a prisoner of war in Corunna, Spain.
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Extract from Salisbury Journal of 16th October 1739 concerning a letter that Mr Gleed of Poole received from his son in Spain about Spanish privateers.
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Museum Ref No: B4a_0109Captured German submarine U107 at Poole Quay 1919 with a crowd of spectators.
From the Ernest Bristowe collection.
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