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to your consideration.
By my reports to your Honorable [Board?] after being obliged to put back to Sheerness with the loss of Two Anchors I beg to recall your attention to the crank state of the Porpoise as I have no doubt she would have reached the Downes long before the Gale became so violent had she been stiff enough to have stood under a very moderate sail, instead of which I had the mortification to see several small vessels pass me with all their small sails set while the Porpoise would not bear her Mainsail or Top Gallant Sails. As the Hold was stowed under my own inspection before the Ship left Deptford, I can safely assert that her crankness was by no means owing to any improper stowage, but on being supplied with the Twenty Tons additional Iron Ballast in order to place it to the best advantage. I
unstowed