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| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken |
| | Surname | Pigou | | | Rank/ occupation | Captain | | | Unit | EICS Blandford | | | Death date | 7 Dec 1783 | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Date | Nov 1784 | | | Page number | 876 | | | Detail | On the 7th of December last, Capt. Pigou, late commander of the Blandford Indiaman. This unfortunate old officer has been singularly unlucky during the whole of his life. In a former voyage, he had the misfortune to lose his ship at Johanna, on his return to Europe, which made him bankrupt. He then got his command of the Blandford, but, in January, 1782, that ship, on her way from Madras to Calcutta, was attacked by a French frigate off Ganjam, which she bravely fought, and beat off, but the next morning a French line-of-battle ship captured her, and her unfortunate commander was then carried a prisoner with the French fleet. |
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