Dear list I have just purchased Naval Service Records from the National Archives for my Great Great Grandfather a Charles W Blunden, but I cannot read it properly or understand it. It read I think: First page reads 16 in the first column and then it looks like Zephur The second page reads 23 October 1837 'Can read write and work a sasm? In the Rule of Three Signed it looks like Com Beris Zephyrs appointed by illegible, ?? Of engineering. I haven't a clue. This chap was in a seven year apprentiship in Midhurst in 1824 to be a Cordwainer and he turns up in 1841 living as a Cordwainer in Kingston on Thames, (there was a large tannery in the town in those days). Can anyone help me here or point me in the right direction please. Jan 10841