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Joan at Oct 16, 2020 11:35 AM

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render it impossible for me to perform the duties of Wreck Receiver of the district without having a Deputy at each of those places - I cannot leave the important business I have to attend to at Hull - to proceed to a place on the Coast or to Bridlington in cases of small matters of wreck - or distress of ships. - I have therefore conferred with Captain Metcalfe, - the Inspecting Commander of the Coast Guard at Bridlington and Lieutenant Shacklock the Lieutenant at that station - and with Lieutenant Stewart of the Coast Guard Station at Hornsea - from all of whoom I have received the most courteous attention - and the readiest assistance in their power - in the discharge of my wreck duties. - on the subject of becoming my Deputy as explained in your preceeding order - and they are unanimous in opinion that being my deputy Receiver of wreck would be incompatible with their duties as officers of the Coast Guard one great obstacle being that by a [?] of their department all correspondence from them must pass through the office of the Controller General of the Coast Guard such a course would no doubt be extremely inconvenient in a correspondence on questions almost purely mercantile in their character - I therefore beg to be allowed to name a civilian at each of the places mentioned - or - probably [?] would be a better course- that I be entirely relieved from the performance of the duty - and that the Inspecting Commander of the Coast Guard at Bridlington for the time being - be appointed Receiver of Wreck for the district in my [?] - when there would

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render it impossible for me to perform the duties of Wreck Receiver of the district without having a Deputy at each of those places - I cannot leave the important business I have to attend to at Hull - to proceed to a place on the Coast or to Bridlington in cases of small matters of wreck - or distress of ships. - I have therefore conferred with Captain Metcalfe, - the Inspecting Commander of the Coast Guard at Bridlington and Lieutenant Shacklock the Lieutenant at that station - and with Lieutenant Stewart of the Coast Guard Station at Hornsea - from all of whoom I have received the most courteous attention - and the readiest assistance in their power - in the discharge of my wreck duties. - on the subject of becoming my Deputy as explained in your preceeding order - and they are unanimous in opinion that being my deputy Receiver of wreck would be incompatible with their duties as officers of the Coast Guard one great obstacle being that by a [?] of their department all correspondence from them must pass through the office of the Controller General of the Coast Guard such a course would no doubt be extremely inconvenient in a correspondence on questions almost purely mercantile in their character - I therefore beg to be allowed to name a civilian at each of the places mentioned - or - probably [?] would be a better course- that I be entirely relieved from the performance of the duty - and that the Inspecting Commander of the Coast Guard at Bridlington for the time being - be appointed Receiver of Wreck for the district in my [?] - when there would