In January 1819, the London Gazette reported that Parliament had voted a grant to all those who had served under the command of Lord Viscount Keith in 1812, between 1812 and 1814, and in the Gironde. Egmont was listed among the vessels that had served under Keith in the Gironde.[Note 2]
She was converted to serve as a storeship in 1862, and was sold out of the Navy in 1875.[1]
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Notes
↑ A first-class share was worth £167 11s 3¼d; a sixth-class share, that of an ordinary seaman, was worth £1 12s 5¼d.[2]
↑ The sum of the two tranches of payment for that service was £272 8s 5d for a first-class share; the amount for a sixth-class share was £3 3s 5d.[3]
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