Letter, from Robert Mawgridge to William Griffith

Reference number: EL/M2/6

Date: 26 November 1696

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Account of the effects of thunder and lightning on the Galley ship which was anchored at Smirna [Smyrna] on 26 November 1696
Read to the Royal Society on 8 December 1697

Reference number: EL/M2/6
Earliest possible date: 26 November 1696
Page extent: 3 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Robert Mawgridge

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Robert Mawgridge, Letter, from Robert Mawgridge to William Griffith, 26 November 1696, EL/M2/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_m2_6/letter-from-robert-mawgridge-to-william-griffith, accessed on 16 June 2026

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'A true and exact relation of the Dismal and Surprizing Effects of a terrible and unusual clap of thunder with lightning that fell on the Trumball Gally' communicated by Robert Mawgridge, Kettle drummer unto his Majesty and the Surgeon of the said ship, to William Griffith
Reference number: RBO/7/118

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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
1613-1740 Reference number: EL
Early Letters M2
1691-1736 Reference number: EL/M2

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