Enclosure 2. 421
Minute by Commodore Boyes, RN.
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Your Excellency.
I am of opinion that the "Jai Ynew" having hoisted colours when the "Forfar" fired a blank (they are described as otherwise) has no ground for complaint as a British ship, she being at the time of ... unknown nationality.
There is no law, international or other, that I know of, compelling a merchant ship to show her colours to a man-of-war of a foreign ...
It is however customary and sometimes advisable to do so. As regards our ships, Article 93 "Queen's Regulations and Admiralty Instructions" directs "should a ship or vessel belonging to any of His Majesty's subjects, including Colonial ...