Service documents and letters, relating to the Pacific Station.

Service documents and letters of Charles H Dillon, plus related documents. Certificates in this collection show that Dillon was master or acting master aboard many ships over his long career, including HMS FORTE, RAINBOW, GEYSER, RALEIGH, ILLUSTRIOUS, VICTORY and HM Surveying Vessel THUNDER. Letters include instructions from the Admiralty to Dillon as master of various Pacific vessels, and later letters from Dillon to the First Commissioner of the Admiralty about his pension. Collection also includes a Table of the Deviations of the Standard Compass of HMS DUNCAN (at Portsmouth,1864); a report of a trial sailing of HMS CONSTANCE and RALEIGH (1846); a letter to Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert, Commander in Chief at Montevideo from H.G. Ward (1848); remarks to accompany a plan of the Harbour of Rio Grande do Sul; an account of the storage of water on board HMS RALEIGH; letters from and to the Hydrographic Office; an inkwash portrait of a man; an engraved portrait of William Preston from an original painting by S. Drummond; an account written by George Pritchard, H.B.M. Consul, of a trial involving the murder of a Spanish Mate by an American citizen on the island of Tahiti in 1841; two letters signed Pomare, Queen of Tahiti.