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'A Narrative of my Professional Adventures
1790
-1837', by Admiral William Henry DILLON (1780-1857), volume
1820 - 1840
LES/6/7(3)
'A Narrative of my Professional Adventures
1790
-1837', by Admiral William Henry DILLON (1780-1857), volume
1820 - 1840
LES/6/7(7)
'A Narrative of my Professional Adventures
1790
-1837', by Admiral William Henry DILLON (1780-1857), volume
1820 - 1840
LES/6/7(4)
Keith Stewart, FORMIDABLE, by Admiral Richard, Lord Howe in the QUEEN CHARLOTTE at Spithead 25 July
1790
1790-01-01 - ?
MKH/31
Original draft with notes of the logbook of the GUARDIAN, 24 Dec 1789-23 Feb
1790
; with typed transcription
1789-1790-12-31
RUSI/NM/235/ER/7/3
Twenty three letters mainly received by Earl Nelson, with a few family letters,
1790
-1834.
1790-1834
BRP/5
affidavits sworn by naval officers in connection with passing their accounts at the Navy Pay Office,
1790
1790-01-01 - 1830-12-31
RCL/1-4
Vice-Adm: Spanish Mobilisation
1790
: orders received from the Admiralty, 1789-91 (Manuscript)
1789-1791-12-31
ROD/12/1-3
Letters from Joseph Tucker to his brother, Benjamin Tucker,
1790
-26 Feb 1828, including a list of ships
1790 - 1828-02-26
TUC/99
Printed chart showing the Torres Strait and Arafura Sea off the northern coast of Australia, 17 February
1790
1790
FLI/16/10
Ulrich's specifications 1827, astronomical, nautical instruments 1785-1828, sounding machines, ships' logs
1790
1785-01-01 - 1828-12-31
MRF/L/12
Manuscript entitled 'A Narrative of my Professional Adventures
1790
-1837', by Admiral William Henry DILLON
1820 - 1840
LES/6/7
`A Narrative of my Professional Adventures
1790
-1837', by Admiral William Henry DILLON (1780-1857), vols
1820 840
LES/6/7/1-3
sketching book; includes a watercolour by Edward Riou of the GUARDIAN arriving in Table Bay, 22 Feb
1790
1790-01-01 - ?
RUSI/NM/235/ER/3/9
A list of the Navy as it stood on 1st January 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1789,
1790
. (Manuscript)
1784-1790
PST/49/38
Channel and Irish Sea: orders, letters and memoranda from Admiral Richard, Lord Howe 10 Jul-31 Oct
1790
1790-1794-12-31
MKH/7
Eliott, George Augustus, 1st Baron Heathfield, General, 1770-
1790
. (Manuscript)
1746-1787
ELL/500-502
Command of the HEBE, Channel and Irish Sea: orders and letters from the Admiralty 8 January
1790
-21
1790-1793-12-31
MKH/1
issued to Captain Hartwell in the BELLONA by Lord Howe in the QUEEN CHARLOTTE at Spithead, 10 July
1790
1790-01-01 - ?
SIG/B/20
instructions issued to Hood, HEBE, by Admiral Samuel Barrington in the BARFLEUR at Spithead 8 June
1790
1790-01-01 - ?
MKH/29
War, Explanatory of, and relative to the Signals contained in the Signal-book herewith delivered,'
1790
1790-01-01 - ?
TUN/127
An Abstract of the Evidence delivered before a Select Committee of the House of Commons in the years
1790
1791-1791-12-31
MGS/56/1
Channel and Irish Sea: orders, letters and memoranda from various people 22 April
1790
-21 June 1794 including
1790-1794-12-31
MKH/8
the purser, Farquarson, of the boat trip to the Cape, with a typed transcript, 22 Dec 1789-19 January
1790
1789-1790-12-31
RUSI/NM/235/ER/7/1
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