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Admiralty Compass Observatory
Alan William Halliday Pearsall
Albyn Line Ltd
Algar, Stanley
Anderson, Chief Engineer William
Anderson, William
Armit, Thomas Napier
Austen, Charles John
Beatty, David
Benbow, John
Berry, Edward
Birch, Albert Frederick
Blackburne, H. S.
Blue Star Line Ltd
Board, Navy
Brett, William
British Records Association
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Browne, Thomas
Brownrigg, Douglas Egremont Robert
C. W. Kellock & Co
Cairn Line Of Steamships Limited
Captain John Whittle
Carson, William
Cheal, Henry
Chilcott, John
Clifford, Henry
Coppet, De
Cornwallis, William
Croker, Thomas Crofton
Crowe, James Henry
d'Eyncourt, Eustace Henry William Tennyson
Dand, John
Dannreuther, Hubert Edward
Dannreuther, Tristan
Domvile, Barry Edward
Dorward, A .R. F.
Elkins, Robert Francis
Elphinstone, George Keith
Fairfax, Robert
Fremantle, Edmund Robert
Fund, Royal Seamen's Pension
Furness Withy & Co Ltd
General Steam Navigation Company
Gerbert, Lewis Henry
Gillingham Borough Council
Greene, William Graham
Griggs, Chief Petty Officer Edward Henry
Hamilton, Commander Archibald
Hampshire, Cyril Beauchamp
Harding & Lepard
Head, Horatio Nelson
Henry Clifford
Hood, Alexander
Hood, Samuel
Howson, John
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Ceylon Conferences
Ingram, Bruce Stirling
Ings, Derek Percy
Inspector of Seamen's Wills, Inspector Of Seamen'S
Jones, G.
Kessinger, Albert Remington
Kneller, Godfrey
Laird, Dorothy Stevenson
Le Davis, Edward
Letters
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Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Marsden, Reginald Godfrey
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Naval Manuscripts, Royal United Service Institution
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Nelson, Horatio
Orient Steam Navigation Co Ltd
Orlebar, Eleanor Cuthbert
Paget, Walter Stanley
Parker, William
Parsons, Maurice Cyril
Pearsall, Alan William Halliday
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Penn, William
Penrice, Joseph
Peter George Parkhurst
Phillimore, Augustus
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Quarm, Albert Llewellyn
Registrar General Of Shipping And Seamen
Roddam, Robert
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Royal Navy Club Of 1765 & 1785
Scott, Kathleen
Scott, Robert Falcon
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Shaw, Savill & Albion Company Limited
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Spratt, James
Spratt, Thomas Abel Brimage
Stevens, William
Storch, Walter R.
Story, William Oswald
Sutherland, B.J., & Co Ltd
Thames Nautical Training College, HMS Worcester
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Tillery, John
Tunstall, William Cuthbert Brian
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Wakley, Martin
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Uncatalogued: Journal of Captain EH Seymour, 1885-87 (Manuscript)
1887-09-19 - 1885-04-30
MSS/87/038
Uncatalogued: Photocopies of the correspondence of David Kinnebrook. (Manuscript)
1796-01-01 - ?
MSS/85/146
Uncatalogued: Notebook on the design of armoured ships, 1883 (Manuscript)
1883-01-01 - ?
MSS/86/010
Uncatalogued (Manuscript)
1904-01-01 - ?
MSS/85/119/4
Uncatalogued (Manuscript)
1809-01-01 - ?
MSS/86/026
Uncatalogued (Manuscript)
1907-01-01 - ?
MSS/85/090
Uncatalogued (Manuscript)
1819-01-01 - ?
MSS/86/040
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MSS/85/081
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MSS/85/002
Research on eighteenth century sea songs: including transcripts of songs, music, photographs and printed material (part I) collated by Mr Roy Palmer. (Manuscript)
1700-1800
PMR/1/4
Council of War minutes, Battle of Dungeness. (Manuscript)
1652-11-29
ADL/A/17
Research notes of Alan Pearsall, 1951-1975. (Manuscript)
circa 1951-1973
NOT/43
Diary, 16 August 1867- 25 April 1868 (Manuscript)
1867-1868
CLF/3/1
Uncatalogued (Manuscript)
1388-10-10 - ?
MSS/85/084
Furness Withy settlement (Manuscript)
1911
MSS/88/038
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1892-01-01 - ?
MSS/87/068/2
Uncatalogued (Manuscript)
1919-01-01 - ?
MSS/86/050/2
Collection of survey charts and profiles, mainly by Midshipman Horatio Nelson Head, 1821-1870 (Manuscript)
1821-1870
CMP/47-48
Atlantic Swell, January 1955. (Post card)
1955
ASN/4/9
Unbound booklet entitled 'Our National Defences' by Sir William H. Hall. (Manuscript)
1876
HLL/7/6
Laird, Dorothy Stevenson, Writer and Journalist, 1912-2000. (Manuscript)
1936-1938
LAI
OCL Europe/Indian Sub-Cotenant feasibility study. (Manuscript)
1977 - 1981
PON/7/3/4
Hong Kong/Australia Straits reports and studies. (Manuscript)
1972 - 1979
PON/7/3/1
Navy Board, Lieutenants' Logs (Manuscript)
1779-1783
ADM/L/A/244
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