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Inclining Experiments for Heeling Error, conducted by Captain Creak, HMS PENGUIN, observations for variation 1905 ACO/4/12/3
Inclining Experiments for Heeling Error, conducted by Captain Creak, HMS PENGUIN, observations for variation, 1905
'A Book of Drafts with Remarks, with Lattitude, Longitude of Places, of the Variation of the Compass 1763 NVP/11
Written by Archibald Hamilton, 'late master's mate of his Majesty's ship St Ann'; English manuscript, navigational details mainly Mediterranean and West Indies, 1763. The title page also indicates he was in HM ship 'Surprise' on a voyage from England to Madeira in 1750.
Admiralty Compass Observatory, 1842-1971 (Manuscript) 1893-04-01 ACO/S&T/20/14
Notes by E W Creak, ACO, on the series of observations of magnetic variation obtained by Lieutenant Hotham, on board the SIRIUS.
Report on the amount of Westerly Variation off the Coast of Great Britain, by Staff Capt. ACO/4/3/4
Report on the amount of Westerly Variation off the Coast of Great Britain, by Staff Capt. Evans, n.d.
Admiralty Compass Observatory, 1842-1971 (Manuscript) 1907-1930 ACO/7/13
Daily record of the variation's of the compass entitled "Variation", 1907-1930, covering Lieutenant Alexander's period at the Admiralty Compass Observatory
Admiralty Compass Observatory, 1842-1971 (Manuscript) 1842-1971 ACO
The Admiralty Compass Observatory Collection comprises correspondence papers and reports, 1842 -1950 transferred from the Public Record Office, The National Archives, Kew in 1983, Papers from the Scientific and Technical Review Section (S&T) 1890 - 1970 acquired in 1993 and 1996 also from the Pu…
Technical memoranda and correspondence from the Admiralty, 1812-1814 (Manuscript) 1812-1814 FLI/7
Technical memoranda and correspondence from the Admiralty, mainly on variation of the compass, and copies of articles on his voyage published in contemporary periodicals in Malay vocabulary and alphabet, 1812-1814. There is also a sketched chart of Wreck Reef numbered FLI/7/22.
Petitions and letter to the Honourable Shipping Company on Samuel Dunn's work. (Manuscript) 1776-1793 BGY/D/4/3
A series of petitions and letters to the Honourable Shipping Company including a blank certificate certifying unto the honourable Committee of shipping signed by Samuel Dunn, that the holder has been taught the tables for correcting Refraction and Parallax of the use of Hadley’s sextant in the Lunar…
Log kept by Norborne Thompson on HMS SEAHORSE, 1798-1799. (Manuscript) 1798-1799 THO/18/A
Log kept by Norborne Thompson on the frigate HMS SEAHORSE (1794), commanded by Captain Edward J. Foote, from March 1798 to July 1799. At the reverse are workings on the variation of the compass, and a copy of the case of Dr Haliburton, see THO/15/B.
Flinders, Matthew, Captain, 1774-1814. (Manuscript) 1791-1812 FLI
The papers are the residue of those presented to the Public Library of Victoria, Melbourne, by Sir William Flinders Petrie (1853-1942).…