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HM Dockyard, Portsmouth
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Letters from Lady Porter to Sir James Porter, biography by S.G. Beaumont, press cuttings, and other letters. (Manuscript)
1897-1932
PTR/11
Letters of Lady Porter numbered 1-113, DORIS, 1897-1900, press cuttings, other letters.
Overseas Containers Limited (OCL) Executive Committee Meeting Minutes. (Archive)
1974-07-01 - 1974-12-31
PON/1/3/12
OCL Executive Committee Meeting Minutes July 1974 – December 1974. Includes UK Port Policy; drawing of Tilbury docks; 5 year container requirement forecasting; business system review – long term working party; OCL Flat reviews. Terminal Inspection/ dangerous goods.
Letter from Susannah about excursion to Spain. (Manuscript)
1806-05-06 - 1806-05-06
MDT/17
Letter from Mrs Susannah Middleton to her sister Miss Marion Leake, Gibraltar, 6 May 1806, Captain Middleton still unwell, been on excursion to Spain, disappointed cannot travel further but roads covered in deep sand, dined at the Spanish Inn, asks to be sent a carpet for the drawing room and linen …
A selection of newspaper cuttings about John Marshall. (Manuscript)
1832-1850
MSH/6
A selection of newspaper cuttings including a London Gazette 13 July 1832 about Captain John Marshall receiving his Knighthood Companion of the Most honourable Military Order of the Bath, and Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order; and newspaper clippings of John's fatal accide…
Furse Papers - group of miscellaneous items. (Manuscript)
1918-1919
DAU/73
Furse Papers - group of miscellaneous items, including: handwritten verse with an envelope addressed to the WRNS HQ in the UK, 20 Dec 1918; 2 copies of a leaflet, 'Britain's Dangerous Nuisance - An Allegory & A Parallel' by Minimus, nd; and a drawing of a WREN in uniform date 1918…
Memorandum concerning his activities at Gibraltar on the 10th August with pen and ink
drawing
of the
1880-05-21
CRJ/41
Written on HMS TURQUOISE at Coquimbo, Chile.
Illustration: "Fetiche dance Cape Lopez page 28 Ch 18 / No. 41". (Manuscript)
1822-1823
BTL/2/1/25
Black ink and watercolour drawing of a group of people dancing and playing music. One dancer is on stilts and wearing an elaborate, otherworldly costume and mask. Cape Lopez is a 55 km-long peninsula on the coast of West-Central Africa, in the country of Gabon.
Drawings made by Edward Henry Columbine in Sierra Leone, 1810-1811. (Manuscript)
1810-1811
CMP/50/2/7
Drawings made by Columbine while he was in Sierra Leone as governor of the colony in 1810-1811. Including detailed pencil drawings of buildings in Freetown and the fort on Bunce Island.
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Overseas Containers Limited (OCL) Executive Committee Meeting Minutes. (Archive)
1971-05-31 - 1971-12-31
PON/1/3/7
OCL Executive Committee Meeting Minutes May 1971 – December 1971.…
Illustrations: "Portuguese Land at Quillimane, Page 15 Ch 6 / No. 21". (Manuscript)
1822-1823
BTL/2/1/17
Black ink drawing of a church, possibly the cathedral which still survives, at Quelimane (Boteler has used an approximate spelling of the name). The town originated as a Swahili trade centre, and then grew as a slave market.…
Illustrations: "St Mary Madagascar / Chapter IV" and "A dance at St Mary Madagascar / Chapter IV". (Manuscript)
1822-1823
BTL/2/1/16
Two black ink drawings, one for the man in the hat with a caged bird (see BTL/2/1/13) titled "St Mary Madagascar" and the other depicting four women dancing, or possibly the same woman depicted in four different positions.
Illustration: "St Mary Madagascar, natives spearing fish / Chapter 4". (Manuscript)
1822-1823
BTL/2/1/15
Black ink drawing of two people in a small boat, one about to spear a fish, and one steering the boat. Very faint traces of an erased drawing of a woman dancing are visible.
Drawings of SMS BADEN, n.d. (Manuscript)
GIL/5
Drawings of SMS BADEN, n.d.
Examination records and photograph album from HMS BRITANNIA, Dartmouth, 1866-1870. (Manuscript)
1866-1870
SOC/24
See item level records.
Views of islands and a port in the Indian Ocean. (Manuscript)
1670
JOD/4/151
Views of two islands "called Corotore & Bossey... in the Straights of Sindey", most likely to be Krakatoa and Sebesi in the Sunda Strait, Indonesia. Below is a drawing of a port, "Belopotan", on the west coast of India.
The discription of the forme and mannre of our in campment in the Lord Generalls Northen Journey (Plan; Manuscript)
circa 1600
P/49(35)
Bound sheet. Col. ms. Medium: Laid on linen. Cartographic Note: The inspiration for this drawing was very probably the English translation of Machiavelli's 'L'arte della guerra', published in London in 1573.…
Memorandum concerning his activities at Gibraltar on the 10th August with pen and ink
drawing
of the
1837 - 1880
CRJ/37-41
See item descriptions.
Papers of The National Institution for Preservation of Life from Shipwreck 1824-1852 (Manuscript)
1824-1852
RNLI
The collection is a segment of the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck's originating archive, consisting of 354 letters and documents (including some photocopies).
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Flinders, Matthew, Captain, 1774-1814 (Manuscript)
FLI/18/7
Pencil drawing showing foliage in Mauritius.
Flinders, Matthew, Captain, 1774-1814 (Manuscript)
FLI/18/6
Pencil drawing showing a landscape with a waterfall, perhaps in Mauritius.
A collection of drawings by Henslow with papers. (Manuscript)
1748-1763
HSL/1
Pen and ink sketches for decoration of the ships THUNDERER 1760; CONQUEROR 3rd rate 1758; ARROGANT 3rd rate 74 gun 1761; BLENHEIM 2nd rate 1761; NAUTILUS 1762; TAMER 1758 with the DOLPHIN on discovery; GUADULUPE 1763 and SEAHORSE 1748; 1 drawing of a 64 gun ship model 1790; Miniature of Sir John Hen…
Recto: Views of islands and a port in the Indian Ocean. Verso: A cargo of pepper is taken on board at Pannanie. Barlow describes the local customs, such as Devil worship and the chewing of betel nut. (Manuscript)
1670
JOD/4/151-152
Page 151 and 152 of Edward Barlow's journal.
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Woolwich Dockyard (Manuscript)
18c
ADM/Y/W/15-16
Plan and drawing of the Pay Office Woolwich Dockyard 18 century?
Flinders, Matthew, Captain, 1774-1814 (Manuscript)
FLI/18/5
Pen and ink drawing showing huts and trees in Mauritius.
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