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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
ADM/A/1797/96
Enclosure: Copy of a letter drawing attention to irregularities at Chatham including poaching, embezzlement and lack of fuel. The names of certain persons are given. No date recorded.
Drawings relating to the PELORUS. (Manuscript)
CHR/30/A-E
Drawings showing boats' sails, damage to the PELORUS, the manner of stowing boats and booms in a 16-gun brig, an improved cat block by J L Higgins and some unidentified, n.d.
Portsmouth Dockyard (Manuscript)
1799-06-01
ADM/Y/P/132
Sections of caisson in Portsmouth Dockyard 1799 'N.B. This is a copy of the original drawing received from Portsmouth June 1799 and returned to the Portsmouth Officers July following', coloured
Various papers relating to the First World War, 1915-1916. (Manuscript)
1915-1916
CNM/4
Various papers relating to World War 1 1915 - 1916 including cartoon, drawing of crest with estimate of cost (3 items).
Journal, Vol II., of the proceedings of HMS ALEXANDER. (Manuscript)
1779-1782
PAK/2
Journal, Vol II., of the proceedings of HMS ALEXANDER, June 1779-December 1782. Showing charts and line of battle, also a drawing of HMS ALEXANDER
The description of the forme & manner of oure incampment in the Lord Generalls Northeren Journey (Plan; Manuscript)
circa 1600
P/49(34)
Bound sheet. ms. Medium: Laid on linen. Uncoloured version of P/49(35). Additional Places: Ireland.…
Recto: The fleet runs into danger as they approach Chatham because the pilots mistakenly direct the ships into shallow water. Verso: Barlow has a severe illness as a result of his earlier head wound, and convalesces at a cook shop in Whitechapel, where he is put to work. (Manuscript)
1659
JOD/4/41-42
Page 41 and 42 of Edward Barlow's journal.
Page 41 (recto): The fleet sails to Hollesley Bay, Suffolk, and then continues on to Chatham. Due to an error by the pilots the ships run into great danger because the water is very shallow as they approach Chatham.
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[Chart of Lerwick Harbour, Shetland]. (Manuscript)
circa 1821
CMP/47/1/23
Unfinished chart drawn in ink showing Bressay Sound and the town of Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland. No date or signature has been added.
Logbook of J L Smith, midshipman, ADVENTURE, 1789-90; LEOPARD, 1793, Africa. (Manuscript)
1789-1793
LOG/N/16
Logbook of J L Smith, midshipman, ADVENTURE, 1789-90; LEOPARD, 1793, Africa.
This item requires specialist conservation treatment and is currently unfit for production. Please contact staff for further information.…
Papers relating to Antigua Dockyard, 1789. (Manuscript)
1789
RAI/107
Antigua Yard Documents, (very torn), 1789.
[Plan of an encampment] (Plan; Manuscript)
circa 1600
P/49(36)
Bound sheet. Col. ms. Medium: Laid on linen. Unfinished copy of P/49(35). Additional Places: Ireland.…
Report on the handling of HMS MARATHON during a typhoon in the South China Sea, 1900. (Manuscript)
1900
FIE/102
Report on the handling of HMS MARATHON during a typhoon in the South China Sea in November 1900, including newspaper cuttings from 'The Straits Times' and a rough drawing in coloured pencil.
Sketches by Capt Marryat including of Napoleon, 1821 (Manuscript)
circa 9 May 1821
MRY/7&9-10
Capt Marryat's framed and original sketch of Napoleon Bonaparte after death at St Helena. Marryat attended Napoleon's funeral on 9 May 1821.
Notebook on siege batteries, undated. (Manuscript)
circa 1830
DBB/110/1
Partly used volume with 49 pages of notes on different kinds of batteries, embrasures, epaulments, and working parties for construction, including drawings, undated. It presumably relates to Dobbie’s training circa 1830.
Shipbuilders And Repairers National Association (Manuscript)
1959 - 1965
SRNA/1/5145/A1
Shipbuilding Employers Federation Files- Technical education of drawing office and technical personel, 1959-1965
Loose papers relating to the Battle of Navarino, and J.H. Boteler's work aboard the LYRA. (Manuscript)
1825-1827
BTL/1/2/2
Loose papers relating to the Battle of Navarino and J.H. Boteler's work immediately prior to this event, including: a note to Captain Ommanney HMS ALBION from Admiral Beauclerk 20 March 1826; two plans of the Burlings and Bay of Peniche taken from Admiralty charts, with soundings by J.H.…
Unbound booklet entitled 'Our National Defences' by Sir William H. Hall. (Manuscript)
1876
HLL/7/6
The booklet concerns his contribution to developing national defences.
Uncatalogued (Manuscript)
1886-1885
MSS/85/055
One Manuscript "Round the world in a Sailer 1886 - 1887" a voyage in the "Marlborough" and manuscript journal of New Zealand (South Island) 1886-1887 Notes of a short visit to South Island and New Zealand by James Ellia (1846 -1893) inside are maps and a drawing of a dinosaurs …
Thomas Keith Hudson Midshipman logbook of three voyages. (Manuscript)
1850-01-01-1853-06-30
HUD/1/1
Thomas Keith Hudson Midshipman Logbook of “FISGARD” 1st January 1850 to 15th August 1850 Commodore Eden; “DAUNTLESS”- Lisbon Mediterranean West Indies 16th August 1850 to 22nd October 1852 under Captain E. P. Halstead with newspaper clipping and drawing and “VICTORY” for leave to 30th June 1853.
Illustration: "Huts at Benguela page 15 Ch 17 / No. 36". (Manuscript)
1822-1823
BTL/2/1/23
Black ink drawing of three dome-shaped huts, with a man and a pot cooking over a fire in the foreground. Benguela is now a city in western Angola, south of Luanda, and capital of Benguela Province. By this point, the ships had travelled round the Cape of Good Hope to the West Coast of Africa.
Uncatalogued: Joseph Brown, merchant. Journal 1825, 1866 and 1843, and 6 watercolours. (Manuscript)
1825-1866
MSS/67/076
Diary (slim volume, starts 8 June 1825); biographical notes, 9 pages; journal of a voyage from Southampton to Callao, 1866 (10 pages); journal of a voyage from London to Carthagena in 1825 (20 pages); journal of a voyage from the Thames to the Bosphorus in 1843 (8 pages); drawing of a paddle steamer…
Journal of a member of the crew of the L'EGERIE of Toulon, 1842-1844. (Manuscript)
1842-1844
JOD/196
Journal of a member of the crew of the L'EGERIE of Toulon, a former pupil of an Ecole de Marine and a convert to Catholicism, mainly concerned with religious issues, 1842-44.
Private ledger No.2 - B J Sutherland, 1877-87. (Manuscript)
1877-1887
SUD/2/14
Private ledger No.2 - B J Sutherland, 1877-87, B J Sutherland & Co Ltd.
This item requires specialist conservation treatment and is currently unfit for production. Please contact staff for further information.…
Sealed letters to Captain John Spratt Rainier of HMS NORGE, 1813. (Manuscript)
1813
RAI/12/2
Sealed letters from Admiral William Young to Captain John Spratt Rainier of HMS NORGE, sent from HMS IMPREGNABLE, April 1813.
This item requires specialist conservation treatment and is currently unfit for production. Please contact staff for further information.…
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