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Uncatalogued: Yachting journals of Aubrey Stewart, for the AUGUSTA and DINAH, plus assorted papers. (Manuscript)
1903-1906
MSS/86/042
Includes: Yachting journals of Aubrey Stewart, for the AUGUSTA, 1906 and the DINAH, 1903-1906; printed list yachting fixtures for 1903; letter dated 26 April 1904 fro Joseph Constant to Aubrey Stewart, offering to buy the DINAH; letter from Samuel West Ltd, barge builders and repairers, advertising …
Uncatalogued: Letters of Patent for a Propeller, dated January 1855. (Manuscript)
1855-01-01
MSS/82/045
PEACOCK, George, Letters of Patent for a Propeller, dated January 1855.
Patent attached to a Royal Seal of Queen Victoria and presented boxed.…
Thomas Keith Hudson Midshipman logbook of HMS SYBILLE (Manuscript)
1853-07-01 - 1855-07-23
HUD/1/2
Thomas Keith Hudson Midshipman Logbook of HMS SYBILLE 1st July 1853 to 23rd July 1855 with drawing and chart.
Illustration: "Malegasch charm - real size, alligators teeth / No. 33". (Manuscript)
1822-1823
BTL/2/1/21
Black ink and watercolour drawing of a brightly coloured blue, red yellow and brown object, which appears to be a cylinder shape, with three alligator teeth pointing out of one end. "Malegasch" is a term Boteler sometimes uses in his writing to describe people or things from Madagascar.
Navy Board, Lieutenants' Logs (Manuscript)
1781-1782
ADM/L/S/207
Lieutenant's logbooks for HMS SATISFACTION 1780 - 1782; HMS SCOURGE 1780 - 1783; HMS SEAFORD 1780 - 1782; HMS SHARK 1781 - 1782.
This item requires specialist conservation treatment and is currently unfit for production. Please contact staff for further information.…
Photographs and
drawing
of airships.
YKM/3/12/2
Various photographs of airships including: postcard showing a zeppelin over Basel, dated 4 August 1908; ‘B’ class Argentinian airship model, dated July 1976; Chalais type dirigible, in flight at Brest, undated.
HM Surveying Brig Protector passing thro' the Weatherness Passage between the Isles of Westra and Faira, Orkney. (Manuscript)
circa 1821
CMP/47/1/16
Pen and ink drawing showing the survey brig HMS PROTECTOR (1805) passing through Weatherness Sound between the islands of Westray and Holm of Faray, Orkney, Scotland. Signed by Horatio N. Head.
Illustration: "Delagoa Boat, East Coast of Africa, Scale of 1/3 of an inch to a foot / Ch II". (Manuscript)
1822-1823
BTL/2/1/9
Black ink drawing (over pencil sketch) of a boat from above and from the side, with a scale of feet which suggests the boat would have been around 20 feet long. There is a detail of the stern in the top left corner.
Collection of material on Chinese craft; Tsing tao and Ta-Pu-To craft. (Manuscript)
circa 1937
WTS/15
Collection of photographs, drawings and notes on Chinese craft; Tsing tao and Ta-Pu-To craft. Includes a drawing dated and signed by Waters, 1937.
Illustration: "Hats of the Portuguese at St Michael / No. 46". (Manuscript)
1822-1823
BTL/2/1/27
Black ink and watercolour drawing of a man wearing a blue hat with a wide brim at the front and a long hanging piece of fabric at the back. Drawn three times: first from the back, then the front, then the right side. St Michael is known as São Miguel or The Green Island, the largest of the Azores.
Illustration: "Chief at Fernando Po page 26 Ch 19 / No. 44". (Manuscript)
1822-1823
BTL/2/1/26
Black ink and watercolour drawing of an African chief with a spear and a very distinctive hat decorated with two small skulls. Fernando Po is an island now known as Bioko, which lies 32 km off the west coast of Africa, and is now the northernmost part of Equatorial Guinea.…
Navy Board, Lieutenants' Logs (Manuscript)
1781-1783
ADM/L/S/174
Lieutenant's logbooks for HMS SALAMANDER 1781 - 1783; HMS SAVAGE 1781 - 1782; HMS SCEPTRE 1781 - 1782; HMS SCOURGE 1783; HMS SCOUT 1781 - 1783.
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Letter to his mother, mentioning he will not be home that winter, 1689. (Manuscript)
1689
FFX/6/1/21
Letter to his mother, mentioning he will not be home that winter, 1689.
Illustration: "Delagoa Hut Page 11 Chapter 2 / No. 3". (Manuscript)
1822-1823
BTL/2/1/3
Watercolour and black ink drawing of a hut with a fenced courtyard on the coast at Delagoa. Inside the courtyard five individuals are depicted, one of whom is cooking over a fire. A survey vessel can be seen anchored in the distance.
Clarke, Thomas Brooke, Reverend, Auditor of the Greenwich Naval Asylum, 1757-1833. (Manuscript)
1800-1821
CLA
This collection consists of sixty-six letters almost all of them letters received by Clarke while he was auditor of the Naval Asylum at Greenwich.…
Letters from Victor Proctor to his family. (Manuscript)
1915-1947
PRT/3/5
Letters dated 1915 to 1945 from Victor William Lake Proctor to his family, HMS HERMES while at Hong Kong, Naval Air Station which includes his feelings of the sinking of HMS COURAGEOUS and reflecting on the early stages of the war 1939, a drawing of Wren Church Hit before and after the bomb that hit…
Illustrated log of HMS ST ALBANS and HMS AFRICA (Manuscript)
1809-08-08 - 1810-12-17
POK/1/2
Log kept by William Innes Pocock as master's mate on HMS ST ALBANS, commanded by Captain Francis William Austen, covering a voyage from the East Indies to England, between 8 August 1809 and 25 November 1810.…
Document signed by William Bridgeman, c.1646-1699, English civil servant and Secretary to the Admiralty between 1694 and 1698. (Manuscript)
1697-01-23
ADM/A/1838/255
Enclosure: Copy of a letter to Lord Berkeley, Commander in Chief of HM Fleet, regarding the poor quality of Slops as supplied and drawing attention to the selling of same aboard ships.…
Journals of Edward Beck, 1823-1829. (Manuscript)
1823-1829
JOD/266
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Letter from Susannah about her visits to other ladies in Gibraltar and plans for Christmas Day. (Manuscript)
1805-12-21 - 1805-12-21
MDT/7
Letter from Mrs Susannah Middleton to her sister Miss Marion Leake, Gibraltar, 21 Dec 1805, visited other ladies in Gibraltar, plans for Christmas Day, killed one of their hogs, servants making black pudding and sausages, speculating about return to England.
Letter from Susannah about family news and feelings about being separated from family. (Manuscript)
1807-12-30 - 1807-12-30
MDT/52
Letter from Mrs Susannah Middleton to her sister Miss Marion Leake, Gibraltar, 30 Dec [1807], family news, possibilty of Captain Middleton being sent to Halifax, dismay at being separated from her family, would rather go somewhere new than stay in Gibraltar, will send some drawing of the Rock by Cap…
IIlustrated Story Book. - Thomas Leslie (Manuscript)
1879
JOD/247/1
Volume containing several illustrated stories, "Journal of a Castaway", "Ye Pirate" and "The Adventures of Tom and Jerry". The stories are written in a comic book style.
Private illustrated Journal of Dr E H Cree, Volume II, 1838 (Manuscript)
1838 - 1838
CRJ/2
Private illustrated Journal of Dr E H Cree, 1838, Volume II, On board FIREFLY, travels to Egypt, Malta, Beirut, and Ionian Islands and back to Malta; in addition, Cree attends the Swedish Consul's ball at Alexandria
General notebook, probably begun circa 1830, with bird fragments. (Manuscript)
circa 1830
STK/26/1-2
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