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Document by Sir Edward Hughes, Admiral of the Blue, to Thomas Lumley of HMS ISIS, requesting the discharge of a number of personon (Manuscript)
1782-05-31
PLT/60
Document by Sir Edward Hughes, Admiral of the Blue, to Thomas Lumley of HMS ISIS, requesting the discharge of a number of personon (Manuscript)
1782-06-02
PLT/61
Sick / unserviceable / foreign remove ticket for John Roe, aged 14 years, discharged from HMS ARETHUSA to HMS PRINCE OF WALES, 25 Jul1797. (Manuscript)
1797-07-25
PLT/62
Letter by Sir Edward Hughes regarding victualling of HMS ISIS and missing provisions 1782 (Manuscript)
1782-05-31
PLT/63
Steel's List of the Royal Navy, Dec 1805. (Manuscript)
1805-04-15
PLT/93
Chart of arctic regions, from the Admiralty Surveys, published by James Wyld, c. 1819, 3rd ed. (Manuscript)
1819
PLT/96
Press warrant, empowering John Platt to impress seamen, dated 26 Dec 1804. (Manuscript)
1804-12-26
PLT/57
Notebook entitled "Folkstone Sea Fencibles, Capt. William Ricketts and Lieutenant John Platt RN". Contains lists of sea fencibles, with various details. (Manuscript)
circa 1809
PLT/76
"A journal of HMS EAGLE 64, Captain Clarke", Trimcomalee - Bombay (Manuscript)
1884-10-10 - 1785-05-01
PLT/8
Steel's List of the Royal Navy, July 1813 (Manuscript)
1813
PLT/94
Newspapers dating from 15 April 1755 - 21 January 1856. (Manuscript)
1755-04-15 - 1856-01-21
PLT/95
Enclosures from 5/1. Includes dimensions of HMS NELSON, 1813, newspaper cutting, dimensions of the George launched at Chatham Yard, September 1827. (Manuscript)
circa 1813-1827
PLT/5/2
Logbook 1 May 1785 - 3 January 1786, Bombay Harbour - Chatham. Includes impressment exemption for Stephen Nobday, dated 21 January 1809 (Manuscript)
1785-05-01 - 1786-01-03
PLT/9
Standing orders, 20 September 1793 and order of battles (undated), issued to HMS ALLIGATOR (Manuscript)
1793
PLT/25
Notebook of general orders, Lieutenant J. Platt, HMS PRINCE OF WALES, 4 June 1797, Fort Royal Bay, Martinique. (Manuscript)
1797-06-14
PLT/27
Signals, HMS PORTO, some with hand-coloured flags. Includes private signals, printed day and night signals, Indiamen and victualler's signal pendants. (Manuscript)
1780-07-30 - 1781-03-29
PLT/33
Platt, John, (Fl.1780-1832) (Manuscript)
18/19
PLT/89-91
Platt, John, (Fl.1780-1832) (Manuscript)
18/19
PLT/55
Various copies of a "Description of the Isle of Trimidade or Ascension Island", by Captain Macdowel. Some copies are in Portugese (Manuscript)
PLT/77
Translation of a journal of the cruise of the Fleet of the Republic, commanded by Admiral Villaret kept daily by the representative of the people. Jean Bon Saint Andre on board La Montagne (Manuscript)
PLT/18
Copy of a letter on the abolition of slavery, "Queens Buildings, Brompton Road, Captain Squires", signed J.P. (Manuscript)
1819
PLT/78
"Interrogatories", presumably used during impressment. Undated. (Manuscript)
PLT/59
Printed book of samples of script and print. (Manuscript)
PLT/92
Undated manuscript volume of signals between private ships and the admiral. Includes loose folio, with coloured flags. (Manuscript)
PLT/42
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