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Letter, Superintendent of Signal Schools to Commander in Chief, H.M. Ships and Vessels, Portsmouth, 15 November 1905, re. Automatic Gas Light. (Manuscript)
1905-11-15 - 1905-11-15
MER/117
Lectures on Signals and Other Subjects. 1909 - 1953 (Manuscript)
1909 - 1953
MER/76
Macdonald's signalling methods. 1909. (Manuscript)
1909 - 1909
MER/75
John Brown & Sons, Glasgow. Nautical whist. 1910. (Manuscript)
1910 - 1910
MER/77
Letter, Richard Townsend to the Superintendent of Signal Schools, enclosing a report on, and sketch of, a small masthead, which he has fitted on Tufnell's models for instructional purposes, Chatham, 5 May 1908. (Manuscript)
1908-05-05 - 1908-05-05
MER/72
Hollis' Miniature Flash Tutor. 1909. (Manuscript)
1909 - 1909
MER/74
Typescript, 'The Channel Fleet Cruising Orders Nos. 1 & 2 with Signals (temporary) & Instructions for Deploying into Line-Ahead'. 1909 (Manuscript)
1909 - 1909
MER/73
Searchlight Signalling. 1914. Five letters relating to a trial of a searchlight, which uses ultra violet rays for secret signalling. (Manuscript)
1914 - 1914
MER/90
Signals and Lights for Dredgers. 1913. (Manuscript)
1913 - 1913
MER/86
Intercommunication Between Signal Stations in Ships. 1913-14. (Manuscript)
1913 - 1914
MER/89
J. Carmichael Boyle's system of sound signalling. 1913. (Manuscript)
1913 - 1913
MER/88
Stephenson's supplementary signaller. 1912. (Manuscript)
1912 - 1912
MER/83
Letter, an unidentified Lieutenant to Capt. A. C. Scott of H.M.S. BLONDE,24 November 1913, submitting for his consideration a 'Divisional Scheme of Search by a Destroyer Flotilla'. (Manuscript)
1913-11-24 - 1913-11-24
MER/85
Sergeant C. W. G. Hill's system of visual night semaphore signalling. 1912. (Manuscript)
1912 - 1912
MER/84
Sergeant C. Fox's signalling instructional screen. 1911. (Manuscript)
1911 - 1911
MER/81
Service Documents of George Edward Cullingford, including Certificate of qualification for a Signal Instructor. 1904 (Manuscript)
1904 - 1904
MER/53
War Tactical Exercises. 1905. A pamphlet classified Secret, which contains brief instructions on the use of Cruiser Code cipher numbers. (Manuscript)
1905 - 1905
MER/56
Lieutenant Hardman Jones' System of Signalling in Action. 1905. (Manuscript)
1905 - 1905
MER/55
Signal Book. Includes vocabulary of up to 966 signals; Convoy signals. Loose paper - indicates may have belonged to Beaufort at some point. (Manuscript)
MER/17
Loose leaf Signal Book, with numerous pendant and vane signals. (Manuscript)
MER/16
Numeral Signal book up to 129. (Manuscript)
MER/19
Letters and papers re. Professor Forbes' Invention for Destroyer Recognition Signals. 1903-06; included in folder is Lieutenant Buckle's System of Recognition Signals. (Manuscript)
1903 - 1906
MER/51
Signal Book with Numeral flags, telegraph flags, pendants, compass signals, signal balls and distant signals. Also signal flags of foreign navies. Signed Augustus Phillimore (Manuscript)
MER/18
Signal Book with up to 2998 signals. (Manuscript)
MER/13
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