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Captain's Orderbook, 20 May-1 Dec 1918 (Manuscript)
1918-1918
RUSI/NM/241/2/2
The Rev A G Kealy's research notes on the subject of 'chaplains in the Royal Navy.' Includes original loose Admiralty records, 1693 and 1697. (Manuscript)
1626-1903
RUSI/NM/137/A/2
List of ships of the Royal Navy with their dimensions, when and where they were built and number of guns, from 16th Century to 19th Century. (Manuscript)
1665-1864
RUSI/NM/61
Logbook for HMS ST GEORGE from Lisbon to England and HM Steam Ship EXMOUTH (Manuscript)
1856-03-05 - 1856-11-23
RUSI/NM/150/5
Lists of Transports, Purchased Paddle Wheel vessels, Mail Steam Packets at British ports, Lazarettos, Surveying vessels,Store ships, Coal depots, Receiving ships, Convict ships, Thames Police vessels, Seamen's Hospitals, Marine Society vessels, Church ships, Coast Guard vessels, Lighters at British ports and Victualling ships at British ports. (Manuscript)
1854-12 - 1864
RUSI/NM/68
Commonplace Book, kept by Captain R D Oliver, including texts of intercepted despatches from Buonaparte in Egypt, n.d. (Manuscript)
RUSI/NM/120
Warrant issued from the Navy Office under instructions from HRH Duke of York, Lord High Admiral, to Clerk of the Cheque and other officers of Woolwich Dockyard re certain work to be carried out on board the Royal Yacht KATHERINE AND ANNE, 5 Dec 1668 (Manuscript)
1668-12-05
RUSI/NM/86/10
Warrant from the commissioners of HM Navy addressed to the officers at Woolwich Dockyard and Ropeyard re certain emoluments and perquisites enjoyed by the officers of the Yard, 1 April 1695, signatures include Peter pett (Manuscript)
1695-04-01
RUSI/NM/86/12
Journal of Captain Edward Riou (1762-1801); miscellaneous biographical material, n.d. (Manuscript)
RUSI/NM/235/ER/1
Lists of Steam vessels on the lakes in Canada, Mail Steam Packets at British ports, Lazarettos, Store ships, Troop ships, Coal depots, Receiving ships, Convict ships, Thames Police vessels, Seamen's Hospitals, Marine Society vessels, Church ships, Coast Guard vessels, Lighters at British ports and Victualling ships at British ports. (Manuscript)
circa 1850
RUSI/NM/70
Royal United Services Institution (Manuscript)
RUSI
Records of ships of the Royal Navy including Muster of HMS TRUSTY and memoire concerning catches at sea. (Manuscript)
circa 1747-1914
RUSI/NM/109
Naval Courts Martial volume of 166 Naval Courts martial on which Adm B W Page sat as a member of the Court 1800 - 1815. (Manuscript)
1800-01-01 - 1815-12-31
RUSI/NM/127-129
Papers of the Benson family including a diary while the family were in Paris and England. (Manuscript)
RUSI/NM/235/R/9
Papers covering indenture for stores of the FOLKESTONE and BLANDFORD. (Manuscript)
1707 - 1719
RUSI/NM/246-247
A series of documents concerning Nelson. (Manuscript)
1794 - 1805
RUSI/NM/201-203&206-209
Admiral Holburne's letterbooks, Portsmouth, 2 vols, 13 January 1759 to 12 August 1765. (Manuscript)
1759-01-13 - 1765-08-12
RUSI/NM/105/B&C
Folder containing the third and fourth parts of a journal kept, 11 September 1796 to 17 October 1796, 1 April 1797 to 15 June 1797 and 27 June 1797 to 21 October 1797. Pacific, Japan. (Manuscript)
1796-09-11 - 1797-10-21
RUSI/NM/132/8-9
Letter from Lieutenant John Pasco to Lt-Col H Baylis, about the hoisting of Nelson's signal at Trafalgar, n.d. (Manuscript)
RUSI/NM/206
Folder containing four letters, copy of Captain Shortland's orders 1807; one from Admiralty Office, 1815 re KCB awarded to Admiral Sir Graham Moore, Nelson Family Tree, by Captain H T Bosanquet, n.d.; Letters on the trial Admiral John Byng, 1757. (Manuscript)
1688
RUSI/NM/91
Logbook of HMS TERRIBLE; HMS MARLBOROUGH and a proposition for building Ships and Vessels with straight timber by Mr Spiller of Chatham Yard. (Manuscript)
1755-1757
RUSI/NM/37&38
Logbook of HMS TERRIBLE, HMS MARLBOROUGH and a folder containing a proposition for building Ships and Vessels with straight timber by Mr Spiller of Chatham Yard. (Manuscript)
1755-1757
RUSI/NM/38
Remarks kept on board HMS CANOPUS, 28 August 1806-4 Dec 1811, by Daniel Daly (Manuscript)
1806-1811
RUSI/NM/86/27
Letter from Lieutenant Richard Bourne commanding the armed Schooner FELIX, to Captain P Campbell of the DORIS reporting his having fallen in with a squadron of the enemy, dated Quiberon Bay 13 January 1805 (Manuscript)
1805-01-13
RUSI/NM/86/25
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