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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-09-19 ADM/A/1769/87
To make allowance of Bounty to the Widow and children of Thomas Roberts late Carpenter the PORTSMOUTH, died of wounds in French captivity.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-12-30 ADM/A/1790/219
The Widows and Relations of some of the Marines said to have served in the CHARLES GALLEY have Petitioned for compensation. An Order is given for strict enquiry to be made as to their entitlement.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-06-12 ADM/A/1775/42
A pension of £300 a year to be paid to Mrs Rebeccah Hayter, widow of Mr Thomas Hayter, late Principal Officer and Commissioner.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-02-29 ADM/A/1781/194
Upon the humble petition of the widows of the seamen of the CORONATION, which by weather and the springing of a leak was cast away near Plymouth, praying His Majesty's Bounty Money for their loss, His Majesty is pleased to grant 4 1/2 months of their husbands' pay and allowances at the ti…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-02-17 ADM/A/1781/105
Your report of 12 February on the petition of Margaret Pratt, widow of John Pratt, Mariner which states that it appears by a certificate from Captain Carter, late Commander of the PLYMOUTH, that John Pratt was killed in an engagement with the French at Bantry Bay on 1 May 1689.…
Photographs of the Mediterranean Station, circa 1898-1900. (Manuscript) circa 1898-1900 NOE/56/2
Eight albumen prints relating to Noel’s appointment as Second in Command, Mediterranean, 1898-1900. Two prints show the Mediterranean Squadron anchored in Phalerum Bay, Greece, in 1898. Another shows the battleship HMS REVENGE (1892), surrounded by signatures of officers serving with Noel in 1899.…
Letter from Captain Richard P.F. Purefoy, 1907. (Manuscript) 1907 NOE/52/3/3
Letter discussing two enclosed Nelson relics for Noel to have for his own collection, sent by Captain Richard P.F. Purefoy, in command of the armoured cruiser HMS BLACK PRINCE (1904), 1st Cruiser Squadron, dated 2 October 1907.
Papers relating to HMS BRITANNIA, 1896-1922. (Manuscript) 1896-1922 THU/114/1
Papers relating to Thursfield’s training as a cadet on HMS BRITANNIA at Dartmouth between January 1897 and May 1898, including examination papers, certificates, term reports, details of prizes and expense accounts.…
Printed material relating to the visit of the French Fleet, 1905. (Manuscript) 1905 THU/5/3
Printed material relating to the visit of the French Fleet to the Solent, between 7 and 14 August 1905, including invitation cards, programmes, arrangements for representatives of the press (in English and French), plans showing positions of the French and British fleets, and lists of officers.…
Papers relating to Thursfield's appointments, 1930-1932. (Manuscript) 1930-1932 THU/115/3
Papers from the period of Thursfield’s command of the battleship HMS ROYAL OAK (1914), flagship of the First Battle Squadron in the Mediterranean, between 1930 and 1932.…
Papers relating to Thursfield’s appointments, 1922-1925. (Manuscript) 1922-1925 THU/115/2
Papers relating to Thursfield's appointments in the Mediterranean in the period from 1922 to 1925, including his command of HMS CONCORD (1916) and then HMS COMUS (1914), and marriage to Celia E. Taylor at Malta.…
Certificate of the Order of the Nile, 1918. (Manuscript) 1918 THU/114/5
Certificate of the Order of the Nile (Fourth Class), conferred on Thursfield by the Sultan of Egypt for distinguished services rendered during the First World War, see ‘Supplement to The London Gazette’ published on 29 October 1918. With some related letters from the Admiralty and British Museum.
Issue of ‘Khaki’ magazine, 1915. (Manuscript) 1915 THU/5/4
Issue of ‘Khaki’ magazine from October 1915, including an article by Thursfield about Admiral Charles Middleton, first Baron Barham (1726-1813) entitled ‘Lord Barham: A Strategic Study’.
Letters and telegrams from family and friends, 1912-1917. (Manuscript) 1912-1917 THU/4/2/5
Letters to James Richard Thursfield and his wife, from family and friends, mainly concerning their son Henry G. Thursfield, his promotion to the rank of commander and subsequent appointments, dated between 22 September 1912 and 12 June 1917.…
Letters concerning his son's progress as a naval cadet on HMS BRITANNIA, 1897-1898. (Manuscript) 1897-1898 THU/4/2/2
Letters to James Richard Thursfield, discussing the progress of his son Henry G. Thursfield as a naval cadet on HMS BRITANNIA at Dartmouth. There are letters from Vice-Admiral John A. Fisher, Captain Assheton G. Curzon-Howe, the journalist Charles N. Robinson and the instructor James M. Pask.
Letters from James Richard Thursfield to his family, 1891-1905. (Manuscript) 1891-1905 THU/4/1
Letters from James Richard Thursfield to family in the period from 1891 to 1905:

(1) Letter to his son Henry G. Thursfield at Fairhill, Great Berkhamsted, sent from the battleship HMS SANS PAREIL (1887) off Scarborough, dated 30 July 1891.…
Examination results and passing certificates, 1899-1907. (Manuscript) 1899-1907 THU/114/4
Certificates and other papers relating to Thursfield’s training as a junior officer:
(1) Printed lists of marks obtained in the annual examination of junior officers of the Channel Squadron, issued by Vice-Admiral Harry H. Rawson, dated 28 July 1899 and 11 July 1900.…
Journal kept by John Richard Alexander on HMS ORESTES and HMS ILLUSTRIOUS, circa 1842-1844. (Manuscript) 1842-1844 AXR/102/1
Notebook containing a journal kept by Alexander, beginning with a voyage from Spithead to Bermuda on the sloop HMS ORESTES (1824), between 31 October and 13 December 1842.…
Letters, loose notes and newspaper cuttings, includes sketches of some of Gowers’ inventions. (Manuscript) 1794-1933 JOD/74/2
Loose notes and newspaper cuttings, includes sketches of some of Gowers’ inventions: a patent log, and of the first transit. Copy of letter by Gowers’ son on the performance of transit three in 1819.…
General notebook with outline of watch, quarter and station bill kept by R A Oliver while serving in HMS QUEEN, 1842-1844. (Manuscript) 1842-1844 BEL/51
General notebook with outline of watch, quarter and station bill kept by R A Oliver while serving in HMS QUEEN, 1842-1844
General orders and memo with index, 1840-1850. (Manuscript) 1840-1850 BEL/52
General orders and memo. compiled with index, 1840-1850
Howe, Richard, Admiral Of The Fleet, 1st Earl Howe, 1726-1799 (Manuscript) 1772 HOW/8/B
Regulations and Instructions Relating to His Majesty's Service at Sea, Eleventh Edition, printed in 1772.
Howe, Richard, Admiral Of The Fleet, 1st Earl Howe, 1726-1799 (Manuscript) HOW/9
Selected extracts from Regulations and Instructions, printed, n.d.
Log of the prize LA PUGLIESE, 1809-1810. (Manuscript) 1809-1810 PLL/89
Log recording the proceedings of the prize LA PUGLIESE, kept by the master, Richard Hildyard, from 8 September 1809 onwards. It also covers the movements of the crew as prisoners of war after the vessel was wrecked near Brindisi on 4 October 1809.
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