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Cartes et Instruments Nautiques du XVI Siecle. (Manuscript) 1973 WTS/37/19
Paper on maps and nautical instruments of the sixteenth century, in French, by M. Marcel Destombes, 23 March 1973.
Operational Research typed history (possibly written by Waters). (Manuscript) WTS/38/3
Typed document marked "Draft" with no title, and another typed copy of the same essay titled "Historical Operations Research and the Admiralty", plus two handwritten notes.
Operational Research: Recollections of Problems Studied, 1940-1945. (Manuscript) 1953 WTS/37/10
Photocopy of article by Professor P.M.S. Blackett from Brassey's Annual: The Armed Forces Year-book, 1953.
Convoy in the age of sail and today. (Manuscript) 1966 WTS/31/7
Typed copy of article dated February 1966, with cuttings from a publication labelled appendix 1 and 2.
Passchendaele and the Navy. (Manuscript) 1960-1963 WTS/31/4
Essay, typed, dated 1963, "Passchendaele and the Navy 1917" by Waters; manuscript notes; a heavily edited copy of the same essay with a letter from the editor of the RUSI Journal, P.K. Kemp, dated 1960.
"Strategic" Bombing of Germany, Second World War. (Manuscript) 1961 WTS/31/2
Manuscript and typed notes, with cuttings from several newspapers and publications on the subject of the British bomber offensive in the Second World War.
Admiralty Annual Examination 1936, and other material from Waters's early career. (Manuscript) 1936-1941 WTS/40/1
Admiralty Annual Examination 1936; 4 further essays by Waters in the 1930s; photograph dated 1941.
Roskill correspondence. (Manuscript) 1945-1980 WTS/40/5
A blue-tape-tied folder of correspondence of a personal nature with Captain S. Roskill 1979-1980, along with personal documents of Waters’ relating to his retirement from the Navy c.1950, and other pieces of correspondence largely dated 1945.
Dutch Bibliography. (Manuscript) WTS/41/4/1
Folder marked "Dutch Bibliography" containing several sets of handwritten and typed notes and index cards about various Dutch authors and works of navigation, such as Cornelius Anthonisz.
Het Boek. (Manuscript) WTS/41/4/2
Folder marked with notes about several editions of Het Boek, containing two copies of an English translation of a Dutch navigational text, notes about Cornelius Anthonisz.
Surface and air anti-submarine escort of shipping in convoy, and anti-submarine transit area patrols in two World Wars. (Manuscript) 1953 WTS/30/2
Surface and air anti-submarine escort of shipping in convoy, and anti-submarine transit area patrols in two world wars, Historical Research Memorandum No. 1, marked "Confidential", authored by Waters and Commander F. Barley, May 1953.
Poems and quotes, non-academic. (Manuscript) WTS/40/6
A folder titled "Poems etc" containing a cutting about the poetry of Keith Douglas from the Listener, 1962, and a few handwritten pages of quotes and jokes.
Tijdschrift voor Boek. (Manuscript) WTS/41/4/3
Folder containing two typed copies of notes about The Wisbuy Reading-Chart Book.
The Art of Navigation by Agostino Cesareo (1568). (Manuscript) WTS/41/4/7
The Art of Navigation by Agostino Cesareo (1568), typed copy of Engish translation by K. Ostberg.
Italian navigation. (Manuscript) WTS/41/4/8
Subfolder containing notes about an unpublished navigational work written in 1464 by Benedetto Cotrugli; a typed 'Precis' about the Compasso da Navigare, with handwritten notes attached; a heavily annotated typed document about the same Italian work, and how it was used historically; a typ…
Pamphlets arranged alphabetically by author: Arthur Beer to Sir Edward Bullard. (Manuscript) WTS/43/2
Offprints of essays and articles from various publications, arranged by author:
Beer – article reprint from Vistas in Astronomy;
Behrmann – article in German;
Bernleithner – article in German;
Binns – 1 article on Medieval Scandinavia;
Borthwick – 1 article;…
A Tenth Mariner's Astrolabe. (Manuscript) 1957 WTS/33/13
Reprinted from the Journal of the Institute of Navigation, Vol. X, No. 4, October 1957.
Pamphlets arranged alphabetically by author: Max J. Guedes to Barbara M. Kreutz. (Manuscript) WTS/43/6
Offprints of essays and articles from various publications, arranged by author:
Guedes, Max J. – 4 articles;
Hartner, Willy – 3 articles;
Hellman, C. Doris – 4 articles;
Herve, Roger – 1 article in French;
Hooykaas, R. – 1 article in Portuguese;…