Six mementos relating to Sir George Biddell Airy, Astronomer Royal, 1835-1881

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ID:	HSR/Z/44/1-6
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	1823 - 1911
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Airy Collection
Measurements:	6 items
Parts:	Records And Descriptions relating to Historical Events (Manuscript) Battle of Trafalgar: including a piece of wood from the deck of HMS VICTORY and a ticket of admission to Nelson's funeral. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/1) Benin Expedition: press cuttings and various letters. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/2) Raid on Zeebrugge, 22-23 Apr 1918: chart, watercolours and press cuttings of Capt Nevil Pritchard. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/3) British military authority banknote and five Japanese banknotes for use in occupied Indonesia, 1939-45. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/4) Mark Robinson: documents issued by and to, consisting of flag signals, lantern signal, secret rendezvous, orders of battle and sailing instructions and special signals. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/5) Account of the Battle of Camperdown by Joseph Brodie, 11 Oct 1797. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/6) Sir Edward Littleton: various correspondence. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/7) J.M. Matria, Consul-General at Tangier: various letters. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/8) Naval Volunteer Home Defence Association: minutes, leaflets and letters relating to the dissolution of the Association. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/9) Wreck of the ROYAL GEORGE and EDGAR: sketches of operation for raising by Col Sir C. Pasley, 1839-40. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/10) Various documents including a report on surveying of the Persian Gulf by George H. Bruck, surveyor to the H.E.I.C. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/11) Documents relating to the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/12) Documents relating to the Rochefort Expedition, 1757. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/13) Mrs Maud Berridge: various papers and photographs. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/14) Capt Hugh Campbell: Capt of the Royal Naval College, of HMS UNDAUNTED, and of HMS BELLEROPHON: various papers. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/15) Horatio Nelson: documents of authenticity of Nelson relics presented to Greenwich Hospital, 1845-46; documents regarding probate of Nelson's last codicil, 1806. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/16) Documents relating to Horatio Nelson (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/17) Horatio Nelson: correspondence regarding Nelson's dress sword and newspaper cuttings containing other references to Nelson relics, 1844-56. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/18) Sir Edward Inglefield, Rear-Adm: correspondence relating to the proposed memorial on the Isle of Wight to Adm Earl Jellicoe; correspondence of Cdr Aubrey F. Inglefield on the same subject. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/19) Capt John Pilford: various documents. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/20) Capt James Cranstoun: various documents. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/21) Capt William Lechmere: collection of orders, signals, instructions and letters, some signed 'Nelson and Bronte'. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/22) Harrison's chronometers: folder containing early 20th century working drawings of Harrison's No. 3 timekeeper; and diagrams of escape wheels of H2 and H3 by RT Gould, 1931-37. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/23) Various documents including manuscript copy of Departmental Court of Enquiry held at Upnor Castle into the fire in the Shifting Room. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/24) Miscellaneous collection of papers. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/25) Collection of miscellaneous naval documents. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/26) Papers of G.R. Askwith relating to the controversy over the America's Cup Races of 1894-95 (DEFENDER against VALKYRIE) (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/27) Collection of miscellaneous naval documents, 1613-1824 relating to various people. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/28) Correspondence relating to the role of the ERZHERZOG FRANZ FERDINAND (1899) in taking Russian refugees from Basra to Vladivostok in 1921. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/29) Papers of Mrs Marion Woolcott (nee Wright), 1885-1965, TITANIC survivor (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/30) Papers relating to Richard Bell and the model of KOPENHAVN. (letter) (HSR/Z/31) Certificates and character references belonging to Albert Norris, Engineer (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/32) Letters relating to the Nore Mutiny of 1797, including a letter from Richard Parker, leader of the Mutineers (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/33) Account of a hurricane experienced by Captain Charles Dudley Parker, HMS THISBE. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/34) Records relating to Edmond Halley's visit to Saint Helena in 1677-1678 (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/35) Small collection of personal papers of Vice Admiral Sir James M. Pipon KBE, CB (1882-1971) (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/36) Small collection of items relating to Henry Downes and HMS BLACK JOKE (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/37) Papers of Lieutenant Cyril Corbet relating to the transit of Venus expedition, 1874. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/38) The Jacob Birnbaum Titanic Collection (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/39) Gulliver, Donald James (Nurse), 1938-1991. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/40) White, Walter (1841-1917), Petty Officer, HMS SCOUT, East Indies, China and Indian Mutiny (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/41) Burning of Smyrna, September 1922. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/42) Battle of Sevastopol, 17 October 1859. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/43) Six mementos relating to Sir George Biddell Airy, Astronomer Royal, 1835-1881 (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/44/1-6) Letter from Captain Henry Kellett to Sir John Barrow about his voyage on HMS RESOLUTE and volume of the Zoology of the Voyage of HMS HERALD. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/45) Press cuttings and typescript article on the loss of the BRITANNIA, and related photographs, 1941. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/46) McClure Arctic Expedition. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/47) SS FRESHFIELD Disaster - Letters from David Lawson on SS FRESHFIELD to his wife and sister, 1904/5; Photocopy of enquiry into the disaster; photographs. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/49) Document listing reasons not to have a governor in Newfoundland and the destruction of fishing trade. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/50) Index book of Masters including those employed by the East India Company and an index book of East India Company ships. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/51) Plan of occupation and administration for Naval Arsenal Kiel, 1945 and post-war. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/52) Papers written by Robert Falcon Scott, relating to the DISCOVERY, 1902-1904, and photocopies of related documents (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/53) List of Danish ships captured, a letter from British Prisoner of War and a Masonic Certificate (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/54) Official despatches (in a volume) and plans of the Battle of Jutland (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/55) Nine photographs by Edward Leicester Atkinson of Scott Antarctic expedition, 1902 and a Zoology book signed by Edward Leicester Atkinson (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/56) Papers relating to the case of Captain Stanley Lord (1878-1962) of the SS CALIFORNIAN and its involvement in the TITANIC disaster in 1912. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/57) Collision between HMS GLADIATOR and US Mail steamer ST PAUL off the Isle of Wight, 25 April 1908. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/58) William Thomas Kerley, Assistant Steward, RMS TITANIC letter and other personal items. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/59)

Six mementos relating to Sir George Biddell Airy, Astronomer Royal, 1835-1881

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