Uncatalogued: Sim, Edward William Boyd, Captain, 1899-1941

Two boxes in main run: Eight journals and diaries covering the period circa 1914 - 1935, including Sim's service on HMS AMPHITRITE and HMS STERLING. Oversize box: Two scrapbooks containing newspaper cuttings, photographs, ephemera and letters relating to Sim's service in the period 1912-1939. Chart of the southeast coast of China from Hong Kong to the Brothers, circa 1930. Mounted barograph recording from HMS STERLING showing the typhoon at Hong Kong on 22 August 1929. Copies of the Coronation Orders, 1937. Typescript copy of an Admiralty publication providing service records of Town Class destroyers during the Second World War, 1949. Commission as sub-lieutenant in 1918, memorial scroll, portrait photographs and other papers.

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ID:	MSS/86/011
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	1912-1941
People:	Sim, Edward William Boyd
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	2 boxes; 1 oversized box
Parts:	Manuscript Uncatalogued: Letter describing a voyage from Plymouth to Port Phillip, 1875 (Manuscript) (MSS/86/008) Uncatalogued: Report on the loss of apprentice James Ellis from the barque GLENAFTON, 1899 (Manuscript) (MSS/86/009) Uncatalogued: Notebook on the design of armoured ships, 1883 (Manuscript) (MSS/86/010) Uncatalogued: Sim, Edward William Boyd, Captain, 1899-1941 (Manuscript) (MSS/86/011) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/86/016) Uncatalogued: Log and journal of a voyage from Canton to Bristol, 1834-35 (Manuscript) (MSS/86/018) Uncatalogued: Report of a voyage from Cardiff to Singapore, 1938-39 (Manuscript) (MSS/86/023) Uncatalogued: Report on the history of the British Naval mission to Greece, 1953 (Manuscript) (MSS/86/024) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/86/026) Uncatalogued: Papers of Captain James Anthony Gardner, 1782-1806 (Manuscript) (MSS/86/027) Uncatalogued: Certificates relating to merchant seaman Peter Chatterley, 1944-47 (Manuscript) (MSS/86/029) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/86/032) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/86/035) Uncatalogued: typescript history of the Rennie Line, 1850-1911 (Manuscript) (MSS/86/036) Uncatalogued: Papers of HS Leech, wireless telegraphist, 1923-4 (Manuscript) (MSS/86/037) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/86/039) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/86/040) Uncatalogued: Yachting journals of Aubrey Stewart, for the AUGUSTA and DINAH, plus assorted papers. (Manuscript) (MSS/86/042) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/86/043) Uncatalogued: Hewitt, John Gorham, Rear-Admiral, 1858-1913 (Manuscript) (MSS/86/044) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/86/045) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/86/046) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/86/047) Uncatalogued (manuscript) (MSS/86/048) Uncatalogued: Papers of Rear- Admiral R A Allenby (Manuscript) (MSS/86/050/1) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/86/050/2) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/86/051) Uncatalogued: Merchant Navy papers of Walter Herman Albert Straaten and Julian Justin Merrick Stratton (Manuscript) (MSS/86/052) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/86/053) Uncatalogued: 3 letterbooks kept by Rear Admiral Edward Boxer (1784-1855), 1854-1855, Superintedent at Balaclava. (Manuscript) (MSS/86/057) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/86/061) Transcript of journal kept by James G. Hogg Swain onboard La Hogue on passage from London to Sydney 27 July to 23 October 1859 (Manuscript) (MSS/86/062) Small collection of papers of Captain Thomas George Drake (1806-ca 1864) and of Admiral Sir William de Salis (fl 1873 – 1899) (Manuscript) (MSS/86/063) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/86/064) Uncatalogued: Four Journals kept by Robert Deas (Fl. 1820-1867) and a cargo book (1834-1835) (Manuscript) (MSS/86/065) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/86/066) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/86/069) Uncatalogued: Letters to and from Benjamin Tucker, prize agent to the Mediterranean Fleet, private secretary to Earl St. Vincent. (Manuscript) (MSS/86/070) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/86/073) Uncatalogued: Letter written by Fred (Blomeley?), HMS CAMPERDOWN, in Suda Bay, Crete, during the Greco-Turkish War. (Manuscript) (MSS/86/074) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/86/075/1) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/86/075/2) Uncatalogued: Villar, George, Engineer-Captain, 1887-1970 (Manuscript) (MSS/86/076) Uncatalogued: P&O pamphlets "P&O House", information handbooks and fares leaflets. (Manuscript) (MSS/86/077) Volume recording transportation of contract labour [indentured labour] between India and West Indies by James Nourse and Co. (Manuscript) (MSS/86/079) Uncatalogued: Haggard, John, Lieutenant, 1850-1908 (Manuscript) (MSS/86/081) Uncatalogued: Death certificate for A. A. Howell, steward on the TITANIC, 15 April 1912. (Manuscript) (MSS/86/086) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/86/089) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/86/091) Uncatalogued: Typed monograph 'Privateering from Guadaloupe 1794-1802: an examination of the forces involved and the effects produced' by H. J. E. Jenkins. (Manuscript) (MSS/86/092) Uncatalogued: Davies, Edwin Lanceley, Captain, 1891-1986 (Manuscript) (MSS/86/093) Uncatalogued: Backwell, Henry, Reverend, Naval Chaplain, 1855-1920; and Hugill, Rene Charles, Engineer Rear-Admiral, 1883-1962. (Manuscript) (MSS/86/095) Uncatalogued: AURORA, Whaling Ship (Manuscript) (MSS/86/097) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/86/098) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/86/100) Uncatalogued: Voyage accounts for the ship THOMAS BELL, barque of Liverpool. (Manuscript) (MSS/86/101) Uncatalogued: Letter written by Richard Hunter (b.1818) to his father-in-law, Robert Coster, describing the bombardment of Sebastopol, 17 October 1854. (Manuscript) (MSS/86/102)

Uncatalogued: Sim, Edward William Boyd, Captain, 1899-1941

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