Letters and images relating to the Pacific Station, H.B. Hill.

Letters to Mrs Shaw and her daughter Mary (Maurie?): four from Herbert Bligh Hill from HMS TRIUMPH, 1882, and HMS SWIFTSURE, 1883, a letter giving news of Hill; and a letter from Norman C Palmer, midshipman, HMS SWIFTSURE, 1883. Also contains two photographs of pictures of an action off Arica, 17 March 1880, part of the Peru-Chilean War, and an amusing drawing of 'the scientific jockey', a man with a small fishing net in a military uniform.

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ID:	AGC/H/34
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	1880-1883
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	1 folder: 8 items
Parts:	Letters - H (Manuscript) Richard Hughes: intelligence report dated ESSEX 29 March 1746. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/1) Commander Archibald Hamilton, H.E.I.C: letter to Charles Forbes describing an action between Commandere Dance and Rear-Admiral Linois. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/2) Sir Samuel Hood: signatures on orders, 7 March and 5 April 1794. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/3) Richard Howe, Viscount: orders and a secret memorandum, 1794-95. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/4) Lord Martin Hawke, surviving son of Admiral Lord Edward Hawke: letters, 1767, 1775 and 1794. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/5) Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood: order for a survey to be made on clothes and shoes said to be rotten on board the SALCETTE. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/6) Captain Sir William Hoste: letter to unknown, dated 19 March 1828, also engravings of Hoste. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/7) Alexander Hume: letter to Sir Sydney Smith, 19 January 1811. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/8) Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, Bt: letter to Horatio Nelson, dated Portsmouth Harbour, 20 January 1803. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/9) Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, Bt: letter to unknown dated Portsmouth, 16 May 1815; Rear-Admiral Richard Kempenfelt: letter to unknown dated VICTORY, 14 Dec 1781. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/10) Admiral Samuel Hood, Viscount: declaration recommending government protection for a French naval officer, 12 Dec 1793. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/11) Edwin Harvey, seaman: letter to his parents, HMS REVENGE, Malta, 25 August 1835. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/12) Mary Honychurch: letter from her sister, Flushing, Long Island, New York, 5 Oct 1820. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/13) Francis Higginson: letter to John Barrow regarding his request for promotion and an improved ships logbook, 4 Dec 1828. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/14) Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, Adm: letter to Captain D Lawrence, 13 Dec 1811. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/15) Sir William Hamilton: order to Messrs Hart and Wilkins to pay bearer 100 ducats from Hamilton's account for his personal use, 6 November 1767. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/16) Lieutenant William Hutchinson: official copies of correspondence regarding his rescue of the crews of shipwrecked vessels. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/17) Lieutenant William Hennah: correspondance. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/18) Lord Richard William Penn Curzon Howe: letter to Joseph Roberts, undated ca.1840. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/19) George ? Harman, Chief Engineer, SS GREAT BRITAIN: letter by him regarding the ship's boilers, 17 January 1848. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/20) Captain Sir William Hoste: Two letters to his father and mother. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/21) Charles Hayes: letter to Robert Mann, regarding the Royal African Company, 31 Oct 1749. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/22) W.N.W. Hewett: letter to Sir Robert Chambers, 20 November 1784, regarding the wreck of the GROSVENOR. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/23) Mid Hugh Fitzroy Hopkinson, HMS CALLIOPE: letters to his mother, 19 and 25 March 1889, regarding the hurricaine at Samoa, 16 March 1889. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/24) J.S. Hood: letter to William Jerdan, Esq., from Montevideo, 29 April 1825. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/25) Midshipman Peter Heywood's letters relating to the mutiny on HMS BOUNTY and his fate after trial (Manuscript) (AGC/H/26) Letters written by John Harrison portrait artist and grandson of the horologist to his sister (Manuscript) (AGC/H/27) Letter from Henry Harrop, from the SWIFTSURE, Alexandria, describing the Battle of the Nile and his involvement in it. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/28) Letter written by Robert Hope, HMS TEMERAIRE, to his brother John Hope. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/29) Letters written by Benjamin William Hotine, 1877-1879 (Manuscript) (AGC/H/30) Letter written by lower deck seaman William Hand, HMS CENTAUR, 1813. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/31) Letter from lower deck seaman Jospeh Harrison, HMS ROYAL SOVEREIGN, 1796. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/32) Letter of comfort from Lady Ellen Hood to Mrs Carrington about the loss of those who died on HMS INVINCIBLE at the Battle of Jutland with poem. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/33) Letters and images relating to the Pacific Station, H.B. Hill. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/34) Letter from Sir John Herschel to Thomas Henderson, Astronomer Royal, 1832. (Manuscript) (AGC/H/35)

Letters and images relating to the Pacific Station, H.B. Hill.

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