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Drake's expedition 1585 - description of preparation.
Drake's expedition 1585 - description of preparation. Typescript of original mss. 8pps.
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Object Details
ID:
TRN/5
Type:
Manuscript
Display location:
Not on display
Date made:
1585-01-01 - ?; 1585
Credit:
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Parts:
Copies Of Volumes And Documents - Transcripts (Manuscript)
Sandwich manuscripts. Typed transcripts of letters received by Lord Sandwich as 1st Lord of the Admiralty, 1772-1783. (Manuscript) (TRN/1)
Smales of Whitby. Dimensions of Whitby built sailing ships from the Smales Diaries, 1807-49. Compiled by Major Smales, 1957. (Manuscript) (TRN/1A)
Coasting trade notes, 1677-1718. (Manuscript) (TRN/1B)
Vice Admiral Visount Nelson. Transcripts of letters from various collections at the British Museum. (Manuscript) (TRN/2)
Private minute and memoranda book kept by Captain Richard Creyke, Governor of the Royal Hospital at Plymouth. (Manuscript) (TRN/3)
Alfred Augustus Taylor, surgeon. Excerpts from letters written home from HMS AMPHION. (Manuscript) (TRN/4)
Drake's expedition 1585 - description of preparation. (Manuscript) (TRN/5)
Account of the Battle of the Nile by E. Possulgue. (Manuscript) (TRN/6)
List of Post Office Packet Commanders, Falmouth station. (Manuscript) (TRN/7)
Transcript of a copy of a letter written from HMS EURYALUS, about the Battle of Trafalgar. (Manuscript) (TRN/8)
"Advice to my son Fred" by Captain Todd. (Manuscript) (TRN/9)
Correspondence between Vice-Admiral George F. Hastings and other naval officers. (Manuscript) (TRN/10)
Typed list of Lieutenants' passing certificates. (Manuscript) (TRN/11)
Mathew Baker. Fragments of English Shipwrightry. (Manuscript) (TRN/12)
Official letters to Admiral Sir George Byng while commander of British fleet in Mediterranean during Sicilian Campaign. (Manuscript) (TRN/13)
Typescript notes on the ship XIPHIAS and on its Master, John Morris. (Manuscript) (TRN/14)
Letter from Thomas Birkby to his father describing a voyage made to Australia in 1834, and life there. (Manuscript) (TRN/15)
Captain W.R. Carter. Letter describing the sinking of his ship the REGULAR. (Manuscript) (TRN/16)
Letter describing the sinking of the barque GREAT BRITAIN in the St Lawrence River, 1842. (Manuscript) (TRN/17)
Narrative of a voyage in HMS NAUTILUS by Thomas Boulden Thompson, Captain. (Manuscript) (TRN/18)
Diary of William Clarke, emigrant on board the INVERCARGILL. (Manuscript) (TRN/19)
Journal kept by Edward Cornell of a voyage on board the Royal Mail clipper RED JACKET. (Manuscript) (TRN/20)
Account of the shipwreck of the ADAMANT on Sable Island in October 1810. (Manuscript) (TRN/21)
Diary kept by Henry Swann on board the SARANAK. (Manuscript) (TRN/22)
Disbursement book of the ashburner schooner, JAMES POSTLETHWAITE. (Manuscript) (TRN/23)
Disbursement book of the schooner MARY ASHBURNER. (Manuscript) (TRN/24)
Captain Edmund Letchmere. Calendar of his letters in the Worcester Record Office. (Manuscript) (TRN/25)
Captain G.E.S. Pearce-Sercold, extracts from his autobiography. Lieutenant Colonel Bunce, narrative of the capture of Batavia (Manuscript) (TRN/26)
"Scarborough Sea Dogs", the life story of Captain John Wyrill, by G. Forrest Frank. (Manuscript) (TRN/27)
Diary of a voyage from Plymouth to Melbourne, kept by Jonathan Binns Were in the WILLIAM METCALFE. (Manuscript) (TRN/28)
Letters from the Duke of Windsor and Prince Albert (King George VI) to Admiral Sir Cambell Tait. (Manuscript) (TRN/29)
Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson, transcripts of letters from the Nelson Museum, Monmouth. (Manuscript) (TRN/30)
Navy of Charles II. Unpublished manuscript extracts from original historical documents. (Manuscript) (TRN/31)
Edwin Chappel. The Tangier Papers of Samuel Pepys. (Manuscript) (TRN/32)
Indenture between Lieutenant William Lindsey of HMS JAMES GALLEY and Thomas Clarke, Collector of Customs at Great Yarmouth. (Manuscript) (TRN/33)
Letter to the editors of the "Museum Rusticum" putting forward a detailed scheme for the victualling of the Navy. (Manuscript) (TRN/34)
Ann Congdon Duder. Letter to her family and friends describing a voyage on the OSCAR. (Manuscript) (TRN/35)
Poem called "The Mary Anne McHugh (A Connemara turfboat)". (Manuscript) (TRN/36)
Extracts from the journals of East India Company ships SYDNEY, CRAGGS and BRITANNIA 1698-1734, commanded by Caleb Grantham. (Manuscript) (TRN/37)
John Stradley. Memoirs covering his life at sea during the American War of Independence on HMS GRAFTON. (Manuscript) (TRN/38)
List headed "Captaines that served in ye Fleet last Summer" with comments on the character of each. (Manuscript) (TRN/39)
John Trewolla. Extract from his diary describing his voyage to Canada and America on the barque VICTORIA. (Manuscript) (TRN/40)
George R. Donovan. Letters to his family written on the CORMORANT in the Crimea. (Manuscript) (TRN/41)
Specifications of two screw steam vessels to be employed as tugs on the St. Lawrence River. (Manuscript) (TRN/42)
Admiral William Waldegrave. Letters to Lord Hugh Seymour dealing with current naval affairs. (Manuscript) (TRN/43)
Journal of a voyage from Portsmouth to Calcutta kept by an officer on the East Indiaman DUNDAS. (Manuscript) (TRN/44)
Letters ets, relating to the seige of Taunton, 1644, from the Thomason Tracts. (Manuscript) (TRN/45)
Admiral Edward Barnard. Letters and other material relating to his naval career and those of his sons. (Manuscript) (TRN/46)
Viscount Horatio Nelson. Letter to Sir John Duckworth on the state of the war etc, from the MEDUSA off Boulogne; And letter to John Polson, SAN JOSEPH. (Manuscript) (TRN/47)
Viscount Horatio Nelson. Three letters to Lieutenant Joseph Bromwick, AMAZON. (Manuscript) (TRN/48)
Transcript of Cook's voyage in the RESOLUTION, by William Griffin, cooper. (Manuscript) (TRN/49)
Transcripts of documents relating to John Paul Jones: a letter from his niece to J. Fennimore Cooper, and a reprint of an article about Jones' burial. (Manuscript) (TRN/50)
Reminiscences of Major John George Richardson, R.M. (Manuscript) (TRN/51)
Transcript of an account by Captain Edward Taylor Weale of the rescue of the sloop LILY; also an autobiographical letter giving details of his services. (Manuscript) (TRN/52)
Typescript copy of the account of the life of Sir George Grey by his wife, with biographical notes relating to the family. (Manuscript) (TRN/53)
Transcripts of letters, Admiral William Waldegrave to Vice-Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour. (Manuscript) (TRN/54)
Typescript copy of diary of Alfred Charlesworth including a voyage to New Zealand on the COLUMBUS; also copy of the diary of the voyage sent to his parents. (Manuscript) (TRN/55)
Typescript trancript of three letters written by Jean Charles Houzeau to his family describing his sea passage from Liverpool to Orleans lasting 46 days. (Manuscript) (TRN/56)
Typescript summary of the journal of the Danish slave ship FREDENBOURG with extracts of the voyage. (Manuscript) (TRN/57)
Typescript of extracts from the private diaries of Midshipman Charles Parry kept on board HMS AMPHITRITE and PORTLAND in the Pacific. (Manuscript) (TRN/58)
Typescript transcripts of Captain Lewis Holland Thomas, mainly in ships from Liverpool to South America. (Manuscript) (TRN/59)
Typescript transcript of Captain Mackenzie's two volume diary kept as mate and then master of the DISCOVERY during the B.A.N.Z.A.R.E. (British, Austrlian and New Zealand Research Expeditition). (Manuscript) (TRN/60)
Typescripts of journals of T.F. Miller. (Manuscript) (TRN/61)
Transcripts of letters from the Navy Board to Woolwich Dockyard, 24 January 1693, re the supply of ropes, and 1 March 1693, enclosing a copy of a contract. (Manuscript) (TRN/62)
"The Hardway" by Hawespipe: reminiscences of Dougie Pierce, mainly relating to his services under sail. (Manuscript) (TRN/63)
Tyred transcripts of a diary kept by C.B. Pritchett, cadet on board the merchant training ship PORT JACKSON; and diary kept by Lieutenant George Burton, RNR, on board the PORT JACKSON. (Manuscript) (TRN/64)
Typed transcript of a letter from B.J. Sulivan, discussing Sir Charles Napier and the Baltic Operations in the Russian War. (Manuscript) (TRN/65)
Transcripts and translations of documents relating to astronomy and navigation, especially the sixteenth century, made for Derek Howse. (Manuscript) (TRN/66)
Notes made by Michael Robinson circa 1975, which appear to be transcripts of Admiralty papers 1583-1701. (Manuscript) (TRN/67)
Transcripts by Thomas Pruden and Col. Norman McLeod. (Manuscript) (TRN/68)
Typsecript of a diary kept by Alexander Colquohon: "An account and transaction of a voyage to Qubec and the fol .. on board a man of ware in the year of our Lord 1776". (Manuscript) (TRN/69)
Typecript of a letter from A.B. Smith, Officer onboard RMS EMPRESS OF AUSTRALIA, during the Yokohama earthquake, to Sub-Lieutenant P.W. Brock, R.N. (Manuscript) (TRN/70)
Transcript of a letter written by George J.S. Warrender and sent from HMS BARFLEUR, 1900. (Manuscript) (TRN/71)
Calendars of log books, correspondence and papers of Admiral Duncan. (Manuscript) (TRN/72)
Transcripts of original documents: letters written by Charles Shaw, Midshipman, RN and a journal kept by William Salter Millard, Midshipman on board HMS MONARCH. (Manuscript) (TRN/73)
Transcript of an eyewitness account of the Battle of Jutland, 1916. (Manuscript) (TRN/74)
Transcript of the diary kept by Andrew Crawford as a passenger on the PATRIARCH, 1885 (Manuscript) (TRN/75)
Typescript account by A.G.E. Jones of Lt. T.E.L. Moore's account the voyage of the PAGODA in the Antarctic. (Manuscript) (TRN/76)
Typescript copy of Naval Surgeon's report from William B. Dalby of hospital ship ANDROMEDA. (Manuscript) (TRN/77)
Typescript copy of 1805 letter to Trinity House from Abraham Turner, 2nd Master and Pilot. (Manuscript) (TRN/78)
Transcript of a Treatise concerning the Royal Navy in the 16th century. (Manuscript) (TRN/79)
Two transcripts of sound recordings of Shackleton describing Antarctic expedition of 1907-1909. (Manuscript) (TRN/80)
Transcript of a journal kept by Martin Bienvenu as an ordinary seaman on the JURA, 1859-1862. (Manuscript) (TRN/81)
Transcripts of letters written by Robert Horace Walpole as a midshipman on HMS MAGAERA, 1871. (Manuscript) (TRN/82)
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