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Letter from Admiral John Schanck to Sir Evan Francis Edwards, regarding sliding keels, dated 22 April 1789.
Letter from Admiral John Schanck to Sir Evan Francis Edwards, regarding sliding keels, dated 22 April 1789.
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Object Details
ID:
SCS/19
Type:
Manuscript
Display location:
Not on display
Date made:
1789-04-22
Credit:
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:
1 item
Parts:
Shipbuilding (Manuscript)
Letter patent for improvement in side propellers for ocean and river vessels granted to Luke Thomas, 1865, (Related Material SCS/18). (Manuscript) (SCS/1)
Articles of agreement between Frances Barnard, widow of William Barnard shipbuilder, and William Hamilton, merchant, to build a ship for the East India Company in Bernard's yard at Deptford. (Manuscript) (SCS/2)
Souvenir card of the launching of HMS PRINCE CONSORT at Pembroke Dock on 26 June 1862. (Manuscript) (SCS/3)
Description of the machine which steered HMS IPSWICH home from Bermuda to Plymouth, Mar-April 1746, diagram with explanatory notes, n.d. and unsigned. (Manuscript) (SCS/4)
Diagram of apparatus for hoisting foremast of HMS PHAETON, 1805. (Manuscript) (SCS/5)
John Favier: observations of the qualities of HMS DEPTFORD storeship, printed form. (Manuscript) (SCS/6)
Lieutenant E May's improved system of lowering and disengaging ships boats, 1866. (Manuscript) (SCS/7)
Edward Harper and Christopher Wilson: petition presented to the House of Commons by Harper and Wilson, 1809. (Manuscript) (SCS/8)
Diagram showing the stern of a ship with a topmast rudder hard down c.1805. (Manuscript) (SCS/9)
John List, civil engineer: drawing and specification of Napier-List coffee machine, 1890. (Manuscript) (SCS/10)
Messrs R Napier and Sons, Govan Yard, shipbuilders: particulars of vessels and of iron clads built in tabular form. (Manuscript) (SCS/11)
HMS GUNNERY: papers relating to Sir Percy Scott's design for HMS GUNNERY, 1911. (Manuscript) (SCS/12)
Life Boat Design: printed letter and draft by John White relating to life boat design, 1873. (Manuscript) (SCS/13)
HMSS VIPER, STAG and CANOPUS: rough notes on engine tests, 1898. (Manuscript) (SCS/14)
Atlantic Telegraph: patent specifications and press cuttings on shipbuilding and the Atlantic Telegraph in the 1860s, collected by Cedric Atkinson. (Manuscript) (SCS/15)
G R Weddell: native craft of the Indian Ocean, notes and plans by G.R. Weddell. (Manuscript) (SCS/16)
Specifications for a 9000 ton cruiser prepared at the Royal Naval College by W P Padbury, September 1941. (Manuscript) (SCS/17)
Final specifications for 'Improvements in Side Propellors for Ocean and River Vessels'.; Patent Office Certificates of Leaving and Provisional Protection regarding 'A lifting Gallery applicable to Ships and Forts'. (Manuscript) (SCS/18)
Letter from Admiral John Schanck to Sir Evan Francis Edwards, regarding sliding keels, dated 22 April 1789. (Manuscript) (SCS/19)
Contract to build the ship "Tottenham" between Thomas Haws (shipbuilder of "Stockton") and Wigram & Co. of London, dated March 1801. (Manuscript) (SCS/20)
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