Scheme for the Improvement of the System of Night Signalling.

ID:	MER/107
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	HMS Mercury
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	1 volume
Parts:	H.M.S. Mercury (Manuscript) Signals extracted from the General and Additional Sailing and Fighting Instructions by Day and by Night. 1782 (Manuscript) (MER/1) Signal book for the Ships of War. 1783. Issued to H.M.S. CORMORAN by Command of the Admiral Rear Admiral John Millar. (Manuscript) (MER/2) Untitled Signal Book. 1790-99. A comprehensive book of numeral signals. (Manuscript) (MER/3) Untitled Vocabulary Signal Book, 1800. A vocabulary of 2998 numeral signals; Lettered signals and significations; Miscellaneous; Signals for use in convoy; Fog and night signals (Manuscript) (MER/4) Untitled Signal Book, 1811. Day signals from the Admiral; Day signals from private ships; Signals and instructions for government of the Fleet during the night; Fog signals and instructions; Rendezvous signals; List of headlands; Marine vocabulary. (Manuscript) (MER/5) Boats Signal Book, 1825, containing numeral groups with significations and other useful information for boats. Produced, apparently, only for use between H.M.Sloop BARRACOUTA and her boats. (Manuscript) (MER/6) Dictionary of Signals. 1857. (Manuscript) (MER/7) Fleet Signal Book. Addenda 1907/8. (Manuscript) (MER/8) Untitled Signal Book. Covering Compass Signals; Instructions for Day Signals; Index to Day Signals; Day Signals; Sailing Instruction by Night; Night Signals; Sailing Instruction in a Fog; Fog Signals; Table to ascertain Distances; Order of Sailing. (Manuscript) (MER/9) Untitled Signal Book covering Geographical section; Ship distinguishing pennants section; 100 numeral signals; Pennants signal section; Distress signals; 72 miscellaneous numeral signals. (Manuscript) (MER/10) Untitled Signal Book. Possibly 1781. A General Signal Book printed by Congdon No.52 Fore Street Dock. (Manuscript) (MER/11) Untitled Signal Book. A local Signal Book for use in Plymouth. Contains: Harbour Signals; Boat Signals; Coast Signals; Geographical Signals; List of Navy. (Manuscript) (MER/12) Signal Book with up to 2998 signals. (Manuscript) (MER/13) Signal Book with vocabulary of 464 signals, and Convoy signals. (Manuscript) (MER/14) Signal Book with vocabulary of 277 signals, Night, Fog, distant signals. (Manuscript) (MER/15) Loose leaf Signal Book, with numerous pendant and vane signals. (Manuscript) (MER/16) Signal Book. Includes vocabulary of up to 966 signals; Convoy signals. Loose paper - indicates may have belonged to Beaufort at some point. (Manuscript) (MER/17) Signal Book with Numeral flags, telegraph flags, pendants, compass signals, signal balls and distant signals. Also signal flags of foreign navies. Signed Augustus Phillimore (Manuscript) (MER/18) Numeral Signal book up to 129. (Manuscript) (MER/19) Day signals with vocabulary up until 294. Also with night and fog signal vocabulary. (Manuscript) (MER/20) Envelope marked Admiral Beaufort. Contains loose sheets boats signals vocabulary. (Manuscript) (MER/21) General Index to Day Signals from the Admiral. (Manuscript) (MER/22) General Signals (Manuscript) (MER/23) Miscellaneous collection of small signalling books, including 'French Coast Signals given to me by Captain Wolfe of the H.M.S. AIGLE April 1807' and 'Signals and Instructions for Ships under Convoy of H.M.Sloop BLOSSOM Francis Beaufort Esqr Commander. (Manuscript) (MER/24) Envelope containing various signal books, pamphlets, and letters. (Manuscript) (MER/25) Secret Signals for Electric Telegraph. 1855. (Manuscript) (MER/26) 'Diagram Battle Signals' by Commander J. H. Brown. 1859. Contains 5 basic signals for use as Battle Signals. (Manuscript) (MER/27) Envelope containing miscellaneous documents and reports on signal matter. (Manuscript) (MER/28) Two items on Forming and Disposing Signals one by Flag Lieutenant Mark Kerr, 1890 and one by Sub Lieutenant Everett 1891. (Manuscript) (MER/29-30) Manuscript and typescript copies of correspondence, 1891-92, between Admiral Sir Geoffrey Phipps Hornby and Lieutenant Everett, re. Equal and Unequal Speed Manoeuvres. (Manuscript) (MER/31) A proposal for changes in the numeral signs , 1893 and a series of letters to Lieutenant Everett on HMS AMPHION on the use of Wireless Telegraphy. (Manuscript) (MER/32-33) Correspondence between Captain Percy Scott and Lieutenant Allan Everett re. lamps. 1894-98. (Manuscript) (MER/34) Communication between Ships. 1897. A compilation of reports and handwritten letters by Captain Percy Scott, mainly on the subject of communication by flashing. (Manuscript) (MER/35) Two items on Electric Mechanical Flashing Lanterns, the first is a report 1898 and the other are letters. (Manuscript) (MER/36-37) Letter, Percy Scott to Prince Louis, H.M.S. SCYLLA, Malta, 1 February 1899. (Manuscript) (MER/38) A series of Lectures and papers, 1899-1908 covering signalling during battles. (Manuscript) (MER/39) Series of Letters to Captain Scott on HMS MAJESTIC, H. G. Sandeman to Buller on HMS CAESAR and Buller to Everett about direct flashing lamp. (Manuscript) (MER/40-42) Papers and letters containing proposals to revise Battle Tactic Signals. 1901. They were written and devised by Lieutenant Everett who was then Officer in Charge of the Signal School. (Manuscript) (MER/43) A series of letters about signalling carried out is secret on the Wireless Telegraphy. (Manuscript) (MER/44-46) Letters and reports re. Chatham Pattern Truck Semaphore. 1901-5. (Manuscript) (MER/47) Instructions on signalling by submarine cable and photographs on Lieutenant Eason on HMS VICTORY and Captain Thomas Well with a Day and Night telescope. (Manuscript) (MER/48-49) Folder containing letters and documents relative to the system of signalling by means of 'shapes' in Destroyers. (Manuscript) (MER/50) Letters and papers re. Professor Forbes' Invention for Destroyer Recognition Signals. 1903-06; included in folder is Lieutenant Buckle's System of Recognition Signals. (Manuscript) (MER/51) Letters, reports, and diagrams re. foreign methods of signalling. 1903-09. (Manuscript) (MER/52) Series of items from 1904 -1905 including service records reports and letters. (Manuscript) (MER/53-55) Series of items on signalling including instructions of use of Cruiser code ciphers numbers and correspondence about signalling. (Manuscript) (MER/56-60) Papers relating to: Signals in Japanese Navy, 1906-09; Emergency Signal Code, 1907; The Morser, 1907. (Manuscript) (MER/61-63) A number of items on signalling including Burbridge signalling system, Skinner's Day Signalling Apparatus and Captain Gavin's Simplex Code for Day and Night Signalling. (Manuscript) (MER/64-68) Letter discussing a method of distant signalling and J. H. Steward's Supplemental List of Military Instruments. (Manuscript) (MER/69-70) Correspondence and papers re. Disc Signalling, including 'Handbook on Signalling by Means of Discs, Invented by Lieut.-Colonel B. R. Dietz' (1908) and 'Memorandum for Signalers who are detailed to carry the Signalling Disc'. (Manuscript) (MER/71) A letter to the Superintendent of Signal Schools and a typescript titled 'The Channel Fleet Cruising Orders'. (Manuscript) (MER/72-73) A series of items on signalling from 1909 including Hollis' Miniature Flash Tutor, Macdonald's signalling methods and a series of lectures of signalling. (Manuscript) (MER/74-76) Three items consisting of Nautical whist, flashing lamp and Semaphores, 1910. (Manuscript) (MER/77-79) A series of items on Signalling with instructions with visual night signalling and submarine sound signaling. 1910 -1913. (Manuscript) (MER/80-85) Series on Signals and lights, invention for ships to locate each other in fog and Boyle's system on sound signalling. (Manuscript) (MER/86-88) Three items on Signals included intercommunication between signal station and ships, searchlight signalling and Robinson's secret signalling with ultra violet ray. (Manuscript) (MER/89-91) An edited publication of Organisation of wave lenghts. (Manuscript) (MER/92) An envelop contain a cryptographic table and a hand drawn plate of a form of Semaphore. (Manuscript) (MER/93-94) Envelope containing various printed books and typescript documents dealing with signalling and ship handling. (Manuscript) (MER/95) Two items, one a pencil diagram of lamp base with mathematical equations and the other a letter to Allan Everett on HMS DEFIANCE. (Manuscript) (MER/96-97) Series on signals including cypher telegraph, marking of Funnels of H. M. Ships, Private signals and Day signals. (Manuscript) (MER/98-101) Navy Flashing Signals (letters and photographs). 1891. Printed correspondence (1861-91) between Admiral Colomb and the Admiralty re. his invention of night flashing signals for the Fleet, particularly payment thereof (Manuscript) (MER/102) A series of letters on night flashing signals. (Manuscript) (MER/103-106) Scheme for the Improvement of the System of Night Signalling. (Manuscript) (MER/107) Annual Reports on Naval Pigeon Service 1897-1907; Part 3: 1903-07 only. (Manuscript) (MER/108) Foreign Pigeon Service Organisation. (Manuscript) (MER/109) A series of items on Automatic Gas Light, 1905. (Manuscript) (MER/110-117) Series on laterns with circuit diagram, cross-section of base of latern and Scott's Masthead Electric Flash Laterns with instructions. (Manuscript) (MER/118-122)

Scheme for the Improvement of the System of Night Signalling.

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