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A Pirate's journal kept by William Davidson, 1788-89.

A Pirate's journal kept by William Davidson, 1788-89, made by Captain W H Smyth from a manuscript in the possession of Mr Kempthorne, 1/Lieutenant of the CORNWALLIS, 1805, see full list in printed catalogue for further details

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Object Details

ID:	AND/48
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	1788-01-01 - 1789-12-31; 1788-1789
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Parts:	Roger Charles Anderson Collection (Manuscript) Naval Estimates - a complete account of the Navy during the reign of William and Mary, 1688-1705. (Manuscript) (AND/1) Account of Docks at Portsmouth, 1698. (Manuscript) (AND/2) Volume of transcripts from Pepysian Library, n.d. (Manuscript) (AND/3) Volume of transcripts from Pepysian Library, n.d. (Manuscript) (AND/4) Journal of Sir George Rooke, Feb 1703. (Manuscript) (AND/5) Letterbook of Captain Norris, 1733-42. (Manuscript) (AND/6) Journal de la fregate la COURAGEUSE .... et journal de VAISSEAU le DUBOIX, par le citoyen A.P. Dagdé ensigne vaisseau, 1798. (Manuscript) (AND/7) Letterbook of Commandere Curtis Barnett, 1744-46. (Manuscript) (AND/8) Letterbook of Commissioner at Chatham, 1670; warrants for the clerk of the cheque. (Manuscript) (AND/9) Letterbook, part of the Pettigrew collection of Nelson papers, 1793-1841. (Manuscript) (AND/10) Letterbook, part of the Pettigrew collection of Nelson papers, 1793-1841. (Manuscript) (AND/11) Letter from Bonaparte to Admiral Ganteaume giving orders for the brig RIVOLY dated 11 Dec 1798, also part of Nelson's letter to Sir Thomas Trigge, Dec 1803. (Manuscript) (AND/12) Contract for building two ships, made with Henry Adams and Hutchinson Mure, to be built within a year, 16 November 1763. (Manuscript) (AND/13) Transcripts from University of Padua, the Venitian Archives and the Archives of Malta. (Manuscript) (AND/14-17) Bills of Shares. (Manuscript) (AND/18) Transcript of manuscript notebook on shipbuilding c.1865 made from the original in French and English by Cecil King, 1929. (Manuscript) (AND/19) Transcript of list on Royal Navy, 22 May 1549, from the Lansdowne manuscripts. (Manuscript) (AND/20) Transcript and notes by L G C Laughton of Robert Berd's account for building the GRACE Dieu, 1416-20. (Manuscript) (AND/21) Chronological notes, probably made by A C Bell, on naval operations during the 3rd Dutch War, 1670-74. (Manuscript) (AND/22) Report and Newspaper Cuttings regarding an old ship dug up at Woolwich, 1913. (Manuscript) (AND/23) Typescript copy of a Spanish manuscript belonging to Dr Anderson entitled Nueva Fabrica de Baxeles, by F A Garrote, 1691. (Manuscript) (AND/24) The Fairfax Manuscript: a collection of historical notes and transcripts and a few broadsides, relating to Saxon times onwards. (Manuscript) (AND/25) Spanish chart of Cartagena Dockyard, n.d. (Manuscript) (AND/26) Volume entitled 'An account of the Disbursment of all Moneyes received by the treasurer of his Majesty's Navie...' (Manuscript) (AND/27) Order for regulating the affairs of the Navy, 1660, copied by Samuel Pepys, with regualtions laid down by the Duke of York for the conduct of the various officials of the Admiralty, 1661. (Manuscript) (AND/28) Volume of orders, patents, warrants and instructions, 1661-1702, including the Duke of York's Instructions for the Navy Office, 1661. (Manuscript) (AND/29) Instructions for the Lord High Admiral of England and for the Commissioners and other Subordinate Officers of his Majeties Navy. (Manuscript) (AND/30) Book of William Keltridge, 1675, containing dimensions of HM ships, materials required, stores, pay, etc. (Manuscript) (AND/31) Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Commons, 21 Oct 1678 to 26 May 1679. (Manuscript) (AND/32) Volume entitled 'A distinct proportion for Eight & Twelve Months Sea-Stores, for every of his Majesty's Ships, Yachts, Ketches, Sloops and other Vessels now in Being', 1686. (Manuscript) (AND/33) Volume entitled 'The method of Building, Rigging, Apparelling and Furnishing his Majesties Ships of War'. (Manuscript) (AND/34) A collection of items on shipbuilding, c.1793. (Manuscript) (AND/35) Volume of estimates of the charges of building and equipping for sea with an account of the materials needed for the ships of the Royal Navy, n.d. (Manuscript) (AND/36) A True and perfect Account of his Majesties Navy together with what they cost Building Rigging Victualling and Wages, 1672. (Manuscript) (AND/37) 'An Establishment of the Numbers of Men and of the numbers and natures of ye Guns fitt to be made and confirmed upon every of his Majesty's Ships..' (Manuscript) (AND/38) A list of all their Majesties' Shipps Yachts and Vessells of each Rate and Sort belonging to the Royall Navy the 5th Day of November 1688, with gains, alterations and losses to 15 Feb 1697. (Manuscript) (AND/39) A List of all ye Ships and Vessels of his Majesty's Royall Navy: When, Where, and by Whome Built, and Rebuilt, with their Dimensions and Number of Men and Gunns.. (Manuscript) (AND/40) A list of His Majesty's Royal Navy, with their dimensions, number of tuns, men and guns, when and where, built or rebuilt, and by whom. (Manuscript) (AND/41) Ship List of H.M. Navy, from 17th century to 1795. (Manuscript) (AND/42) A list of His Majesty's Navy, 1830, corrected to 1846, the property of the 2nd Viscount Melville. (Manuscript) (AND/43) A Journal or Discourse of a Voyage made by mee Thomas Coale, Captaine of the good shippe fellowshippe of Bristol, being employed by his Majestie upon the coast of Ireland, 1641-42. (Manuscript) (AND/44) Volume of documents relating to Prince Rupert's Fleet, 1648-52: extracted out of a Booke written by a servant to his Highnesse Prince Rupert, 1648-50. (Manuscript) (AND/45) The dayly motion and publicke transactions of his Majesties Fleet from their setting out of the Buoy in the Nore the 19th of July 1666 till their returne thither the 3rd of Octob.. (Manuscript) (AND/46) A Relation of a Voyage made in the years 1695-97, to the Coasts of Affrica, the Streights of Magellan, Brasil, Guyana, and the Antilles or Caribby islands. (Manuscript) (AND/47) A Pirate's journal kept by William Davidson, 1788-89. (Manuscript) (AND/48) Italian petitions addressed to the Doge and Senate of Venice for employment and for rewards for several services, with decisions reached, 1644-1716. (Manuscript) (AND/49) Italian manuscript: 'Descrizzione di fabricha di Nave di primo largo, di lungezza di piedi no. II. Da Calchagnol a Chalchagnol come segue', n.d. (Manuscript) (AND/50) Spanish manuscript and plans from 'Nueva Fabrica de Baxeles' by F.A. Garrote, 1691. (Manuscript) (AND/51-52) Spanish manuscript: 'Arboladuras de Navios' by Saldonio Sastre of Barcelona, 1755. (Manuscript) (AND/53) Spanish manuscript: 'Ciencia de la marina obra escrita por al ferez de Navio' by Joseph Calbo de Ynazabal, n.d. (Manuscript) (AND/54) French manuscript: 'Memoire Du Majestueux', a book of the French warship MAJESTUEUSE. (Manuscript) (AND/55) Dutch manuscript: 'Algemeene lekendmaking', n.d. (Manuscript) (AND/56) Swedish manuscript, probably a report, now in the archives of the College of Admiralty, Stockholm, by Kapten (later Admiral) Abraham Falkengréen, n.d. (Manuscript) (AND/57) Notes on H.M. naval ships, arranged alphabetically, various dates. (Manuscript) (AND/58/2-11) Notes on establishments of 1677-1706; list of officers in state ships, 1654; list of the yearly salaries of the several officers belonging to the Admiralty and the Navy, 1660. (Manuscript) (AND/59) List of ships of the Royal Navy from a manuscript compiled in 1719. (Manuscript) (AND/60) Establishment of 1745. (Manuscript) (AND/61) (Swedish rigging establishment of c.1756) (Manuscript) (AND/62) Translation of 'La Marina da Guerra di Cosimo I e dei suoi primi successori', by C Manfroni, from 'Revista Marittima', 1895. (Manuscript) (AND/63) Extracts from Russian works concerning actions by the Russian galley fleet,the Russian fleet in the Archipelago and the Black Sea Fleet, of war against France and Turkey, 1736-1889. (Manuscript) (AND/64) Reproduction: 'De Navi e Galeri', by Zorzi Timbotta, 1444. (Manuscript) (AND/65) Reproductions: documents relating to naval affairs, 1656-58. (Manuscript) (AND/66) Reproduction: 'L'Architectura Navale', by Steffano de Zuanne de Michel, 1686. (Manuscript) (AND/67) Volumes of documents relating to naval affairs, 14th century to 19th century. (Manuscript) (AND/68) 'Notes on MSS dealing with Venetian Naval History'. (Manuscript) (AND/69) 'The Russian Fleet in the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean', n.d. (Manuscript) (AND/70) Pay book of William Thomas Burnett, Royal Naval Air Service, 1916-17. (Manuscript) (AND/71) Volume of notes by Anderson on Russian Naval History including a compressed translation of the 'Short History of the Russian Navy', Vol.1, by Veselago, 1875. (Manuscript) (AND/72) Dr Roger Charles Anderson, notes on ship models. (Manuscript) (AND/73) Xerox copy of Memoirs. (Manuscript) (AND/74) Journal of the Clare Sailing Boat Club. (Manuscript) (AND/75)