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Lieutenant William Paynter: letter to his brother describing an action with French ships, 23 June 1778.
Lieutenant William Paynter: letter to his brother describing an action with French ships, 23 June 1778.
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Object details
ID:
AGC/P/10
Type:
Manuscript
Display location:
Not on display
Date made:
1778-01-01 - ?; 1778-06-23
Credit:
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Parts:
Letters - P (Manuscript)
Sir George Pocock: letter to George Holland, wine merchant, dated 4 July 1829. (Manuscript) (AGC/P/1)
Admiral Sir Peter Parker: note enclosing list of prizes taken by the WOOLWICH when he was in command of her, dated 11 May 1759. (Manuscript) (AGC/P/2)
Admiral Sir Peter Parker: order to Lieutenant Walker, signed Parker, 19 September 1797. (Manuscript) (AGC/P/3)
Admiral Thomas Pasley: holograph to Henry Dundas, 11 September 1798. (Manuscript) (AGC/P/4)
Samuel Pepys: orders, estimate and appointment, 1667-74. (Manuscript) (AGC/P/5)
Earl Charles Morduant Peterborough: letter to Sir Richard Haddock, dated 16 Feb [year illegible]. (Manuscript) (AGC/P/6)
Rear-Admiral Charles Dudley Pater: letter, confidential report and a rudder plan regarding the wreck of the ST GEORGE off the Danish coast 1812. (Manuscript) (AGC/P/7)
Admiral Sir Edward Pellew: holographs to Alex Whitson, surgeon, 7 January 1796 and n.d.. (Manuscript) (AGC/P/8)
R Postlewaite, purser: letter to his brother giving news of Anglo-American naval affairs, dated the RECRUIT, 11 June 1813. (Manuscript) (AGC/P/9)
Lieutenant William Paynter: letter to his brother describing an action with French ships, 23 June 1778. (Manuscript) (AGC/P/10)
Captain W.E. Parry, Hydrographer, Admiralty: letter to Mr Lemann, on biscuit, presumably for his expedition towards the North Pole, 12 January 1827. (Manuscript) (AGC/P/11)
Samuel Pepys: letter, 1700. (Manuscript) (AGC/P/12)
Admiral Sir Edward Pellew (Manuscript) (AGC/P/13)
H Parker: letter to John D Rolt, 20 April 1808, describing an action in which four were killed and twenty eight wounded. (Manuscript) (AGC/P/14)
Henry William Paget, Marquis of Anglesey: letters to Gilbert Elliot, Earl of Minto. (Manuscript) (AGC/P/15)
William Paget, Chaplain: letters written to Thomas Bennett, 28 January 1758-June 1762, from HMS DEPTFORD in the Channel and HMS MARLBOROUGH off Martinique. (Manuscript) (AGC/P/16)
John Martindale Powell, a series of 10 letters to his mother, 1805-10, from HMS REVENGE. (Manuscript) (AGC/P/17)
3 letters from Edward Parry., mainly personal, regarding invitations and "the Box". (Manuscript) (AGC/P/18)
Letter from Sir Phineas Pett to the Earl of Lauderdale, regarding timber supplies to the Navy (Manuscript) (AGC/P/19)
Part of a letter written by Robert Paterson, a plantation owner on Jamaica, to James Murray, an advocate in Aberdeen. (Manuscript) (AGC/P/20)
Letters of lower deck seaman John Parr, HMS HERO, 1803-1808. (Manuscript) (AGC/P/21)
Letters written by Edward Pellew, Viscount Exmouth to Lord Melville. (Manuscript) (AGC/P/22)
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