Research material on the composite clipper TORRENS (1875), including original notes and letters. Also a copy of ‘The Blue Peter’ magazine from 1923 containing a personal tribute by Joseph Conrad.

ID:	LUB/2
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Lubbock, Alfred Basil
Date made:	1911-1929
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	1 folder
Parts:	Lubbock (Manuscript) Logbooks for HMS GALATEA, SUPERB, HALLOWE'EN, THE TWEED, CORUNNA, PATRIARCH, THERMOPYLAE and CUTTY SARK. (Manuscript) (LUB/1) Research material on the composite clipper TORRENS (1875), including original notes and letters. Also a copy of ‘The Blue Peter’ magazine from 1923 containing a personal tribute by Joseph Conrad. (Manuscript) (LUB/2) Papers on Pacific Traders, n.d. (Manuscript) (LUB/3) Letters from Captain J.S. Macfarlane to the editior of the Nautical Magazine; from Corry's Belfast Star Line; from H. Hogarth & Sons. n.d. (Manuscript) (LUB/4) Letters about various ships, n.d. (Manuscript) (LUB/5) Notes and correspondence on the Hawaian sugar fleet, n.d. (Manuscript) (LUB/6) Corrections to 'Last of the Windjammers', vol 1, n.d. (Manuscript) (LUB/7) Photographs of tea clippers, n.d. (Manuscript) (LUB/8) Notes and correspondence on the TITANIA, n.d. (Manuscript) (LUB/9) Correspondence on 'Down Easters', n.d. (Manuscript) (LUB/10) Correspondence on 'Nitrate Clippers', n.d. (Manuscript) (LUB/11) Letters, notes and cuttings on the CUTTY SARK, (Manuscript) (LUB/12-13) Letters and reviews on 'Arctic Whalers', n.d. (Manuscript) (LUB/14) Collection of correspondence and cuttings about the sea and ships (undated). (Manuscript) (LUB/15) Copy of abstract log of the CUTTY SARK, Feb 1882-Mar 1895 (Manuscript) (LUB/16) Copy of the logbook of the CUTTY SARK, May 1882-Feb 1883 (Manuscript) (LUB/17) Series of papers on China clippers, correspondence and an autograph album. (Manuscript) (LUB/18) Wartime pamphlets 1939-41 (Manuscript) (LUB/19) A series of notebooks covering a number of topics included slave trade, turtles, alligator, crocodile, Beazley's ships and British Shipowners. (Manuscript) (LUB/20) Diaries and jottings with newspaper cuttings, 1936-41 (Manuscript) (LUB/21) Notes relative to Royal Navy, n.d. (Manuscript) (LUB/22) Two series of notes on Royal Navy and Slavers (undated.) (Manuscript) (LUB/23) Manuscripts of 'Bully Hayes', n.d. (Manuscript) (LUB/24) Mixed manuscripts regarding Hunting in the Shires and South Africa. Also includes 'Klondyke Yarns' and material related to the Klondike Goldrush, and 'Overseas Trade' (typescript). (Manuscript) (LUB/25) Twelve notebooks on British sailors (1); Charnock ship list (1); Admiral Barrington's letter and order books (5); Battle of Trafalgar (3). (Manuscript) (LUB/26) Nine notebooks and envolopes of loose papers concerning Prince Rupert, n.d. (Manuscript) (LUB/27) A series of albums containing photographs, newspaper clippings, letters and notes. (Manuscript) (LUB/28) Letters and reviews, n.d. (Manuscript) (LUB/29) Logbook kept by E J Hopkins on a number of ships 1866 - 1884 including a timebook of HMS SAPPHIRE 1883. (Manuscript) (LUB/30) Two notebooks used by Lubbock when yachting, n.d. (Manuscript) (LUB/31) Extracts from Liverpool Mercury relating to ship news, 1852-55 (Manuscript) (LUB/32) Transcripts of logbook, THOMAS COUTTS, LOCH TORRIDON, CITY OF PERTH and notes on China clippers 1912 -1914. (Manuscript) (LUB/33) Adm Fullerton's journals and notebooks, 1871-72 (Manuscript) (LUB/34) Notebooks on Last Days of Sail, log of SAMUEL PLIMSOLL and Alfred Lubbock's underwriting book 1867. (Manuscript) (LUB/35) A series of notebooks on The Denizens of the Deep. (Manuscript) (LUB/36) A series of notebooks on the Last of the Wooden Walls. (Manuscript) (LUB/37) A series of notebooks covering Whaling in 18th and 19th centuries including abstracts of logbooks and transcripts. (Manuscript) (LUB/38) A series of notebooks with abstracts of logbooks and notes from various voyages 1782 - 1930 (Manuscript) (LUB/39) Miscellaneous collection of papers on sea flags, n.d. (Manuscript) (LUB/40) Three letters to Basil Lubbock and his wife from 'Inez'; List of Falls Line and Port Line sailing vessels afloat, June 1890; Copies of abstract logbooks of the ships LOCH BROOM, 1911, HARBINGER, 1884 (Manuscript) (LUB/41) Transcript of the logbooks of the Royal Mail Ship LIGHTNING, on her second, third, fourth and fifth voyages to Australia and back, 1855-1857 (Manuscript) (LUB/42) A series of photographs of paintings 1797 - 1839. (Manuscript) (LUB/43) Cuttings from the 'Marine Journal' 13 September 1924 and 'Yachting' May 1924, relating to the New Bedford whaler WANDERER and the wrecking of the New England Whale Fleet in 1871 (Manuscript) (LUB/44) Author's copy of 'Round the Horn Before the Mast' by A. Basil Lubbock, first published by John Murray, London, 1902. (Manuscript) (LUB/45) 'The China Clippers' by Basil Lubbock, published by James Brown & Son, Glasgow, 1914. An author's copy with annotations. (Manuscript) (LUB/46) 'The Blackwall Frigates' by Basil Lubbock, published by James Brown & Son, Glasgow, 1922. An author's copy with inserted annotations, cuttings and illustrations. (Manuscript) (LUB/47) 'The Western Ocean Packets' by Basil Lubbock, published by James Brown & Son, Glasgow, 1925. An author's copy with inserted annotations, cuttings and illustrations. (Manuscript) (LUB/48) 'The Last of the Windjammers' by Basil Lubbock, first published by Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd, Glasgow, 1927. With author notes and clippings. (Manuscript) (LUB/49) 'The Down Easters: American Deepwater Sailing Ships 1869-1929' by Basil Lubbock, first published by Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd, Glasgow, 1929. (Manuscript) (LUB/50) 'The Nitrate Clippers' by Basil Lubbock, published by Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd, Glasgow, 1932. An author's copy with inserted annotations, cuttings and photographs. (Manuscript) (LUB/51) Author's copy of 'Coolie Ships and Oil Sailers' by Basil Lubbock, published by Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd, Glasgow, 1935. (Manuscript) (LUB/52) 'The Arctic Whalers' by Basil Lubbock, published by Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd, Glasgow, 1937. An author's copy with inserted annotations, cuttings and photographs. (Manuscript) (LUB/53) Two volumes on 'H.M. Ships' compiled by Basil Lubbock, containing notes, newscuttings and photographs, with entries arranged by place of construction. A third volume provides an alphabetical index to the vessel names. (Manuscript) (LUB/54) 'List of Library Books Basil Lubbock' arranged alphabetically by author and title. (Manuscript) (LUB/55) Folder of research material relating to Basil Lubbock, including letters to a friend carrying out research at the India Office in 1932 and a printed booklet entitled 'Navy Estimates, 1937. (Manuscript) (LUB/56)

Research material on the composite clipper TORRENS (1875), including original notes and letters. Also a copy of ‘The Blue Peter’ magazine from 1923 containing a personal tribute by Joseph Conrad.

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