Memo on the comparison of the expense of materials, workmanship and time in repairs to HM ships Spartiate and Canopus, according to the normal method, and that proposed by Mr Robert Seppings of Plymouth Yard, showing savings in favour of Canopus

5 September 1801, Memo on the comparison of the expense of materials, workmanship and time in repairs to HM ships Spartiate and Canopus, according to the normal method, and that proposed by Mr Robert Seppings of Plymouth Yard, showing savings in favour of Canopus

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ID:	MRK/105/13/11
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	1801
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Parts:	Admiral John Markham Admiralty Business correspondence and papers on the Dockyards including Shipwrights and apprentices, ship building and repair (Manuscript) Memo unsigned, number of shipwrights in the different dockyards, with a comparison for 1792-3, showing a total of 3057 (3214) (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/1) Memo on late regulation on abolishing chips, and apprentices, on the efficient use of timber in the dockyards, and example of practise in the merchant yards (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/2) Draft of a memo on the reasons why merchant ships if armed by government cannot be of service to prevent invasion by the enemy’s flotilla (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/3) Extract of notes on a hearing of Mr Lugger, clerk of the survey, Mr Marshall and dockyard clerks, and Mr Tait storekeeper, on their dismissal for deficiencies and false accounting, after a hearing by the committee of the Navy Board (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/4) Eliot, Troubridge and Markham, Admiralty Board, to the Navy Board, (Copy, 6 sides) on order to the Navy Board for laying up ships in ordinary (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/5) Draft notes on contracts made by Mr Harrison for timber, with queries and answers (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/6) Notes on orders in council of 1792 and Act of parliament 1785 on appointment of commissioners and fees received (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/7) Memo on superannuation, to Boatswains gunners carpenters pursers, and for Masters and Surgeons for years of active service (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/8) Draft notes on an accusation against caulkers of false claims and accounting (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/9) Notes on a navy board report of the disorders in the dockyards (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/10) Memo on the comparison of the expense of materials, workmanship and time in repairs to HM ships Spartiate and Canopus, according to the normal method, and that proposed by Mr Robert Seppings of Plymouth Yard, showing savings in favour of Canopus (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/11) William Streck, memo on an estimation of paint and putty that can be prepared at Plymouth (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/12) An account of the number of Artificers in the different dockyards in the years 1793 and 1803 (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/13) Amount of superannuation to the different artificers of the dockyards with a comparative statement of the wages to be payed them. (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/14) Mr Tippet, Deptford Yard, to Markham, on nos of surveyors of timber in the yard (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/15) Observations on the pay of dockyard workers at Portsmouth, no date. (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/16) John Marshall, repairs to boats by job at the Boathouse, Plymouth,1-30th August 1800 with costs (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/17) Notes on former misconduct of storekeepers1798-1799, including stores from prizes (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/18) List of the Artificers discharged and superannuated from Plymout Yard at the visitation (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/19) Hammond, Duncan, Henslow, Navy Office to William Marsden, (Copy by Markham) on the preparation of accounts ships ordered etc (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/20) List of Ships of the Line, frigates and Sloops built between 1 January 1793 and 15 March 1804 (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/21) Abstract of HM ships and vessels in commission at home and abroad (511) plus numbers building (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/22) An account of HM Ships in commission on 1st January from 1793 to 1804. (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/23) Apprentices comparative statement of emoluments (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/24) Numbers of shipwrights in all the Yards 1 January 1793, October 1801, 1 March 1803, and 1st March 1804; Ships building in the Kings yards 1790-1801, and in the merchants yards 1800-1804 (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/25) Draft notes by Markham on timber, artificers, shipwrights etc. and ships built by contract (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/26) List of ships launched in the Kings and merchant yards 1793-1803, and those building 1804, with amounts advanced to contractors on signing their contracts. (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/27) Navy Office, TB Thompson, memo on use of copper in 1776 on ships named in column (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/28) Papers relative to the building of ships in the East Indies contrasted with the price payed for the Romney (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/29) Bills of exchange drawn from the East Indies in 1801 (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/30) Note on price of building a 50 gun ship in England per ton and the Romney (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/31) Note on building a 815 ton ship at Bengal in 1794, with equipment at 18 pounds per ton (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/32) Allowance for the wear and tear of the Romney for 33 months at 3pounds per man, with notes on Navy board paper page 301 (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/33) Particulars of the cost of the Cornwallis, 54 guns extracted from the records of the East India House built in Bombay 1800 and 1801 (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/34) Commissioner Fanshawe, Plymouth Dock, to Markham, on the shipwright delegates in 1801, on a discharge of Mr Marshall, on using marines as watchmen in the yard (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/35) Commissioner Fanshawe, Plymouth Yard, to Markham, on complaint in 1800 of quartermen and caulkers on the SYLPH, against Captain Dashwood, and Lieut Pyne, his recollection of the matter (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/36) Hope, Henslow, Marsh, Navy Office to Commissioner Fanshawe, (Copy by Fanshawe), on a report from Admiral Pasley on the complaint, on blame for both parties (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/37) Bermudan’s price of building sloops in 1800 and 1804, jotting in rough entitled Indian sloop of war, with costs for hull, fittings, with a comparison (Manuscript) (MRK/105/13/38)

Memo on the comparison of the expense of materials, workmanship and time in repairs to HM ships Spartiate and Canopus, according to the normal method, and that proposed by Mr Robert Seppings of Plymouth Yard, showing savings in favour of Canopus

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