Gunnery manuals and other printed material, published 1923-1943.

Gunnery manuals and other printed material used by Quarm during his career at sea:
‘Ammunition Pocket Book’ published by the Admiralty (Gunnery Branch), 1935, numbered B.R.154.
‘Notes on Gunnery for Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships’ published by the Admiralty (Gunnery Branch), 1940, numbered B.R.219/40.
‘Instructions for Guidance of D.E.M.S. Naval Ratings and Masters of Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships’ published by the Admiralty (Trade Division), 1940.
‘Hotchkiss Portable Machine Gun Handbook’.
Other items including sheets of data for correcting the observed altitude of the sun and stars, and finding true bearings of sunrise and sunset, also a Ministry of War notice regarding the employment of British seamen on non-British ships, 1943.

Record Details

Item reference: QRM/5; X2003.014.1 DUP X2003.014.1 D2001.055 D2001.162.1
Catalogue Section: Personal collections
Level: ITEM
Extent: 4 manuals; 5 other items
Date made: 1922-1967; 1923-1943 1928-1929 1928-1937 circa 1940 1935-1940
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London