Uncatalogued: HMS KINGFISHER: Captain's Log 1954-58; Leiutenant-Commander Clutterbuck's journal (1953); rescue handbook; envelope of correspondences; printed journal of R.N.S.R. July 1955.
HMS KINGFISHER: Captain's Log 1954-58, comprehensive, contains detailed navigational and nautical charts, personal and professional pictures, as well as an assortment of ephemera pasted onto various pages; Journal of the visit of Lieutenant-Commander R.J. Clutterbuck to the U.S.A. to study A.S.R.S' between the 23rd October to 9th November 1953 - a similarly comprehensive and eclectic collection of documents and images decorate the volume, and a useful prefatory index is also included; rescue handbook; Rescue Handbook - printed instructional booklet regarding submarine accidents and correct procedure when mooring/plotting/operation of the aforementioned bell; Sheaf of loose leaf correspondences and other documents detailing and logging the activity of the HMS KINGFISHER; printed journal of R.N.S.R. July 1955, item of interest likely due to the article written by the aformentioned R.J. Clutterbuck, titled 'The Submarine Rescue Bell' (pp. 171-7).
Record Details
| Item reference: | MSS/70/117; MS1970/117 MSS/70/117 |
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| Catalogue Section: | Uncatalogued material |
| Level: | ITEM |
| Extent: | 1 package |
| Date made: | 1954-1958 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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- Uncatalogued: Correspondence of J Mitchell, a tailor of Portsmouth: I from Lieutenant J V Anson, December 1836; II from Lord Henry Russell, September 1840. (Manuscript) (MSS/70/002)
- Uncatalogued: Relics of Samuel Simmonds: Service Certificate April 1857- May 1875; Pension Certificate May 1875; Sebastopol Medal 1854; India Medal 1857-8. (Manuscript) (MSS/70/003)
- Uncatalogued: 6 Negatives of posters for the GREAT BRITAIN and the CALCUTTA, 1853-61. (Manuscript) (MSS/70/004)
- Uncatalogued: Photocopies of notes on Ships built of the River Exe. (Manuscript) (MSS/70/007)
- Uncatalogued: Photocopy of typescript of report to directors of Great Western Steamship Company, by I.K. Brunel, dated 10th October 1840. (Manuscript) (MSS/70/008)
- Uncatalogued: Two manuscript notebooks about the Humber Keels written by the donor lately a Keel Captain. (Manuscript) (MSS/70/011)
- Uncatalogued: Death certificate for Fred Heaton killed in action 25 August 1918. (Manuscript) (MSS/70/012)
- Uncatalogued: Photocopy of list of ships with dimensions by Captain Hooch. (Manuscript) (MSS/70/014)
- Uncatalogued: Journals of Joseph Smith, including one inserted into the middle of a printed booklet, 'Treatise on Foreign and Native Herbal Remedies', dated 1879-80; and one testimonial dated 23 August 1879. (Manuscript) (MSS/70/018)
- Uncatalogued: Typescript of Notes provided by P E Robinson, former engine room artificer on HMS Swan (Autobiographical Material). (Manuscript) (MSS/70/019)
- Uncatalogued: A continuous certification of discharge for Garratt Barron, 1914 - 1919. (Manuscript) (MSS/70/020)
- Uncatalogued: 20 volumes, including some logs from the D.R. Foote Collection. Late Nineteenth Early Twentieth Century. (Manuscript) (MSS/70/022)
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