Notes, newspaper cuttings and pamphlets, circa 1911-1933.

Notes and newspaper cuttings circa 1924-1933 relating to the work of C. Fox Smith, also a letter from C.K. McIntosh(?), dated 29 July 1924, enclosing notes on a voyage of the AUSTRIANA from Liverpool to Iquique and then back to Falmouth. The cuttings feature articles on ship figureheads, the last surviving large sailing vessels including the C.B. PEDERSEN, GARTHNEILL, MONKBARNS, SOBRAON and WILLIAM MITCHELL, also obituaries for the Reverend James Fell, founder of the Seamen’s Institute at San Francisco. There are also some printed pamphlets on various subjects including an article on inscriptions left by early European navigators on their way to the East, the Sea School at Gravesend, the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights, Liverpool clippers, and an exhibition of shipping company house flags at Poplar Recreation Ground on the occasion of the Coronation of King George V in 1911.

Record Details

Item reference: FXM/9/C
Catalogue Section: Personal collections
Level: ITEM
Date made: circa 1911-1933
Creator: Smith, Cicely Fox
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London