Typescript of Manuscripts held at the National Archives and NMM. Extracts concerning the Compass, includes the National Archives ADM 106/1549, Navy Board Promiscuous In Letters, a range of material re: ADM 106 and The Francis Crow Compass
Typescript of Manuscripts held at the National Archives and NMM. Extracts concerning the Compass, includes the National Archives ADM 106/1549, Navy Board Promiscuous In Letters, a range of material re: ADM 106 and The Francis Crow Compass (brief description of individual items), NMM Navy Board Letters to Admiralty, ADM/B.P/36B, Extracts, NMM Chatham Commissioner Out- Letters to Navy Board, 1706-26 and additional National Archives material re: ADM 49/25 and L.C 5/166, Lord Chamberlain's Books
Record Details
| Item reference: | MAA/16; MS1981/135 |
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| Catalogue Section: | Personal collections |
| Level: | ITEM |
| Creator: | May, William Edward |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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- Thesis/essay, A Circuit of Compasses, W. E. May, 1976 (Manuscript) (MAA/2)
- The Compass Department I, Naval Officers of the Compass Department, Biographies of Officers in the Compass Department: Johnson, Evans, Mayes, Creak, Henderson (Manuscript) (MAA/3)
- The Compass Department II, Typescript transcripts of Biographies of the Officers in the Compass Department: Chetwynd, Strange, Drake, Tully and Douglas, including typescripts of the cost of the Compass Department and report of the Admiralty Compass Committee (Manuscript) (MAA/4)
- Notes on the books in the library of the Admiralty Compass Observatory at Slough, compiled by May (Manuscript) (MAA/6)
- Chronological list of Patents concerning compasses, Book 1, 1731- 1915, compiled by May (Manuscript) (MAA/7)
- Chronological list of Patents concerning compasses, Book 2, 1915- 1937, compiled by May (Manuscript) (MAA/8)
- Index to Compass Makers and companies, no date (Manuscript) (MAA/9)
- A list of Historical Nautical Publishers (chronological) and a List of the Gabb Collection, some correspondence, 1958, plus additional miscellaneous material (Manuscript) (MAA/10)
- Index, A-Z, Subject listings and references to journals, pamphlets, and manuscripts. Covers a range of nautical and maritime themes (Manuscript) (MAA/11)
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