Shipbuilding
This class consists of sixteen documents relating to shipbuilding, eighteenth to twentieth centuries. They include a description of the machine which steered the IPSWICH across the Atlantic after the rudder had been carried away, 1746; the agreement for the building of an East India Company ship, the PRESTON, 1798; a patent for improvement in side propellors for ocean and river vessels, 1865; and papers relating to Admiral Sir Percy Scott's (1853-1924) proposed battleship design, 1911.
Administrative / biographical background
Shipbuilding - documents
Administrative / biographical background
Shipbuilding - documents
Record Details
| Item reference: | SCS; GB 0064 |
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| Catalogue Section: | Manuscript documents acquired singly by the Museum |
| Level: | COLLECTION |
| Extent: | 16 items |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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- Letter patent for improvement in side propellers for ocean and river vessels granted to Luke Thomas, 1865, (Related Material SCS/18). (Manuscript) (SCS/1)
- Articles of agreement between Frances Barnard, widow of William Barnard shipbuilder, and William Hamilton, merchant, to build a ship for the East India Company in Bernard's yard at Deptford. (Manuscript) (SCS/2)
- Souvenir card of the launching of HMS PRINCE CONSORT at Pembroke Dock on 26 June 1862. (Manuscript) (SCS/3)
- Description of the machine which steered HMS IPSWICH home from Bermuda to Plymouth, Mar-April 1746, diagram with explanatory notes, n.d. and unsigned. (Manuscript) (SCS/4)
- Diagram of apparatus for hoisting foremast of HMS PHAETON, 1805. (Manuscript) (SCS/5)
- John Favier: observations of the qualities of HMS DEPTFORD storeship, printed form. (Manuscript) (SCS/6)
- Lieutenant E May's improved system of lowering and disengaging ships boats, 1866. (Manuscript) (SCS/7)
- Edward Harper and Christopher Wilson: petition presented to the House of Commons by Harper and Wilson, 1809. (Manuscript) (SCS/8)
- Diagram showing the stern of a ship with a topmast rudder hard down c.1805. (Manuscript) (SCS/9)
- John List, civil engineer: drawing and specification of Napier-List coffee machine, 1890. (Manuscript) (SCS/10)
- Messrs R Napier and Sons, Govan Yard, shipbuilders: particulars of vessels and of iron clads built in tabular form. (Manuscript) (SCS/11)
- HMS GUNNERY: papers relating to Sir Percy Scott's design for HMS GUNNERY, 1911. (Manuscript) (SCS/12)
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