Papers relating to the survey work of James Cook, 1763-1764.
Admiralty Order for Mr Cook, 1763-4 including Draft of Letters to the Admiralty and papers relating to Mr Cook and his Survey Work. "I send him home in the TWEED in preferance to keeping him on board (the ANTELOPE), that he may have the more time to finish the difficult surveys allready taken of it to be layn before theor Lordships - an to copy the different sketches of ye Coasts and Harbours, taken by ye ships on the several stations by which their Lorships will percieve how extreamly erroneous ye present draughts are and how dangerous to ships that sail by them - and how generally beneficial to Navigation the work now in hand will be when finished."
Record Details
Item reference: | GRV/106 |
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Catalogue Section: | Personal collections |
Level: | ITEM |
Date made: | 1763-1764 |
Creator: | Graves, Thomas |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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- Papers concerning French fishing rights in Newfoundland, 1763-1764. (Manuscript) (GRV/104)
- Papers relating to Newfoundland questionaries, 1763-1764. (Manuscript) (GRV/105)
- Papers relating to the survey work of James Cook, 1763-1764. (Manuscript) (GRV/106)
- Drafts of letters to the Admiralty, 1764-1767. (Manuscript) (GRV/107)
- Drafts of letters to the Admiralty, 1777-1782. (Manuscript) (GRV/108)
- Drafts of letters to the Admiralty, 1800-1801. (Manuscript) (GRV/109)
- Private papers, 1782-1795. (Manuscript) (GRV/110)
- Log of HMS PRINCESS, 1746. (Manuscript) (GRV/111)
- Log of HMS MONMOUTH, 1746-1748. (Manuscript) (GRV/112)
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