Signal notebook containing telegraph signals used at Plymouth, kept by Captain Richard Boger in HMS CAMBRIDGE.
Signal notebook containing telegraph signals used at Plymouth, kept by Captain Richard Boger in HMS CAMBRIDGE in Hamoaze Bay, the volume contains copies of orders from Admiral Richard King, C-in-C, Plymouth to the CAMBRIDGE and orders from the CAMBRIDGE to the midshipman on duty at Maker church Tower, illustrated with watercolours of the tower (formerly SIG/3 and SM175)
Record Details
| Item reference: | SIG/B/55 |
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| Catalogue Section: | Manuscript volumes acquired singly by the Museum |
| Level: | ITEM |
| Date made: | 1796-01-01 - 1798-12-31; 1796-1798 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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- Manuscript signal book including additional signals of Sir John Norris in the RANELAGH. (Manuscript) (SIG/B/1)
- Manuscript signal book, including Vice-Admiral Anson's additional signals by night. (Manuscript) (SIG/B/2)
- Manuscript signal book with thumb index of coloured flags, containing 'Admiral Saunders' Signals', ca.1760. (Manuscript) (SIG/B/3)
- Manuscript 'Signal Book for the Ships of War'; bound with 'instructions for the conduct of Ships of War, explanatory of, and, relative to the signals contained in the signal book'. (Manuscript) (SIG/B/4)
- Manuscript signal book arranged with a thumb index of coloured flags, and referring to the printed instructions, ca.1740s. (Manuscript) (SIG/B/5)
- Manuscript signal book with ANTELOPE on cover, ca.1756. (Manuscript) (SIG/B/6)
- Manuscript signal book with thumb index of coloured flags entitled 'The General Printed Signals with Additionals'. (Manuscript) (SIG/B/7)
- Manuscript signal book used by the fleet under the command of Admiral Sir Charles Hardy, 1779. (Manuscript) (SIG/B/9)
- Manuscript signal book used by the fleet under the command of Vice-Admiral Darby, 1780. (Manuscript) (SIG/B/10)
- Manuscript signal book, (incomplete), also used as a notebook for sailing directions, kept by Captain James Bradby, 1781. (Manuscript) (SIG/B/11)
- Manuscript signal book with thumb index, also used as a notebook for mathematical problems, kept by William Ellison, 1789. (Manuscript) (SIG/B/12)
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