Outgoing and incoming letterbook (contemporary copies) on board kept by Sir Cloudisley Shovell on board the ANNE, DOVER and MONK frigates.

Manuscript retained copy outgoing & incoming letterbook (with some Journal “Abstracts”) on board the ANNE, DOVER and MONK frigates, for the period May 1687 to July 1690. Copies of letters sent to and from the Secretary to the Admiralty: Samuel Pepys and his successor Phineas Bowles

Administrative / biographical background
The volume covers a voyage to the Mediterreanean, the Glorious Revolution, action in Dublin Bay, his knighthood and promotion to rear-admiral of the blue and the opening of the nine years' war.

Record Details

Item reference: ROM/4; REG14/000588.4 U1515/012
Catalogue Section: Artificial collections previously assembled
Level: ITEM
Date made: 1677 - 1678; 1678 - 1679 1683 1687-1690
Creator: Narbrough, John; Pepys, Samuel Orton, George Shovell, Cloudesley Bowles, Phineas Shovell, Cloudesley
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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