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Logbook of Mid T W Burt for Steam Frigate ASSAYE and CONSTANCE (Manuscript)
1856-01-01 - 1857-10-04
RUSI/NM/142/1
Logbook of T W Burt on HMS AJDAHA, HMS ASSAYE, HM Sloop FALKLAND. Includes two diagrams of HCSF AUCKLAND. (Manuscript)
1860-01-08 - 1860-01-07
RUSI/NM/142/4
Logbook of T W Burt for HC Sloop CLIVE, HM Steam Frigate AUCKLAND, HM Steamer LADY CANNING, HMS AJDAHA. (Manuscript)
1858-10-14 - 1858-10-13
RUSI/NM/142/3
Logbook kept by T W Burt for CONSTANCE, HC Sloop of War CLIVE, HC Schooner GEORGIANA. (Manuscript)
1856-10-05 - 1861-12-31
RUSI/NM/142/2
Private journals and memoranda books of Lt William Bryan Wyke, 1782-99. HMS GIBRALTAR, VILLE DE PARIS, THESEUS, VICTORY, PRINCE GEORGE, BOYNE. (Manuscript)
1782-01-01 - 1799-12-31
RUSI/NM/35-36
List of ships of the Royal Navy and foreign navies with their dimensions, when and where they were built and number of guns, from 16th Century to 19th Century in 8 Volumes. (Manuscript)
1600-1900
RUSI/NM/61-72
Documents concerning orders and regualtions of HMS SUPERB and watch bill and hammock list of HMS SPARTIATE. (Manuscript)
1805-01-01 - ?
RUSI/NM/110
A series of letters, orders, memos, notes and pay sheets. (Manuscript)
1636-1853
RUSI/NM/86
Diary of Dorothy Riou (d.1855) wife of Col Lyde Brown and daughter of Dorothy and Stephen, n.d. (Manuscript)
RUSI/NM/235/R/7
Papers of Colonel Lyde Brown, 21st Regt, d.1803, n.d. (Manuscript)
RUSI/NM/235/R/8
Papers relating to Matthew Riou, d.1727 (Manuscript)
RUSI/NM/235/R/2
Journal of a voyage across the continent of New Spain, from St. Blas in the Northern Pacific Ocean to La Vera Cruz in the Gulf of Mexico, by Lieutenant William Robert Broughton, 1793. (Manuscript)
1762-01-01 - 1821-12-31
RUSI/NM/132/2
Printed table of the length, weight etc of guns and carronades, n.d. (Manuscript)
RUSI/NM/252
List of ships of the Royal Navy with their dimensions, when and where they were built and number of guns. (Manuscript)
1665-01-01 - 1864-12-31
RUSI/NM/63
papers of the Benson family, circa 1790-1885. (Manuscript)
circa 1790 - 1885
RUSI/NM/235/R/9/1
A list of His Majesty's Ships and Sloops that are Gunn'd agreable to the Establishment in 1746, and the Irregular Ships, Sloops and Yachts, that are not Gunn'd to that establishment, n.d. (Manuscript)
RUSI/NM/6
Nautical hints and necessary alterations and improvements, n.d. (Manuscript)
RUSI/NM/86/3
Bearings and distances of the West India Islands by the magnetic compass with directions for sailing from Jamaica through the windward passage, directions for running down the trades to the Spanish Main and a description of Ratan, n.d. (Manuscript)
RUSI/NM/86/2
General instructions to be observed by the Commanders of HM Ships, last entry 1683 (Manuscript)
1683-01-01 - ?
RUSI/NM/135
Alphabetical list of the Ship's Company and Marines of HMS VALIANT, 1810 (Manuscript)
1810-01-01 - ?
RUSI/NM/119
Printed Liste Generale des Officiers de la Marine, 1792. (Manuscript)
1792-01-01 - ?
RUSI/NM/113
A confidential report addressed to the Right Hon. Sir James Graham, First Lord of the Admiralty, respecting the Baltic fleet and the state of the defences at Kronstadt, Revel etc, 1 Oct 1853 (Manuscript)
1853-01-01 - ?
RUSI/NM/86/28
Number and weight of copper sheets, nails, pintles etc, used in coppering the bottom of HMS BEDFORD of 74 guns, at Plymouth dockyard, with cost of work and materials, 7 May 1779 (Manuscript)
1779-01-01 - ?
RUSI/NM/86/15
A manuscript of Navigation with Treatises on Astronomy, perspective, tides, surveying, fortification, laws of motion and gunnery. Illustrated with maps, plans, diagrams, by Thomas Cornewall, 1746 (Manuscript)
1746-01-01 - ?
RUSI/NM/107
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