Ship Cover for various yard craft, primarily tank vessels.

Ship Cover for various yard craft, primarily steam tank vessels and tugs. Some of the tank vessels are too small to appear in mainstream fleet lists and reference works, and so are not referenced in detail here. The vessels of consequence [in terms of size] are the tank vessels Aid (1900), Blossom (1901), Cherub (1901), Chub (1897), Clinker (1901), Creole (1902), Helpful (1902), Hesper (1901), Minx (1900), Monkey (1896), and Tortoise (1897). Also covered are the tugs Assurance (1899), Enterprise (1899) and Tyrian [ex-Adventure] (1900). The documentation is fairly eclectic, consisting primarily of statements of dimensions and weights, stability calculations, general correspondence between the Admiralty, naval representatives and tendering firms, and abstracts of tenders, and some trials reports. The Cover is generally organised by vessel type and port of deployment, and relates in this respect to major naval coaling/victualling bases in home waters and overseas. The date range covered by the papers is December 1895 to September 1916. Some of the documents for Monkey are a continuation of those housed in Cover 103.

Object Details

ID: ADM/SC/147
Type: Manuscript
Display location: Not on display
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 404 mm x 276 mm x 80 mm
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