Personal letters from Irish P&O commander Nicholas Skottowe to his friend Robert Dobbyn, a solicitor in Waterford in 1854.

4 personal letters written by Irish P&O commander Nicholas Skottowe to his friend Robert Dobbyn, a solicitor in Waterford in 1854. The letters concern 2 troop carrying voyages to Constantinople in the new P&O steamers HIMALAYA and SIMLA, at the beginning of the Crimean War.

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ID:	AGC/S/34
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Measurements:	1 folder
Parts:	Letters - S (Manuscript) Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell: instructions to Captain Richard Haddock, 30 July 1705 regarding his operations off the Spanish coast. (Manuscript) (AGC/S/1) Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell: Navy Office letter dated April 1702 signed Shovell and others regarding boom and materials for a chain for St John's harbour. (Manuscript) (AGC/S/2) Alexander John Scott, Nelson's secretary: copy of Nelson's memorandum of 9 Oct 1805 in Scott's handwriting. (Manuscript) (AGC/S/3) Rear-Admiral Sir Hamnet H Share, Paymaster: letter to Lieutenant Commander L R D Helm describing the death of Lord Jellicoe, dated 7 Dec 1935. (Manuscript) (AGC/S/4) T C Spaulding, master of a whaler: letter to unknown dated Anger, 1 September 1858 regarding whaling in the Southern Ocean. (Manuscript) (AGC/S/5) Adm-Fleet Sir Edward Seymour: letter to his mother; W R Seymour (brother to Sir Edward): letter to his father, dated ENTERPRISE Rosarie. (Manuscript) (AGC/S/6) Letter from lower deck seaman CH Swinburne, 1814. (Manuscript) (AGC/S/7) Admiral W H Smyth: letters to Sir John Phillippart, 1845-60, with an undated postscript. (Manuscript) (AGC/S/8) Gen Sir Edward Sabine: holograph to John P Shewell, written on board HMS ISABELLA, before the departure to the North West Passage. (Manuscript) (AGC/S/9) Admiral Sir James Scott: letter to Sir John Phillippart on naval patronage. (Manuscript) (AGC/S/10) Lord St Vincent: letter to Benjamin Tucker saying he prefers the American to the Mediterranean Station. (Manuscript) (AGC/S/11) Captain W H Sweny: letters to Captain James Scott. (Manuscript) (AGC/S/12) Ernest Shackleton: letter to Miss Dawson-Lambton, one of the benefactors of the British Antarctic Expedition, with two photographs (one autographed) of Shackleton and his children. (Manuscript) (AGC/S/13) J Sinclair: letter to Captain Edward Brenton, describing Napoleon's voyage to Elba. (Manuscript) (AGC/S/14) Sir Robert Stopford: letter to Lord Howe regarding Mr Harrison who was accused of being intoxicated while at the Palace. (Manuscript) (AGC/S/15) Rev Scott: letter to the Rev Thomas, HMS AMPHION at sea, asking him to receive his M.A. degree by proxy and giving news of Nelson when on board his ship. (Manuscript) (AGC/S/16) Rear-Admiral Samuel Sutton: letters to his brother while Captain of HMS VICTORY. (Manuscript) (AGC/S/17) Walter Stock: letter to his brother and sister written on board the HEREFORD, concerning the ship, her history and life on board. (Manuscript) (AGC/S/18) James Saumarez, Lord de Saumarez: letters to Rear-Admiral Sir John Rose, n.d., and to the Rt. Hon Mr Justice Erskine, 4 April 1831?. (Manuscript) (AGC/S/19) Captain William Shield: letter to the Navy Board. (Manuscript) (AGC/S/20) Letter from J.R. Smith, to his parents, including "extracts from my journal". (Manuscript) (AGC/S/21) Letter to Admiral Sir Sidney Smith (1764-1840), describing the capture of the SWIFTSURE, captained by Benjamin Hallowell. (Manuscript) (AGC/S/22) Letter written by Captain Sir Sidney Smith(1764-1840), dated TIGRE, Aboukir Bay 6th March [1799?]. (Manuscript) (AGC/S/23) Letter, Arthur Sewall II, Assistant to the President of Todd-Bath Iron Shipbuilding Corporation to Mrs H R Gibbs, South Portland, Maine, 3 June 1942. (Letter) (AGC/S/24) Autograph letter written by Sir Cloudeseley Shovell, 1692. (Manuscript) (AGC/S/25) Letter from Ernest Shackleton to Captain Howson. (Manuscript) (AGC/S/26) Letter written by LUSITANIA disaster survivor Walter Reinhold Storch to the sister of Mary Nicol. (Letter) (AGC/S/27) Letter from Kathleen Scott to Lady Sandhurst. (Manuscript) (AGC/S/28) Letter from Captain John Stapleton and the loss of his ship CONQUEST. (Manuscript) (AGC/S/29) Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Astronomer Royal, Letter to 'Woppie' dated 23 January 1941. (Manuscript) (AGC/S/30) Letter from Hector Smith, R.N. to Miss Katherine Elizabeth Buckle (née Staines Alcock). (manuscripts) (AGC/S/31) Copy of a letter written by Mrs Molly Bernard-Smith to her sister describing the 18 day voyage on SS HIGHLAND CHIEF and all the trouble they suffered. (Manuscript) (AGC/S/32) Letter of sympathy for Mary Syder wife of the murdered Captain Syder of the SS GREYHOUND, 1885. (Manuscript) (AGC/S/33) Personal letters from Irish P&O commander Nicholas Skottowe to his friend Robert Dobbyn, a solicitor in Waterford in 1854. (Manuscript) (AGC/S/34)

Personal letters from Irish P&O commander Nicholas Skottowe to his friend Robert Dobbyn, a solicitor in Waterford in 1854.

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