Research notes of Alan Pearsall, 1951-1975.

The collection consists of seminar papers, research notes and correspondence relating to Pearsall's postgraduate studies and his later interests while employed at the National Maritime Museum. The main research topics are the Royal Navy in China, river steamers on the Yangtze and Irish Sea ferry services.

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ID:	NOT/43
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	circa 1951-1973; 1951-1975
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	2 boxes
Parts:	Historical Notes (Manuscript) W.J. King: article on Chinese Junks. (Manuscript) (NOT/1) Hugh Logan: Drake's harbour on the Californian coast. (Manuscript) (NOT/2) Transferred to THS/31. (Manuscript) (NOT/3) F.V. Smythe: article on Dunbar Wharf, Limehouse, and the firm of Duncan Dunbar, with a list of Dunbar ships, 19th century. (Manuscript) (NOT/4) R & D Holeworthy: transcript of names of all witnesses in High Court of Admiralty Examinations, volumes 17-27, 1569-89, notebook in pencil. (Manuscript) (NOT/5) A.D. Browning: 'Lash up and stow', an article about training on board the IMPREGNABLE, 1906. (Manuscript) (NOT/6) J. Frank: 'Keels - sloops of the Humber and its tributaries', article, illustrated with sketches (see 'Mariner's Mirror', Vol.41, November 1955, No.4). (Manuscript) (NOT/7) W.A. King-Webster: notes on Florida shrimp trawling with the double rig, Feb 1959, typescript and two photographs. (Manuscript) (NOT/8) Prof Geoffrey Callender: notes on drawings of Calvin, Charles V and Luther, to illustrate his lectures on foreign history to naval cadets, c.1905. (Manuscript) (NOT/9) Account of the Deal Fish (Trachypterus Arcticus), caught 1879. (Manuscript) (NOT/10) National Maritime Museum, a review for the period 1937-66, by R.C. Lowen. (Manuscript) (NOT/11) Notes on signals for sounding and the early use of flags by Frank Carr and John Munday, n.d., 20th century. (Manuscript) (NOT/12) Visit to Heligoland, 1919, by Captain S B de Courcy Ireland, n.d. (Manuscript) (NOT/13) An old East Indiaman - the JAVA, by H Fildes, 1813-1919. (Manuscript) (NOT/14) A panorama of Portsmouth Dockyard in 1754 by John Marsh, n.d. (Manuscript) (NOT/15) C. L'Estrange Ewen: notes on piracy with family and business letters, 20th century. (Manuscript) (NOT/16) Notes on the wreck of the LUTINE, Oct 1799 entitled 'HMS LA LUTINE', typescript. (Manuscript) (NOT/17) Notes on the wreck of the LUTINE: some materials for the true story of the LUTINE, by J.J. Fletcher, typescript, 1799. (Manuscript) (NOT/18) Notes by A G E Jones on 'The Quest for Franklin' by Admiral Noel Wright, London, 1959. (Manuscript) (NOT/19) Recollections of Bridlington Harbour, by Eric Mellor, 19th-20th century. (Manuscript) (NOT/20) Bridlington Harbour to the mid-19th century, by Eric Mellor and others. (Manuscript) (NOT/21) Account of the QUEEN VICTORIA, St Lawrence tug, built 1856, by H.F. Pullen, with a photostat showing the sister ship NAPOLEON III, 1856-66. (Manuscript) (NOT/22) Last of the clippers, CUTTY SARK, by Jack Campbell (in Japanese), 19th-20th century. (Manuscript) (NOT/23) Appleton, Sydney: notes on photographs of Deal boats which appeared in the Mariner's Mirror, 1961. (Manuscript) (NOT/24) F F Woodruft: 'Medway cement barges', 19th century. (Manuscript) (NOT/25) Commander F W H Bradley: 'Ontario and Lake Erie in 1813'. (Manuscript) (NOT/26) Admiral Lord Nelson: pedigree of Nelson extracted from the records of the College of Arms, dated 19 Dec 1804. (Manuscript) (NOT/27) Captain P H Warleigh: 'Carry On' and 'The Custom of the Service' together with the notes made in compiling his work, n.d. (Manuscript) (NOT/28) Sir William Hargood: typescript notes about his career. Permission of Captain Ingram necessary for use, (transferred from BGY/4/2). (Manuscript) (NOT/29) Notes relating to the history of the history of the R.N.V.R. compiled ca.1954 by Captain L.L. Withrington, R.N.V.R., (formerly BGY/7/9). (Manuscript) (NOT/30) Notes on the Royal Naval Air Service by Group Captain Charles R.J. Randall, together with some biographical information. (Manuscript) (NOT/31) 'The Influence of Sea Power on the British Position in India, 1715-1815', by P.J. Politt, Keble college Oxford, Feb 1950, (Curzon Memorial Prize Essay). (Manuscript) (NOT/32) 'The Three Masted Barque SKOMVAER of Porsgrunn, Norway, 1890-1922'; English translation by Marque Grepne, ca.1967. (Manuscript) (NOT/33) 'Laird - Built Vessels - Complete List of Vessels built by Cammell, Laird & Co [Shipbuilding and Engineers] Limited and their predecessors' by G.D. Hawkins, 1960. (Manuscript) (NOT/34) English translated extracts from A. Klebe's 'Gotha und die umliegende Gegende' (Gotha and the surrounding district), 1796, pp 275-287, concerning the Seeberg Observatory. (Manuscript) (NOT/35) Set of index cards giving names of Indian Maritime Medical Service Surgeons, 1760-1833. (Manuscript) (NOT/36) Notes about institutions connected with maritime affairs in the United States and Canada, compiled by P D Dudley from his visits to North American Maritime Organisations and Institutions, 1966-67. (Manuscript) (NOT/37) Paper on the history of 'Aircraft Production' during the First World War, c.1928, by Group-Captain Charles Randall. (Manuscript) (NOT/38) Pedigrees of the Pett and Boucher families, ca.1900. (Manuscript) (NOT/39) Typescript translation of Russian original by P. I. Byelavenets: paper 'On the necessity for a Navy and the significance of the Navy in the history of Russia', 1909. (Manuscript) (NOT/40) Notes and recollections of voyages aboard the "WILLIAM MITCHELL" (1892). (Manuscript) (NOT/41) Notes on the Battle of Jutland. (Manuscript) (NOT/42) Research notes of Alan Pearsall, 1951-1975. (Manuscript) (NOT/43) Ivy M. Sharp, Northwest Passage cruise material. (Manuscript) (NOT/44) Research notes of Commander John Hely Owen, 1938-1939. (Manuscript) (NOT/45)

Research notes of Alan Pearsall, 1951-1975.

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