Uncatalogued: Volume containing a typescript photocopy of 'The Confessions of a Sewage Works Manager' (reminiscences) by W Batters, 9 December 1968.

Also includes 'Britannia's Bairns' by W Batters, 27 March 1977, depicting lives of Royal Navy seamen who 'went down to the sea in ships' and are short excerpts from Batters earlier writings, crew of various ranks. Includes a copy of 'One of the Bulldog Breed' a 17 page account of his life written 12 June 1978.

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ID:	MSS/78/133
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	1968-1977
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	2 items tied together
Parts:	Manuscript Uncatalogued: Items relating to boatswain Joseph W. Summers, 1883-1912. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/002) Uncatalogued: Upham, Neville Edward, Master Mariner, 1927-2016. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/003) Uncatalogued: Log books kept by Eric V. Grey on HMS REVENGE and then HMS ANDROMEDA, 1903-1906. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/005) Uncatalogued: Documents relating to the barque CHILENA, 1885-1896. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/007) Uncatalogued: Xerox copies of various official documents, circa 1650-1690. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/009) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/013) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/014) Uncatalogued: Xerox copy of the diary of Chief Petty Officer EA Arthur Stanley Sedgwick (Manuscript) (MSS/78/015) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/016) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/019) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/021) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/023) Uncatalogued: Xerox copies of papers regarding the Gulf of Bothnia mail route. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/024) Uncatalogued: Xerox copy of an account of the sinking of the French battleship RICHELIEU, 1940. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/025) Uncatalogued: Passport of Admiral Sir George Westphal, signed by George Canning, 1825-1827. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/026) Uncatalogued: Music book kept by Robert Beausire in 1856 and a set of photographs of ships in Chile circa 1914. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/028) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/029) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/030) Uncatalogued: Journal kept by George Goss Borrett on HMS ACHILLES, HMS DREADNOUGHT and HMS TEMERAIRE in 1914 - 1919. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/031) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/033) Uncatalogued: Journal kept by Lieutenant Cyril Duncan Fenn as a junior officer, 1902-1907. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/034) Uncatalogued: Letter from William Parker to Vice-Admiral Affleck, 1794. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/037) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/039) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/040) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/041) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/042) Uncatalogued: Thomas S Milton, Pilot's certificates (Manuscript) (MSS/78/043) Uncatalogued: Items relating to the Hudson-Fullerton Celebration in 1909 and the Coronation Fleet Review of George V in 1911. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/044) Uncatalogued: Xerox copies of papers relating to John Halcrow and John Robert Halcrow, circa 1800-1850. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/045) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/046) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/047) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/050) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/051) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/052) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/053) Uncatalogued: Bills of lading for the PARAGON, 1821, and the BERNICE, 1835. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/054) Uncatalogued: Journals kept by F.R.M. Johnson. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/058) Uncatalogued: Xerox copy of a notebook relating to surveying in Newfoundland and the transit of Venus, circa 1769-1780. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/060) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/061) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/062) Uncatalogued: Will of James Cruss, midshipman on HMS DRYAD, 1813. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/063) Uncatalogued: Probate of the will of James Boulton, midshipman, 1783. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/064) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/065) Uncatalogued: Letter from the Reverend Sheldon Robert Wilkinson to the trustees of the will of the late Mary de Sturck, 1873. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/066) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/067) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/068) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/069) Loan Returned (Manuscript) (MSS/78/070) Uncatalogued: Memoir, journal and diary supposed to have belonged to Admiral Sir Vesey Hamilton, circa 1850. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/071) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/072) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/074) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/075) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/076) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/077) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/078) Uncatalogued: Letter from James Miller describing the sinking of HMS CAMPERDOWN, 1893. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/079) Uncatalogued: Naval telegrams about the progress of Lord Robert's campaign during the Boer War, 1900. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/081) Uncatalogued: Logbooks kept by John Alexander Webster, Naval Cadet and Midshipman, logbooks cover 15 July 1889 to 14 April 1892 and 15 April 1892 to 30 September 1893 (Manuscript) (MSS/78/082) Uncatalogued: Williams, Dr. C. R. MacGregor, Fl.1922-1954 (Manuscript) (MSS/78/083) Uncatalogued: Handbill each for ships CERES, HAWKE, CHARMING MOLLY, FRIENDS and PROSPECT. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/084) Signals and Sailing Instructions to be observed by the squadron under the command of Sir F. B. Warren, dated 1794. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/085) Uncatalogued: Items relating to John Kemp and Percival Kemp, circa 1876-1913. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/087/1) Uncatalogued: Torpedo manual used by Percival Kemp, circa 1908. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/087/2) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/088) Uncatalogued: Transcript of a journal kept by A.B. Finnigan on the WILLIAM MITCHELL, 1927. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/090) Uncatalogued: Xerox copy of a history of the India General Steam Navigation Co Ltd, written by Captain Alfred Brame. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/091) Uncatalogued: Certificate awarded to Hector Roberts Merritt at the Royal Hospital School, Greenwich, 1911. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/092) Uncatalogued: Xerox copes of two letters from Horatio Nelson, VICTORY, to Sir Thomas Freemantle, 6 January 1804 and16 August 1805. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/093) Uncatalogued: Two batches of correspondence relating to Lord Jellicoe and R.H. Gibson, 1918-1933. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/094) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/095) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/098) Uncatalogued: Certificate for the appointment of Lieutenant John Bryant, 1799. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/099) Uncatalogued: Account of the bombardment of Alexandria, 1882. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/100) Uncatalogued: Six letters from Captain Arthur Knyvet Wilson, circa 1881-1884. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/101) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/103) Uncatalogued: Bill of lading relating to the INO and Samuel Nelson & Co, 1834. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/104) Uncatalogued: Translation of 'Hvor Sydlyset Flammer Kristiania Og Kobenhavn' 'South with Scott 1910-19' by Tryggve Gran. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/106) Writing album kept on board HMS BIRMINGHAM, 1916. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/107) Uncatalogued: Photographs and modelmaking handbook relating to HMS VICTORY, circa 1932. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/109) Uncatalogued: Daily Order Book kept by Captain T G Shortland, HMS CANOPUS and HMS QUEEN, September 1806 to April 1810. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/110) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/112) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/113) Two large sheets of signal flags with envelope (Manuscript) (MSS/78/114) Uncatalogued: Log books from Gog and Magog Telegraph Station, Suffolk, 1810-1814. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/115) Uncatalogued: Green, Joseph Fletcher, 1846-1923 (Manuscript) (MSS/78/116) Segnali instructione ed evoluziani per le squadre di sua maestra il re delle due sicilie (Manuscript) (MSS/78/117) Uncatalogued: Original text of 'Chinese Maritime Customs Service' by B. Foster Hall, 1977. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/119) Uncatalogued: Cassette recording of traditional Cape Malay folk song with explanatory matter. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/120) Uncatalogued: Items relating to Ernest Benjamin Ellis and Walter H. Ellis, 1918-1945. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/121) Uncatalogued: Report from the log of R.I.M.S. LADY CRADDOCK, describing a cyclone, 1926 (Manuscript) (MSS/78/122) Uncatalogued: Shipbuilding apprenticeship papers of Christopher Clemett, 1887-1895. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/123) Uncatalogued: Papers relating to Sir Charles Loudon Barnard, Royal Marine Artillery, circa 1840-1890. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/124) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/125) Uncatalogued: Items relating to Sidney Ernest Pilbeam, circa 1930-1953. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/126) Uncatalogued: Papers relating to Vice-Admiral Robert Lloyd and Captain Thomas Parry Jones Parry, circa 1798-1837. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/130) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/131) Uncatalogued: Volume containing a typescript photocopy of 'The Confessions of a Sewage Works Manager' (reminiscences) by W Batters, 9 December 1968. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/133) Uncatalogued: Papers relating to HMS KENT and the Battle of the Falkland Islands, 1914. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/135) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/137) Uncatalogued: Xerox copies of two diaries kept by Surgeon Llewelyn Arnold Baiss on the China Station, 1901-1902. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/138) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/140) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/141) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/142) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/143) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/144) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/145) Uncatalogued: Letterbook kept by Captain Ross Donnelly on HMS MAIDSTONE and HMS NARCISSUS, 1798-1803. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/146) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/147) Uncatalogued: Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co Ltd (Manuscript) (MSS/78/148) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/150) Uncatalogued: Xerox copy of the memoir of Arthur Nicholls, Royal Corps of Naval Constructors, circa 1946. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/151) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/154) Uncatalogued: Items relating to the Garriock family (Manuscript) (MSS/78/155) Uncatalogued: Printed material and photographs relating to John Burke, a sick berth attendant in the Royal Navy. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/156) Uncatalogued: Xerox copy of typescript notes on Simon's Town Naval Cemetery. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/158) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/159) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/161) Uncatalogued: Letters to Stephen Reynolds regarding literary matters, circa 1908-1913. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/162) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/166) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/168) Uncatalogued: Assignment of the ship GAMBID and her cargo, 1788, and a deed of transfer, 1766. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/169) Uncatalogued: Kelly, Sir John Donald, Admiral of the Fleet, 1871-1936. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/170) Uncatalogued: Midshipman's journal kept by Clive Muspratt Brunner. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/171) Uncatalogued - various documents (Manuscript) (MSS/78/172) Uncatalogued: First day covers and letters relating to Vice-Admiral Hyman G. Rickover and his wife, circa 1960-1969. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/173) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/175) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/177) Uncatalogued: Mack, Frederick Robert Joseph, Rear-Admiral, 1897-1959 (Manuscript) (MSS/78/179) Uncatalogued: Apprenticeship indentures for George Clemmett at Devonport Dockyard, 1927. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/182) Uncatalogued: Letters and orders relating to the supply of ordnance to H.M ships, 1742-1749. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/186) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/187) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/188) Uncatalogued: Further items relating to Admiral of the Fleet Lord Chatfield, circa 1938. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/189) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/190) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/191) Uncatalogued: Vaughan, Herbert Reginald H, Paymaster Commander, 1893-1978 (Manuscript) (MSS/78/193) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/194) Uncatalogued: Logs kept by Gresham Nicholson as a midshipman on HMS TEMERAIRE, 1911-1913. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/195) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/198) Uncatalogued: Papers relating to Captain Frederick Edwards, 1874-1883. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/199) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/200) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/201) Uncatalogued: Papers of Henry Simon Jackson, 1846-1859. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/202) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/203) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/204) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/205) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/206) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/207) Uncatalogued: Wingfield, R. G., Lieutenant-Colonel, Fl. 1939-1975 (Manuscript) (MSS/78/209) Uncatalogued: Xerox copies of papers of R. Ropner & Co Shipowners and Brokers, circa 1860-1950. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/210) Uncatalogued (Manuscript) (MSS/78/211) Uncatalogued: Notes on Naval War Game Rules by Fred T. Jane, 1948. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/214) Uncatalogued: Copy of a report on the work done by 19 Field Park Company SAEC, at Chevalier Island, Ismailia, Egypt, 1942. (Manuscript) (MSS/78/215)

Uncatalogued: Volume containing a typescript photocopy of 'The Confessions of a Sewage Works Manager' (reminiscences) by W Batters, 9 December 1968.

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