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Uncatalogued: Letter from James Miller describing the sinking of HMS CAMPERDOWN, 1893.

Letter from James Miller, midshipman, to his aunt, describing the sinking of HMS CAMPERDOWN after its collision with HMS VICTORIA in 1893, dated 15 July 1893.

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ID:	MSS/78/079
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	1893
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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)

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