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Memoir of an unknown seaman, circa 1865.

Handwritten memoir of an unknown seaman from Liverpool. It covers a period in the 1860s during which he was employed on the merchant vessels FANNY, IOLANTHE and COUNTESS OF WINTON.

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Object Details

ID:	FXM/30
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	circa 1865
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Parts:	Smith, Cicely Fox, Writer and Poet, 1882-1954. (Manuscript) Logbooks of Henry Ridley James, 1851-1854. (Manuscript) (FXM/1) Remark books of Frederick William Corner on the RODNEY and HESPERUS, 1887-1893. (Manuscript) (FXM/2) Abstract logbooks of Frederick William Corner, 1893-1896. (Manuscript) (FXM/3) Logs of the CITY OF ADELAIDE, 1891-1901. (Manuscript) (FXM/4) Logbook of a voyage across the Pacific, 1895-1896. (Manuscript) (FXM/5) Autobiography by George Sorrell, merchant seaman. (Manuscript) (FXM/6) Autobiography by Thomas Young, master mariner. (Manuscript) (FXM/7) Letters received, 1921-1938. (Manuscript) (FXM/8) Typescript and printed material. (Manuscript) (FXM/9) Photographs of sailing vessels and material relating to the master mariner James William Holmes. (Manuscript) (FXM/10/1-3) Charts, a sail plan, and information on British sailing vessels that traded to Calcutta, 1819-1893. (Manuscript) (FXM/11) Printed book 'A Chronological History of the Voyages and Discoveries in the South Sea and Pacific Ocean'. (Manuscript) (FXM/12) Printed book 'Lloyd's Register of Shipping, Vol.1 Sailing Vessels 1916-17'. (Manuscript) (FXM/13) Newspaper and magazine cuttings of stories, poems and articles, 1917-1939. (Manuscript) (FXM/14) Letters received regarding research on sailing vessels, 1920-1943. (Manuscript) (FXM/15) Letters of appreciation for her work, 1921-1937. (Manuscript) (FXM/16) Newspaper cuttings containing book reviews, 1923-1936. (Manuscript) (FXM/17) Letter from Robert Fuchs-Liska, 1930. (Manuscript) (FXM/18) Handwritten and typewritten transcripts of poems and stories. (Manuscript) (FXM/19) Signed portrait photograph as a young girl. (Manuscript) (FXM/20) Chart of the North-West Passage, 1854. (Manuscript) (FXM/21) Chart of Gonaives Bay, St. Domingo, 1861. (Manuscript) (FXM/22) Chart of Cul-de-Sac du Marin, Martinique, 1862. (Manuscript) (FXM/23) Chart of Marie-Galante and La Deseada, Gaudeloupe, 1874. (Manuscript) (FXM/24) Chart of Jacmel Harbour, St. Domingo, 1876. (Manuscript) (FXM/25) Chart of Acul Bay, St. Domingo, 1876. (Manuscript) (FXM/26) Chart of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1880. (Manuscript) (FXM/27) Chart of Fort Royal Bay, Martinique, 1880. (Manuscript) (FXM/28) Small pocket notebook, circa 1863-1868. (Manuscript) (FXM/29) Memoir of an unknown seaman, circa 1865. (Manuscript) (FXM/30) Notebook on signals. (Manuscript) (FXM/31) Photograph of Lieutenant James Francis Symons, 1919. (Manuscript) (FXM/32) Photographs of ship models and sailing vessels. (Manuscript) (FXM/33) Photograph of two seamen at work. (Manuscript) (FXM/34) Printed booklet ' La Arquitectura Naval Espanola (En Madera)', 1920. (Manuscript) (FXM/35) Printed booklet 'Polynesian Voyagers: The Maori as Deep-Sea Navigator, Explorer and Colonizer', 1923. (Manuscript) (FXM/36) Printed journal 'The Mariner', 1932. (Manuscript) (FXM/37) Printed booklet 'Samuel Pepys as a Naval Administrator', 1933. (Manuscript) (FXM/38) Printed journal 'Association des Amis du Musee de Marine. Quatrieme Bulletin Trimestriel pour 1935'. (Manuscript) (FXM/39) Printed booklet 'Domestic Life on American Sailing Ships', 1942. (Manuscript) (FXM/40) Printed booklet 'The Norman Court', 1947. (Manuscript) (FXM/41) Printed booklet 'A Memorandum of Vessels built at Blackwall Yard'. (Manuscript) (FXM/42) Drawing of the ROYAL CHARLES. (Manuscript) (FXM/43) Print showing sailing barges. (Manuscript) (FXM/44) Letters regarding civil list pension, 1951-1952. (Manuscript) (FXM/45)

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