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Instructions for the use of the Douglas-Schäfer sounding traveller.

Instructions for the use of the Douglas-Schäfer sounding traveller, Hydrographic Department publication; also letter from Commander H.P. Douglas to the father of Lieutenant J S Schäfer, 1912 (Formerly NVA/1)

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ID:	NVT/39
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	1912-01-01 - ?; 1912
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Parts:	Navigation: Theory (Manuscript) Spanish Navigators Manual with later notes on Astronomy. (Manuscript) (NVT/1) Italian lecture notes on navigation and Astronomy. Latin. (Manuscript) (NVT/2) Treatise on Navigation and Fortification by De Junquieres. French. (Manuscript) (NVT/3) General course of navigation compiled by John Marshall. (Manuscript) (NVT/4) "Viaticum Nautarum or The Sailor's Vade Mecum": a treatise on finding longitude at sea by Astronomical Observations by Robert Wright. (Manuscript) (NVT/5) Navigation workbook kept by Daniell Sephtonal. (Manuscript) (NVT/6) Treatise on Navigation by Fransisco da Costa. Portuguese. (Manuscript) (NVT/7) Navigation workbook kept by William Downman. (Manuscript) (NVT/8) Navigation workbook. English. (Manuscript) (NVT/9) Treatise and workbook on navigation kept by James Tilden. (Manuscript) (NVT/10) Navigation workbook kept by Mr R. Pechell. (Manuscript) (NVT/11) Treatise on Astronomy including a description of the Perpetual Kalleder by Thomas Willford. (Manuscript) (NVT/12) Navigation workbook kept by James Clarke. (Manuscript) (NVT/13) Part of a Mathematical Treatise. (Manuscript) (NVT/14) Navigation workbook kept by James Fall. (Manuscript) (NVT/15) Navigation workbook kept by Edward Ward. (Manuscript) (NVT/16) Mathematical workbook on measurements of heights and distances. (Manuscript) (NVT/17) Navigation workbook and journal kept by E. Mourilyan. (Manuscript) (NVT/18) Remarks of old time relating to the art of the sea and the building of ships. italian, 1470 and related material. (Manuscript) (NVT/19) Ibrahim Haggi. Marefit Nameh. Turkish. Book of Science. (Manuscript) (NVT/20) Study of navigation, kept by John Willyams. (Manuscript) (NVT/21) Transferred to SMP/3. (Manuscript) (NVT/22) Navigation notebook with additional sections on a Man of War, details of pay, and an abbreviated ship list kept by John Moore. (Manuscript) (NVT/23) Navigation notebook, containing a journal of a voyage from England to Charleston in the ship CAROLINA. (Manuscript) (NVT/24) Treatise on navigation by observation of the sun and stars. Agostino Cesareo. (Manuscript) (NVT/25) Navigational notebook of Captain William Dean. (Manuscript) (NVT/26) Navigational notebook of Captain Herbert. (Manuscript) (NVT/27) Textbook of astronomical and navigational problems. (Manuscript) (NVT/28) A Plan of Navigation, as taught by Lieutenant Humphris, by Stephen Old. (Manuscript) (NVT/29) Notebook of problems and exercises in navigation, by Benjamin Hazell. (Manuscript) (NVT/30) The Elements of Navigation, by William Middlemist. (Manuscript) (NVT/31) Exercises in Navigation, by Philip Coward. (Manuscript) (NVT/32) Notebook on Navigation, Arthur Reginald Chorley, HMS CONWAY. (Manuscript) (NVT/33) Navigational Exercises and copy of the logbook of the ESDAILE, by Thomas Wotton. (Manuscript) (NVT/34) Elements of Navigation, by George A. Bedford, Christ's Hospital. (Manuscript) (NVT/35) Elements of Navigation, by Matthew Shepherdson. (Manuscript) (NVT/36) Improvements in the doctrine of the sphere, Samuel Dunn. (Manuscript) (NVT/37) The current angle and distance tables calculated to counteract the effect of a current setting...by G.E. Hoar. (Manuscript) (NVT/38) Instructions for the use of the Douglas-Schäfer sounding traveller. (Manuscript) (NVT/39) Brouscon, Guillaume: Xylographic Nautical Almanac on vellum. From Samuel Pepys' own library. (Manuscript) (NVT/40) Navigation Exercise books and related material kept by William George Tennant. (Manuscript) (NVT/41) "Elements of Navigation" by F.W.Horne. (Manuscript) (NVT/42) Notebook kept by Ralph Baker, senior captain of the B.I.S.N.C, on a navigation course at University College Southampton. (Manuscript) (NVT/43) Volume entitled 'Pilotage' written by Admiral Sir Charles Little. (Manuscript) (NVT/44) Navigational treatise written by James Cassels. (Manuscript) (NVT/45) Navigational papers belonging to Commander Colin Mackenzie Dundas, RN (1842-1911). (Manuscript) (NVT/46) Commonplace workbook kept by William Spink, RN, including mathematical calculations and methods for calculating at sea. (Manuscript) (NVT/47)

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