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Printed handbook to the signal system established along the coast of France between Flushingand Bayonne (called semaphore).

Printed handbook to the signal system established along the coast of France between Flushingand Bayonne (called semaphore), 1807 together with a key to the signals and three manuscript letters giving additional flag signals. (Formerly L65/56)

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ID:	SIG/C/10
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	1807-01-01 - ?; 1807
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Parts:	Signals: Foreign (Manuscript) Manuscript signalbook kept by Ardisson, pilot of LA ROSE. (Manuscript) (SIG/C/1) Manuscript English translation of French signalbook. 'Advertisement, or General Orders, for the conduct of the squadron under the command of Count D'Aché' . (Manuscript) (SIG/C/2) Manuscript signalbook 'Mouvemens, Ordres et Signaux généraux de l'armée du Roi, commandée par Monsieur Le Comte D'Orvilliers, Lieutenant Gen en 1779, Channel'. (Manuscript) (SIG/C/3) Printed signalbook with Mss additions and coloured flags containing chapters on tactics, instructions and general orders, day, night and fog signals. (Manuscript) (SIG/C/4) Printed signalbook as SIG/C/4 without Mss additions, 1795-1799. (Manuscript) (SIG/C/5) Printed signal book. 'Signaux generaux de jour, de nuit de de brume... a l'usage des Armees navales de la Republique Francais', 1799. (Manuscript) (SIG/C/6) Printed signal book entitled 'Signaux de la marine Francaise', unissued, 1801. (Manuscript) (SIG/C/7) Printed signal book, unissued, 'Signaux generaux de jour, de nuit et de brume...' 1801. (Manuscript) (SIG/C/8) Printed signal book, 'Signaux generaux de jour, de nuit et de brume...' 1801, contains keys to the design and colour of flags in use and list of squadrons, manuscript annotations. (Manuscript) (SIG/C/9) Printed handbook to the signal system established along the coast of France between Flushingand Bayonne (called semaphore). (Manuscript) (SIG/C/10) Printed signal book, 'Signaux st Dictionnaire telegraphiques a l'usage des Armees Navales', 1813. (Manuscript) (SIG/C/11) Dutch manuscript flag book, coloured, entitled 'Vlagge-Boeck van den Heer Paulus van der Dussen, capitein', 1687. (Manuscript) (SIG/C/12) Spanish printed signal book for the use of the fleet under the commandof Marques de la Victoria, 1765. (Manuscript) (SIG/C/13) Spanish printed signal book for the use of the fleet under the command of Don Luis de Cordova y Cordova, 1781. (Manuscript) (SIG/C/14) Spanish manuscript signal book ca.1800. (Manuscript) (SIG/C/15) Swedish printed signal book, with mss additions, entitled 'Sjo-Tactik for Armeens-Flotta', 1795. (Manuscript) (SIG/C/16) Swedish printed signal book, with additional instructions in manuscript 'Signal-Bref for Kongle Armeens Flotta', 1796. (Manuscript) (SIG/C/17) Turkish manuscript naval signal book, coloured, 1885. (Manuscript) (SIG/C/18) Printed signal book of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, coloured flags, entitled 'Sengali, instruzioni, ed evoluzioni per le squadre di sua maesta' il re delle due Sicilie', 1784. (Manuscript) (SIG/C/19) Printed signal book of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, uncoloured, ca.1784. (Manuscript) (SIG/C/20) Printed signal book of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, uncoloured, mss addition, entitled 'Signali instruzioni ed evoluzioni per la marina di guerre di sua maesta il re delle due Sicilie', 1816. (Manuscript) (SIG/C/21) Turkish manuscript naval signal book, coloured, inscribed 'A Monsr James Emerson de la part de son ami Milo-Antonio A. Miaoulis June 7me 1825'. (Manuscript) (SIG/C/22) Manuscript translation of French signal codes, ca.1807. (Manuscript) (SIG/C/23) Printed signal book "A set of signals presented to the Navy of the United States by John Barry, esq. Senior Officer. Norfolk, Virginia. (Manuscript) (SIG/C/24) Signals International code to be used in the new code 1931 printed two copies. (Manuscript) (SIG/C/25) A document containing a series of flag images used at sea by Principal nations of the world. (Manuscript) (SIG/C/26) A document in French on observation of signals from different countries. (Manuscript) (SIG/C/27)

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