Includes yard accounts (1698), list of ships and vessels in R.N.(1546) and details of ships (1774).

1. "A Supplement to the Book in His Majesty's possession which containeth A Survey of all His Majesty's Dockyards with the Building and Therein taken in the year 1698." Gives accounts of the yards: Portsmouth, Plymouth, Chatham, Deptford, Woolwich and Sheerness.

2. "An abstract of the second roll containing the Galliases taken from the original resting in the King's Library at St. James' and communicated thence to me by my worthy friend Henry Thynne, Esq., Library Keeper there, 1690."

3. An alphabetical list of every ship and vessels of the Royal Navy of England, 1546 (from the Anthony Anthony Roll).

4. A general abstract of the furniture and equipage of the ships of the first roll, showing the total for each ship.

5. "A list of His Majesty's Royal Navy on the 31st Day of August 1774 shewing each ships dimensions, burthen in tons, compliments of men, number of guns when built, where built and by whose draughts constructed."

Object Details

ID: LAD/11/1-32
Type: Manuscript
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Taylor, George
Date made: 1689-1774; 1831
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: 1 volume
Parts: The Dockyards of England and the West Indies. (Manuscript)