London Marathon this Sunday

Cutty Sark will be closed on Sunday 27 April until 2pm due to the London Marathon. All other sites are open to visitors and spectators as normal, but please check road closures before you travel and allow extra time as the area will be busy. Parking at the National Maritime Museum is unavailable all day.

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The Jacob Birnbaum Titanic Collection

Letter from the White Star Line, Hebrew calendar entry, photographs and newspaper clippings relating to the death of Jacob Birnbaum, a passenger on the TITANIC in 1912.

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ID:	HSR/Z/39
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	1912
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	1 folder, 6 pieces
Parts:	Records And Descriptions relating to Historical Events (Manuscript) Battle of Trafalgar: including a piece of wood from the deck of HMS VICTORY and a ticket of admission to Nelson's funeral. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/1) Benin Expedition: press cuttings and various letters. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/2) Raid on Zeebrugge, 22-23 Apr 1918: chart, watercolours and press cuttings of Capt Nevil Pritchard. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/3) British military authority banknote and five Japanese banknotes for use in occupied Indonesia, 1939-1945. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/4) Mark Robinson: documents issued by and to, consisting of flag signals, lantern signal, secret rendezvous, orders of battle and sailing instructions and special signals. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/5) Account of the Battle of Camperdown by Joseph Brodie, 11 Oct 1797. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/6) Sir Edward Littleton: various correspondence. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/7) J.M. Matria, Consul-General at Tangier: various letters. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/8) Naval Volunteer Home Defence Association: minutes, leaflets and letters relating to the dissolution of the Association. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/9) Wreck of the ROYAL GEORGE and EDGAR: sketches of operation for raising by Col Sir C. Pasley, 1839-40. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/10) Various documents including a report on surveying of the Persian Gulf by George H. Bruck, surveyor to the H.E.I.C. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/11) Documents relating to the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/12) Documents relating to the Rochefort Expedition, 1757. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/13) Mrs Maud Berridge: various papers and photographs. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/14) Captain Hugh Campbell: Captain of the Royal Naval College, of HMS UNDAUNTED, and of HMS BELLEROPHON: various papers. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/15) Horatio Nelson: documents of authenticity of Nelson relics presented to Greenwich Hospital, 1845-46; documents regarding probate of Nelson's last codicil, 1806. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/16) Documents relating to Horatio Nelson (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/17) Horatio Nelson: correspondence regarding Nelson's dress sword and newspaper cuttings containing other references to Nelson relics, 1844-56. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/18) Sir Edward Inglefield, Rear-Adm: correspondence relating to the proposed memorial on the Isle of Wight to Admiral Earl Jellicoe; correspondence of Commander Aubrey F. Inglefield on the same subject. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/19) Captain John Pilford: various documents. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/20) Captain James Cranstoun: various documents. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/21) Captain William Lechmere: collection of orders, signals, instructions and letters, some signed 'Nelson and Bronte'. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/22) Harrison's chronometers: folder containing early 20th century working drawings of Harrison's No. 3 timekeeper; and diagrams of escape wheels of H2 and H3 by RT Gould, 1931-37. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/23) Various documents including manuscript copy of Departmental Court of Enquiry held at Upnor Castle into the fire in the Shifting Room. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/24) Miscellaneous collection of papers. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/25) Collection of miscellaneous naval documents. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/26) Papers of G.R. Askwith relating to the controversy over the America's Cup Races of 1894-95 (DEFENDER against VALKYRIE) (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/27) Collection of miscellaneous naval documents, 1613-1824 relating to various people. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/28) Correspondence relating to the role of the ERZHERZOG FRANZ FERDINAND (1899) in taking Russian refugees from Basra to Vladivostok in 1921. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/29) Papers of Mrs Marion Woolcott (nee Wright), 1885-1965, TITANIC survivor (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/30) Papers relating to Richard Bell and the model of KOPENHAVN. (letter) (HSR/Z/31) Certificates and character references belonging to Albert Norris, Engineer (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/32) Letters relating to the Nore Mutiny of 1797, including a letter from Richard Parker, leader of the Mutineers (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/33) Account of a hurricane experienced by Captain Charles Dudley Parker, HMS THISBE. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/34) Records relating to Edmond Halley's visit to Saint Helena in 1677-1678 (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/35) Small collection of personal papers of Vice Admiral Sir James M. Pipon KBE, CB (1882-1971) (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/36) Small collection of items relating to Henry Downes and HMS BLACK JOKE (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/37) Papers of Lieutenant Cyril Corbet relating to the transit of Venus expedition, 1874. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/38) The Jacob Birnbaum Titanic Collection (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/39) Gulliver, Donald James (Nurse), 1938-1991. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/40) White, Walter (1841-1917), Petty Officer, HMS SCOUT, East Indies, China and Indian Mutiny (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/41) Burning of Smyrna, September 1922. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/42) Battle of Sevastopol, 17 October 1859. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/43) Six mementos relating to Sir George Biddell Airy, Astronomer Royal, 1835-1881 (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/44/1-6) Letter from Captain Henry Kellett to Sir John Barrow about his voyage on HMS RESOLUTE and volume of the Zoology of the Voyage of HMS HERALD. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/45) Press cuttings and typescript article on the loss of the BRITANNIA, and related photographs, 1941. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/46) McClure Arctic Expedition. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/47) Papers relating to David Lawson, master of SS FRESHFIELD which was lost at sea in 1905 (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/49) Document listing reasons not to have a governor in Newfoundland and the destruction of fishing trade. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/50) Index book of Masters including those employed by the East India Company and an index book of East India Company ships. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/51) Plan of occupation and administration for Naval Arsenal Kiel, 1945 and post-war. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/52) Papers written by Robert Falcon Scott, relating to the DISCOVERY, 1902-1904, and photocopies of related documents (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/53) List of Danish ships captured, a letter from British Prisoner of War and a Masonic Certificate (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/54) Official despatches (in a volume) and plans of the Battle of Jutland (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/55) Nine photographs by Edward Leicester Atkinson of Scott Antarctic expedition, 1902 and a Zoology book signed by Edward Leicester Atkinson (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/56) Papers relating to the case of Captain Stanley Lord (1878-1962) of the SS CALIFORNIAN and its involvement in the TITANIC disaster in 1912. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/57) Collision between HMS GLADIATOR and US Mail steamer ST PAUL off the Isle of Wight, 25 April 1908. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/58) William Thomas Kerley, Assistant Steward, RMS TITANIC letter and other personal items. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/59) Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander William Astle Ryan, 1905-1942. (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/60) Letters and report from Ronald Peers Williams describing the internment and later scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet (Manuscript) (HSR/Z/62)

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