Royal Navy
Found in 117 Collections and/or Records:
Admiral Dicken: Memoirs and papers
The principal part of the collection is comprised of Dicken's detailed hand-written memoirs, accompanied by related documents and photographs. The remaining items are a printed volume on the cruise of the Flying Squadron, 1869-1870, in which Dicken participated; a journal from his service on H.M.S. 'Alexandra' in the Mediterranean, 1883-1884; and assorted papers collected for the memoirs.
Annual estimates of expenditure, 1886 - 1900
Annual estimates of expenditure, 1900 - 1913
Civil List Accounts
Civil List accounts, including Customs and Excise, Navy and miscellaneous accounts, 27 December 1706 - 10 January 1798. On labels inside the covers of MSS.Add.5219-5223: 'From the Treasury Chambers Whitehall. Removed to the Public Record Office (W.L[ascelles])'.
Confirmed minutes, 1780 - 1801
Copy of a letter concerning the date on which Thomas Taylor and William Richardson commenced employment as second assistants at the Royal Observatory, 1824-04-02
Copies of outgoing correspondence from Astronomer Royal, John Pond, and his assistant, Thomas Taylor, at the Royal Observatory. Some of the letters are addressed to chronometer makers. Note that correspondence to more than one person often appears on the same page.
Correspondence about Estimates, 1861 - 1870
Correspondence about Estimates, 1870 - 1876
Correspondence of Airy, Christie and others, 1876 - 1890
Correspondence on Admiralty reports, 1959 - 1963
Correspondence regarding the supply of Admiralty reports to the Royal Greenwich Observatory, with supply notes from the Royal Navy Scientific Service, Admiralty, forwarding reports (the reports are not included), and a list of surplus publications in the A.C.S.I.L. Library, Admiralty.
Correspondence on astrographic equatorials, 1887 - 1891
Correspondence on chronometer trials, 1885 - 1894
Correspondence on chronometer trials, 1894 - 1899
Correspondence on chronometer trials, 1899 - 1904
Correspondence on chronometer trials, 1904 - 1909
Correspondence on chronometers, 1900 - 1912
Correspondence on chronometers, 1901 - 1940
Correspondence on chronometers, 1884 - 1901
Correspondence on chronometers, 1894 - 1899
Correspondence on chronometers, 1947 - 1963
Correspondence on damage by enemy action, 1940 - 1941
Correspondence with the Admiralty, the Hydrographer of the Navy and Royal Victoria Yard, Deptford, regarding damage caused to the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, by enemy action.
Correspondence on estimates, 1965 - 1969
Correspondence on estimates and expenditure, 1954 - 1956
Correspondence on estimates and expenditure, 1955 - 1960
Correspondence on general costs and plans, 1962 - 1963
Correspondence with the Chief Surveyor of Lands, Admiralty; Hydrographer of the Navy; Senior Surveyor of Lands and Superintendent of Navy Works, S.E. England Navy Works District, Chatham; and others, with memoranda and other papers, concerning general plans and costs relating to the Royal Greenwich Observatory, including a site plan of the Observatory showing proposed speed limit signs, November 1962.
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