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Letter from Commodore Collier concerning a replacement chronometer for HMS Sybille, 1827-06-25

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/230: 41
Scope and Contents

Sent to John Croker.

Dates: 1827-06-25
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Letter from D.J. Thomson to John Wilson Croker, 1821-11-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/41: 158-159
Scope and Contents

Originally enclosing the essay at [RGO 14/41: 160-168] which he had received from Hanover.

Dates: 1821-11-02
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Letter from Edward Fairfax to John Wilson Croker, 1818-06-29

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/41: 120-121
Scope and Contents

Originally enclosing the proposal at [RGO 14/41: 122-123].

Dates: 1818-06-29
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from G. Lupton to John Wilson Croker, 1824-03-16

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/38: 427-428
Scope and Contents From the Item:

Two letters.

Dates: 1824-03-16
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from Henry Goulburn to John Wilson Croker, 1820-10-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/48: 40-41
Scope and Contents

Informing Croker that the Governor of the Cape had been instructed to allot a suitable piece of land for the purpose of erecting the Cape Observatory.

Dates: 1820-10-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from James Hughes to John Wilson Croker, 1813-07-27

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/39: 280-280a
Scope and Contents

Enquiring about a chart of longitude he had submitted.

Dates: 1813-07-27
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from John Couch to John Wilson Croker, 1818-05-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/44: 81-82
Scope and Contents

Concerning the publication of improved lunar tables.

Dates: 1818-05-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from John Croker to Dr Thomas Young, 1823-04-19

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/38: 420
Scope and Contents

Originally enclosing the letter from John George Hartley at [RGO 14/38: 418-419].

Dates: 1823-04-19
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from John Croker to Dr Thomas Young, 1823-02-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/23: 57-58
Scope and Contents From the Item:

Includes accounts of the rates of chronometers, reports on chronometer trials, and eleven related letters.

Dates: 1823-02-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from John Croker to Dr Thomas Young, 1823-02-25

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/23: 59-60a
Scope and Contents From the Item:

Includes accounts of the rates of chronometers, reports on chronometer trials, and eleven related letters.

Dates: 1823-02-25
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from John Croker to [Dr Thomas Young?], 1823-04-25

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/23: 75
Scope and Contents From the Item:

Includes accounts of the rates of chronometers, reports on chronometer trials, and eleven related letters.

Dates: 1823-04-25
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from John Croker to [Dr Thomas Young?], 1823-04-26

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/23: 76
Scope and Contents From the Item:

Includes accounts of the rates of chronometers, reports on chronometer trials, and eleven related letters.

Dates: 1823-04-26
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from John Croker to Dr Young, 1822-10-14

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/48: 111
Scope and Contents

Concerning a letter from Fearon Fallows at the Cape Observatory.

Dates: 1822-10-14
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from John Croker to John Pond concerning bills, 1822-02-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/229: 31
Scope and Contents From the File:

Correspondence between the Admiralty Office and the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, requesting the loan of chronometers for H M Ships. The principal recipient is John Pond; the principal correspondent is John Barrow. Other correspondents include John Croker, Richard S. Dundas, G. Smith, John Franklin and Sir William Edward Parry.

Dates: 1822-02-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from John Croker to John Pond concerning prize chronometers, 1828-07-22

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/230: 97
Scope and Contents From the File:

Admiralty papers sent to Pond concerning the fitting out of H M Ships with chronometers.

Dates: 1828-07-22
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from John McGhie to John Croker, 1813-10-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/38: 269-269a
Scope and Contents

Enclosing the letter and plan for finding longitude at [RGO 14/38: 270] and [RGO 14/38: 271-274].

Dates: 1813-10-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from John Roger Arnold reporting on the poor condition of chronometer No. 2164, 1828-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/233: 45r/1
Scope and Contents

Sent to Thomas Taylor .

Dates: 1828-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from John Tyrell Baylee to John Wilson Croker, 1824-01-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/55: 21-22
Scope and Contents

Concerning his method of finding longitude.

Dates: 1824-01-30
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Letter from John Wilson Croker to Dr Thomas Young, 1821-06-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/48: 49-50
Scope and Contents

Concerning bills for instruments.

Dates: 1821-06-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from John Wilson Croker to Dr Thomas Young, 1823-05-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/55: 41-41a
Scope and Contents

Concerning Kater's application to be Naval Hydrographer.

Dates: 1823-05-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from Rear Admiral Gage concerning a replacement chronometer for HMS Java, 1828-09-24

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/230: 76
Scope and Contents

Sent to John Croker.

Dates: 1828-09-24
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from Richard Burstal to John Wilson Croker, 1823-08-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/41: 72-73
Scope and Contents From the Item:

Four letters and a report on the merits of Burstal's tables.

Dates: 1823-08-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from Sir E.C.R. Owen of HMS Southampton requesting a replacement chronometer, 1829-08-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/230: 190-191
Scope and Contents

Sent to John Wilson Croker, and enclosing a return of the rate Arnold's chronometer no. 543 [RGO 5/230: 191].

Dates: 1829-08-03
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Letter from [Thomas Elrington] to John Wilson Croker, 1819-06-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/55: 59-59a
Scope and Contents From the Sub-file :

With an index of names.

Dates: 1819-06-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from Thomas Evans on an instrument for taking altitudes of the Sun without a horizon, 1811-12-15

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/44: 113-115
Scope and Contents

Sent to John Wilson Croker.

Dates: 1811-12-15
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Young, Thomas, 1773 - 1829 (physician, physicist and egyptologist) 13
Arnold, John Roger, 1769 - 1843 (watch and chronometer maker) 8
Arnold, John, c1736 - 1799 (watch and chronometer maker) 8
Cox, W C, fl1823 - 1831 (agent to John Arnold & Son, superintendent of chronometers at Devonport) 7
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Earnshaw, Thomas, 1749 - 1829 (maker of watches and chronometers) 4
HMS Blonde, frigate (1819-1895) 4
HMS Owen Glendower, frigate (1808-1884) 4
Inman, James, 1776 - 1859 (mathematician and writer on navigation) 4
Parkinson and Frodsham, chronometer, clock and watch makers 4
Royal Observatory, Greenwich 4
Fallows, Fearon, c1788 - 1831 (astronomer) 3
HMS Ariadne, post ship (1816-1841) 3
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HMS Shamrock, brig-sloop (1812-1867) 3
Hedgcock, Thomas, fl1812 - 1827 (Master, Royal Navy) 3
Hurd, Thomas, ?1747 - 1823 (Captain, hydrographer) 3
Mudge, Thomas, c1715 - 1794 (horologist) 3
Parry, William Edward, Sir, 1790 - 1855 (Knight, naval officer and Arctic explorer) 3
Pennington, Robert, c1780 - c1844 (chronometer maker) 3
Taylor, Thomas J, 1772 (assistant at Royal Observatory) 3
White, Martin, 1865 (Captain Royal Navy) 3
Baker, Edward, fl1822 - 1834 (chronometer maker) 2
Barraud and Sons, watch and chronometer makers 2
Bayfield, Henry Wolsey, 1795 - 1885 (Admiralty Surveyor) 2
Brockbank (& Atkins, chronometer makers) 2
Byron, George Anson, 1789 - 1868 (7th Baron Byron, Admiral) 2
Dollond, George, 1774 - 1852 (maker of optical and scientific instruments) 2
Fleeming, Charles Elphinstone, 1774 - 1840 (Admiral) 2
Forder, William, fl1810 (purser Royal Navy) 2
Gage, William Hall, Sir, 1777 - 1864 (Knight, Admiral) 2
Gardner, Henry, fl1805 - 1837 (silversmith) 2
HMS Blossom, sloop (1806-1848) 2
HMS Crocodile, sixth-rate ship (1825-1861) 2
HMS Curacoa, frigate (1809-1849) 2
HMS Hecla, bomb vessel (1815-1831) 2
HMS Java, frigate (1815-1862) 2
HMS Leven, post and survey ship (1813-1848) 2
HMS Phaeton, frigate (1782-1828) 2
HMS Sybille, frigate (1794-1833) 2
Kerigan, Thomas, fl1825 - 1826 (purser, Royal Navy) 2
Maclean, Archibald, 1832 (Captain Royal Navy) 2
McCabe, James, 1811 (chronometer and watch maker) 2
Montagu, John William, 1790 - 1882 (Captain Royal Navy) 2
Moorsom, Constantine Richard, 1792 - 1861 (Vice Admiral) 2
Owen, Edward Campbell Rich, Sir, 1771 - 1849 (Knight, Admiral) 2
Pond, John, 1767 - 1836 (astronomer) 2
Taylor, Thomas, fl1804 - 1806 (naval schoolmaster) 2
Tiarks, Johann Ludwig, 1789 - 1837 (astronomer and surveyor) 2
Young, Charles, fl1805 - 1831 (watch and chronometer maker) 2
Acland, Charles Dyke, fl1814 - 1826 (Captain Royal Navy) 1
Barraud, Paul Philip, 1752 - 1820 (watch and chronometer maker) 1
Barraud, William, fl1805 (watchmaker) 1
Barrett, George, 1752 - 1821 (Actuary) 1
Baylee, John Tyrrell, fl1807 - 1824 (Quaker schoolmaster and petitioner to the Board of Longitude) 1
Beechey, Frederick William, 1796 - 1856 (Rear-Admiral, geographer) 1
Bennett, Thomas, 1785 - 1870 (Captain Royal Navy) 1
Blackwood, Henry Martin, Sir, 1801 - 1851 (2nd Baronet, Captain Royal Navy) 1
Board of Longitude 1
Boteler, Thomas, 1829 (Officer Royal Navy) 1
Buchan, David, 1780 - ?1838 (Captain Royal Navy) 1
Burstal, Richard, fl1823 (Master Royal Navy) 1
Burt, Peter, fl1813 - 1818 (nautical instrument maker) 1
Carter, John, fl1825 - 1840 (chronometer maker) 1
Churchill, Henry John Spencer, 1797 (Captain Royal Navy) 1
Clement, Benjamin, 1835 (Captain Royal Navy) 1
Collier, Francis Augustus, Sir, 1785 - 1849 (Knight, Rear Admiral) 1
Cotterell, Thomas, fl1822 - 1835 (chronometer maker) 1
Couch, John, fl1818 - 1825 (naval officer) 1
Dent, Edward John, 1790 - 1853 (chronometer maker) 1
Dundas, Richard Saunders, Sir, 1802 - 1861 (Knight, Vice Admiral) 1
Elrington, Thomas, 1760 - 1835 (Bishop of Ferns) 1
Evans, Thomas, fl1811 (Lieutenant Royal Navy) 1
Fairfax, Edward, fl1818 (Royal Navy) 1
Falcon, Gordon, 1777 - 1854 (Captain Royal Navy) 1
Fisher, Peter, 1844 (Captain Royal Navy) 1
Fletcher, William, 1846 (Captain Royal Navy) 1
Foster, Henry, 1796 - 1831 (Commander Royal Navy, geophysicist) 1
Gall, Joseph, fl1824 (watchman at the Royal Observatory) 1
Garrard, William, fl1788 - 1828 (astronomer and schoolmaster) 1
Gilbert, Davies, 1767 - 1839 (MP, scientist and antiquary) 1
Gill, Thomas, fl1829 (Officer Royal Navy) 1
Gordon, Alexander, fl1829 (Captain Royal Navy) 1
Goulburn, Henry, 1784 - 1856 (Statesman) 1
Graham, Charles, Sir, 1792 - 1857 (Knight, Rear Admiral) 1
Granges, Peter Des, fl1784 - 1842 (watchmaker) 1
Griffinhoofe, Thomas Saville, 1830 (Commander Royal Navy) 1
Grimaldi & Johnson, watch and chronometer makers 1
Guy ((fl 1827-1828) chronometer maker) 1
HMS Albion, ship of the line (1802-1836) 1
HMS Atholl, frigate (1820-1863) 1
HMS Beagle, brig-sloop (1820-1870) 1
HMS Brisk, brig-sloop (1819-1843) 1
HMS Britomart, brig-sloop (1820-1843) 1
HMS Briton, frigate (1812-1860) 1
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