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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.
Biographical material collected by Donald McLachlan relating to Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound
Pound's own papers were destroyed (by burning), shortly after World War Two, by his fellow admirals Cunningham and Geoffrey Blake.
British Naval Intelligence Papers, mainly of Donald McLachlan and Patrick Beesly.
The collection includes: McLachlan's papers for "Room 39"; Beesly's papers for "Very Special Intelligence" and for "Very Special Admiral"; and papers of Commander Lloyd Hirst, an intelligence officer.
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])'.
F.G. Simpkinson: Journals and papers
The collection is comprised of journals recording Simpkinson's experiences serving on different ships, containing a mixture of short dated entries and longer accounts with occasional dates. There is also a small set of personal papers, relating mainly to Simpkinson's naval career.
F.G. Simpkinson: Naval logs
F.G. Simpkinson: Naval logs
Financial Limitation, Technological Innovation and British Naval Policy, 1904-1910
Doctoral dissertation for the University of Chicago.
List of Royal Navy Ships
Numbered list of the names of the ships of the Royal Navy arranged in rough alphabetical order, 76 folios. The list includes Danish ships. On fo. 5v is a diagram of flags with a number against each. The list was probably intended for signalling purposes. Fos 1v-4v, 6v and 30v-75 are blank.
Logbook of HMS Hannibal
Logbook of HMS Hannibal covering its service off the Crimea, 83 folios. The volume is written in three hands, with occasional notes added by one of the officers.
Midshipman's Logs of D Calybut Downing
Naval logs and photographs
Papers of Admiral Sir Frederick Parham
Album from HMS Malaya and a recording of Parham's reminiscences.
Reminiscences of Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Gretton
Unpublished memoirs of Admiral Gretton, based on his occasional diaries, photo albums, naval papers and family histories, and particularly concentrating on the earlier and later years of Gretton's career.
Richard Bastard, naval lieutenant: Quarterly account book.
Royal Navy: Estimates
Estimates for vessels in harbour and for building and repair work on ships of war.
Royal Navy: Mediterranean Fleet Order Book
Copies of orders from Admirals James Dundas and Edmund Lyons as commanders, Mediterranean Fleet, and from Admiral Houston Stewart, second-in-command of the same, with copies of related despatches, resolutions and other communications, written in three hands, 92 folios.
Sir Andrew Snape Hamond and Sir Graham Eden Hamond: Correspondence and Papers
The Memoirs of Admiral Sir Manley Power
Annotated typescript covering Power's career, particularly on his work with Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Admiral Sir John Cunningham [Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean, from 1943] on the invasion of Sicily and Italy, his work with Admiral Sir Philip Vian and with Admiral 1st Lord Mountbatten. Includes further notes on Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham.
The Memoirs of Stanley J Sime
Naval memoirs, 1928-46
The Memoirs of Vice-Admiral Sir William Robson
"My naval life", with photocopies of photographs of Robson's family and the ships he served on
The Papers of 1st Lord Fisher of Kilverstone
The Papers of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Wester Wemyss
The papers include: material on the Dardanelles Campaign and Wemyss's service as Commander-in-Chief, East Indies and Egypt Station; literary drafts and other material for Wemyss's memoirs, his account of the Dardanelles Campaign and Lady Wemyss's biography; Wemyss's correspondence, including letters to his wife; Lady Wemyss's diaries and correspondence; photographs and press cuttings.
The Papers of Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope
The Papers of Admiral Sir (Arthur) Francis Turner
Churchill Archives Centre holds a small collection of Turner's naval papers. It includes material relating to his training and naval career and include some files on aspects of naval engineering and planned maintenance.
The Papers of Admiral Sir Bertram Home Ramsay
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- Wesselow, Francis Guillemard Simpkinson de, 1819-1906 (naval officer and artist) 3
- Carden, Sackville Hamilton, Sir, 1857 - 1930 (Knight, Admiral) 2
- Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian) 2
- Fisher, William Wordsworth, Sir, 1875 - 1937 (Knight, Admiral) 2
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- Churchill, Clementine Ogilvy Spencer (1885-1977, née Hozier, Baroness Spencer-Churchill of Chartwell) 1
- Clarke, William Francis, 1883 - 1961 (Intelligence Officer) 1
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- Crooke, Henry Ralph, Sir, 1875 - 1952 (Knight, Admiral) 1
- Cunningham, Andrew Brown, 1883 - 1963 (1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Admiral of the Fleet) 1
- Daily Telegraph 1
- Daniel, Charles Saumarez, Sir, 1894 - 1981 (Knight, Admiral) 1
- Davis, William Wellclose, Sir, 1901 - 1987 (Knight, Admiral) 1
- Dicken, Charles Gauntlett, 1854-1937 (Admiral) 1
- Dicken, Charles Vernon, 1881-1955 (colonial administrator) 1
- Dicken, Edward Bernard Cornish, 1888-1964 (Rear Admiral) 1
- Dicken, John Aldersey, 1896-1959 (naval officer) 1
- Downing, D Calybut, fl1906 - 1908 (midshipman) 1
- Drax, Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett, Sir (Ernle-Erle-, 1880-1967, Knight, Admiral) 1
- Dundas, Sir James Whitley Deans, 1785-1862 (knight, naval officer and politician) 1
- Edelsten, John Hereward, Sir, 1891 - 1966 (Knight, Vice-Admiral) 1
- Fawcett, Harold William, 1891 - 1964 (Commander Royal Navy) 1
- Fisher, John Arbuthnot, 1841 - 1920 (1st Baron Fisher of Kilverstone, Admiral of the Fleet) 1
- Gretton, Peter William, Sir, 1912 - 1992 (Knight, Vice-Admiral) 1
- Hallett, Cecil Charles Hughes, Sir (1898-1985, Knight, Vice-Admiral) 1
- Hamilton, Ian Standish Monteith, Sir, 1853 - 1947 (Knight, General) 1
- Hamond, Sir Andrew Snape, 1738-1828 (1st Baronet, Comptroller of the Navy Colonial and Governor) 1
- Hamond, Sir Graham Eden, 1779-1862 (2nd Baronet and Admiral) 1
- Hurd, Archibald, Sir, 1869 - 1959 (Knight and naval writer) 1
- Johnston, Clarence Dinsmore Howard (1903-1996, Rear-Admiral) 1
- Liberal Party 1
- Lyons, Edmund, 1790-1858 (1st Baron Lyons, naval officer and diplomatist) 1
- McLachlan, Donald Harvey, 1908 - 1971 (author and intelligence officer) 1
- North Atlantic Treaty Organisation 1
- North, Dudley Burton Napier, Sir, 1881 - 1961 (Knight, Admiral) 1
- Norton, Peter John Hill (1915-2004, Baron Hill-Norton, Admiral of the Fleet and Chief of Defence Staff) 1
- Oliver, Geoffrey Nigel, Sir, 1898 - 1980 (Knight, naval officer) 1
- Owen, John Hely, 1890 - 1970 (Naval Commander) 1
- Packer, Herbert Annesley, Sir, 1894 - 1962 (Knight, Admiral) 1
- Parham, Frederick Robertson, Sir, 1901 - 1991 (Knight, Admiral) 1
- Pound, Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers, Sir, 1877 - 1943 (Knight, Admiral of the Fleet) 1
- Power, Manley Laurence, Sir, 1904 - 1981 (Knight, Admiral) 1
- Pridham, Arthur Francis, Sir, 1886 - 1975 (Knight, Vice-Admiral) 1
- Ramsay, Bertram Home, Sir, 1883 - 1945 (Knight, Admiral) 1
- Richmond, Herbert William, Sir, 1871 - 1946 (Knight, Admiral) 1
- Robeck, John Michael de, Sir, 1862 - 1928 (1st Baronet, Admiral of the Fleet) 1
- Robson, William Geoffrey Arthur, Sir, 1902 - 1989 (Knight, Vice-Admiral) 1
- Sime, Stanley J, fl1928 - 1945 (Petty Officer) 1
- Stewart, Sir Houston, 1791-1875 (Knight, naval officer) 1
- Sumida, Jon Tetsuro (b c 1950, historian) 1
- Thompson, Ronald David, 1912 - 2009 1
- Turner, Arthur Francis, Sir, 1912 - 1991 (Knight, Admiral) 1
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