Exeter Local Maritime Archives Project

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71/7/35 printed poster giving rates of towage per Exeter Corporation steam tug 'Queen of the Exe', section torn away, 1906. 1906 to None Devon Record Office None
71/7/38

printed copy of 'Sike's Table of the Concentrated Strengths of Spirits" for the estimation of spirits duties, 3rd edn., undated

None to None Devon Record Office alcohol, tax
71/7/45a-b

copies of Consolidated Tables of Duties for Lights, Buoys, and Beacons in Great Britain and Ireland, first and second editions, 1855 and 1864.

1855 to 1864 Devon Record Office signals
71/7/48

printed table regarding abatement of duties on overseas and coasting vessels, 1861.

1861 to None Devon Record Office tax
71/7/51

loose pages (317-8, 321-352, 445-6) of an unidentifiable book on fencing, sailing, etc., nineteenth century.

1800 to 1900 Devon Record Office None
997 Z contains a variety of broadsheet ballads, pertaining to fishing, the navy, Admiral Rodney, and the American War, eighteenth century. 1700 to 1800 Devon Record Office satire, songs
146B/add Z1

agreement entered into by shipwrights at Topsham not to work for more than a specified number of hours and for no less than 2/6 a day with promise to boycott shipyards of any master shipwrights who dismissed those taking part, 1766.

1766 to None Devon Record Office labour relations, terms of employment, wages
1392M/L1596/10

correspondence, copy of Privy Council to presumably Earl of Bath on the defence of Plymouth, 1596.

1596 to None Devon Record Office None
1392M/L1596/15 correspondence, Privy Council to Seymour on Plymouth Garrison, 1596. 1596 to None Devon Record Office defence, military
1392M/L1599/1-45 correspondence on threats of invasion, defence of Plymouth and Dartmouth, Spanish fleet and shipping, victualling, fleet movements, military matters, many are copies,1599. 1599 to None Devon Record Office defence, threat from Spain
1392M/L1600/3 correspondence, J. Gilbert to Earl of Bath on French ships, copy, 1600. 1600 to None Devon Record Office None
1499M/4/3 contains list of H.M. ships in squadrons, April 1665; writ for collecting ship money in Devon, 1637. 1637 to 1665 Devon Record Office finance
DQS 70/1 register of barges on Exeter, Stover, and Hackney canals and quotas of men to be raised for the navy, 1795 1795 to None Devon Record Office recruitment
DQS 71

enrollment of men for the navy ("north division”), 1795

1795 to None Devon Record Office recruitment
DQS 128 contains lists of sailors wounded and maimed in action against the Dutch, ca. 1675; also includes sailors wounded by pirates, seventeenth century. 1675 to None Devon Record Office Anglo-Dutch wars, piracy, casualties
1392M/20/4

 bundle of pamphlets and speeches, "Naval power of England” by Childers, 1874; “Steam Navy” by Hoseason, 1853; “Laws of the Helm” by Paynter, 1867; “Reflections of the Navy”, translated from the French original by Fouillony, c.1861; “State of Our Navy” - Sutherland, 1861; “A Standing Navy” – M'Neill, 1861; Navy department report – Captain Dahlgren, 1862; “Manning the Navy”, 1862; Opinion of press on Turret – Capt. Cole, 1866; “Sea-going, turret ships” – Capt. Cole, 1866; “The revolving turret” – Capt. Cole, 1865; “Turret-system” – Capt. Cole, 1866; “English versus American cupola Turrets” – Capt. Cole et. al., 1864; “Iron Clad Ships”, 1864; “Ship Rolling” – William Froude, 1873; “Unarmoured ships” – Brassey, 1867; “Naval policy” – Childers, 1867; “Clare versus Queen” – Iron-clad ships by Clare, 1863; pages from essays on manning of the navy and naval expenditure – F. W. G., c. 1866.

1853 to 1874 Devon Record Office commentary on navy, viewpoints
1392M/L1596/28 correspondence, copy of Privy Council to Drake, Godolphin, etc., on Pilchard trade protection, 1596. 1596 to None Devon Record Office None
1392M/L1603/1

correspondence, Queen to Counselors on protection of shipping, copy, 1603.

1603 to None Devon Record Office None
1392M/L1607/1-3 correspondence relating to pirates off Cornish coast and the apprehension of pirates, copies, 1607. 1607 to None Devon Record Office piracy
1392M/L1643/26 correspondence, J. Pennington to Edward Seymour, on ships and prizes, 1643. 1643 to None Devon Record Office Royalist navy, English civil war