Reference | Detail | Dates | Archive | Keywords |
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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 |