Warwickshire County Record Office

papers of Greville of Warwick Castle, including Box 393 (1)(xx, xxii) two letters about the Navy Board, immoral sailors and Milford Haven, 1792, n.d. (eighteenth century);

Box es 457 to  M1018-22 under separate entries

incomplete plans of South America, including the Leeward and Antilles Islands, c.1750; chart of east coast of England from the Humber to Great Yarmouth, printed in London, 1791; chart of the Atlantic published by order of the minister for the service of French shipping, 1786; chart of the Gulf of Gascony, c.1792; part of chart of the Atlantic, eighteenth century

five volumes of the accounts of Sir Fulke Greville as Treasurer of Marine Causes, 1599-1603, including accounts for Chatham, Deptford, Woolwich and Portsmouth

volume entitled `Orders for the Navy' being a proposed administration of the navy, 1600

account of goods and merchandise taken in a carrick St Valentine of Lisbon by Sir Richard Leveson, & sold & delivered from Leaden Hall, London, by the Commissioners, November 1602 - January 1603, luxury goods and buyers are given; account of expenses at Plymouth

papers belonging to Fetherston-Dilke of Maxstoke Castle, including

Bundle 16, 3, (p.22), papers of Capt. Thomas Dilke, mainly referring to his naval career, c.1816-37, including receipts for bullion carried in the eastern Mediterranean in his sloop

(p.27), letter of Thomas Randoll to John Fetherstone about son Stephen's sea voyage, 1645; 7, bill for goods bought from Patrick Bamford for Stephen Fetherston before embarking, including tobacco to give to seamen, 1645; 8, letter of Richard Terrie from Amsterdam regarding attack on seamen by the Spanish at Hispaniola, West Indies, 1648

(p.35), letter of Stephen Fetherston to his father John regarding voyage to Barbados, 4 September 1645; 54 (p.38), assessment of Ship Money for Packwood parish, 16 September 1640

(p.51), letters of T. Dilke onboard HMS Asia to brother William regarding movement of ships near Navarino and account of battle, 8 October & 8 November 1827

(p.68), 8 appointments of Capt. Thomas Dilke to various ships, 1819-52; 2 (p.85), card depicting the north and south lines of mooring of the Grand Fleet, June 1791, with sketches of named British ships, and the names of the captains

(p.92), accounts, Admiralty orders, commissions and other naval papers of Capt. Thomas Dilke, including lists of ships in the Turkish, French and English fleets before and after the battle of Navarino, 1828 & sailing instructions for going into the Bay of Fundy to inquire into alleged infringements of a Portuguese schooner carrying 417 slaves, 1837

(p.104), William, Duke of York, from the Admiralty to a lady, declining the present of a collection of insects offered by her husband, 13 June 1828; 1 (pp.108-9), diary of Capt. Charles Dilkes, regarding his service off Spain and in the West Indies, 1812-15

Civil War letters of the Earl of Denbigh, including volume one, 22, bill of lading of the Elizabeth and Dorckus, 1643;

letter from Joseph Hopkinson, at Surat, to Sir William Fylden, at Persia, regarding news of ships in the East Indies, including Bantam and the islands of St Lawrence, 7 February 1631/2;

letter of the Countess of Buckingham to her grandson the 2nd earl of Denbigh with reference to his father's voyage as Ambassador to the Moguls, 1631;

news of English shipping and `pirates' of Algiers, at Livorno, 1638;

correspondence including 69, letter to Charles I relating the commercial negotiations between the French and Italians with Algeria and Tunisia regarding the export and import of goods, in Italian, 72, petition to the Doge of Venice for the release of Giuseppe Giannocelli from the galleys, c.1630;

letter books of the 6th Earl of Denbigh, including 32, from Thomas Pye, Vice-Admiral, Barbados, 18 December 1766, 34, letter to Sir Edward Hawke, Lord of the Admiralty, 18 April 1767; 43, from John Cowater, Captain of the Marines at Hampton Court, 14 July 1767, regarding Admiral Pye and the West Indies, 115, letters to Admiral Feidling, 22 & 26 January 1768, n.d. & from Sir Edward Hawke, 23 January 1768, 144, from Thomas Pye, commanding H.M. Squadron at the Leeward Islands, 9 March 1768, 146, from Lieut. William Feilding at Plymouth barracks regarding voyage on HM Frigate Jason to the West Indies, 10 May 1768, 149, from Lieut. Thomas Underwood onboard the Vulture at Antigua, 8 April 1786, 166, letter of Thomas Pye, 12 August 1768, 200, to Capt. Charles Jackson of the Marines, 26 April 1769, 214, to Sir Edward Hawke, 24 June 1769, 224, from and to Thomas Pye, 10 & 14 August 1769, 256-7, to and from the Earl of Hillsborough, 23 June & 11 July 1770 regarding American news and sending Halifax's fleet to Boston, 261, from Thomas Pye, 1 September 1770, 264-5, regarding impressment of men for the fleet to north America, September 1770, 266, to and from Philip Stephens, 29 September & 6 October 1770; 272, of William Burlton with reference to the dispute between Britain and Spain over the Falkland Islands, 24 November 1770; 281, to the Earl of Rochford regarding the sailing of Admiral Harland's fleet, 17 March 1771; 298, from Revd Thomas Fountaine, with reference to the Spanish prohibition of British ships of war in their ports, 24 August 1771; start page 236

`A Scots Declaration relating to the late execution of Capt. [Thomas] Green', 1707

reference to trial of John Byng, Admiral, 1757

papers regarding coastal defences, 1797

Bishop of Llandaff's thoughts on the French invasion, post 1798

bundle of papers regarding the French invasion scare, 1803

letter from W. Kerry regarding the large number of intended emigrants from county Kerry to the United States, c.1882

verses addressed to Ellen Burgess on her departure for Australia, 1848; diary of voyage from Port Adelaide to London, March - June 1882; F. Bostock's album of pressed specimens of seaweeds, sent from Australia, 1882

copy letter from Whitehall regarding John Fletcher, transported to New South Wales in 1819 for 14 years

copy of printed notice to young women desirous of bettering their condition by an emigration to New South Wales, issued by the Emigration Committee, 1833

journal of Beaumont Fetherstone of tour to Australasia, 1889-94

reference in Bedworth parish register to couple's departure for Queensland, Australia, 1862

letter of Revd Arthur George Sewallis Shirley, vicar of Stinsford, Dorset, reference to young man learning sheep farming in Dorset before emigrating to Australia, 10 May 1839

letters from James Backhouse, a Quaker missionary enroute to & during stay in New South Wales, describing fellow companions on voyage, 1831, 1835

letter to newspaper written from Winter Harbour, by member of expedition to north of Canada, c.1819

reference to and report of voyage by Capt. C.J. Phipps in 1773

rights of Newfoundland fishing, c.1852-c.1860

track of fish protecting fisheries, Bay of Fundy, 1853

advice `to a painter for drawing the history of our naval actions... in answer to Mr Waller', Breda, 1667, MS verse

maps of property in Prince Edward Island, 1768-1844

naval charts, c.1772-c.1858

volume of naval charts, 1792-3

hydrographic chart showing fleet, 1797

misc. sketches and plans with small notebook including sketch of the Royal William, eighteenth century

sketch book, including of Dieppe and Rouen, early nineteenth century

list of charts owned by Sir George F. Seymour, c.1830

chart to and from north America, 1840 and of HMS Collingwood in South Seas, 1844-8

list of plans and charts in papers of North American and West Indian naval station, c.1850

prospect of Auckland from the sea, c.1850

chart of Bermuda, 1852

plan of proposed submarine telegraph cable between Ireland and Newfoundland, 1856

admiralty charts of Vancouver Island, 1865 and of Oyster & Telegraph Harbours, 1865

letters of Louisa Shirley at Kilmarton, including references to damage to pier by hurricane, mid nineteenth-century

letters of George Lucy regarding bathing at Grumo near Naples, 10 July & 13 December 1757

letters of Revd James Shirley, rector of Frettenham, Norfolk, 1841-69, including 6-7, references to holidays at Great Yarmouth and Cromer, including Sunday's `vast rush of people from Norwich' to Yarmouth, mention of the pier, 1856; 18, including reference to 800 visitors from East London arriving by steam boat to Great Yarmouth each week and their alleged living on the beach, September 1869

(microfilm of) diary of Sir Fulwar Skipworth, 1628-67, including account of a voyage from Fowey to Barbadoes, 1645

travel journal, possibly of Lady Sophia Newdigate, of a tour through southern England, c.1748, including a visit to Portsmouth and account of a trip onboard the Charming Sally to Cowes

travel diaries and journals of the Newdigate family, notably Sir Roger Newdigate's diaries (A582-637) for the years 1751-1806.

journal of a journey from Gibraltar to Morocco, c.1777

journal of a visit to China by Capt. MacIntosh of the Indostan, an East India ship, 1793

letters from Emperor Woodford including a long description of Madeira, 1809

correspondence and other papers of Sir Alexander George Woodford including journal of a voyage to Gibraltar, 1809 and a letter to his wife on the voyage to Corfu, November - December 1827

notebook containing a diary written by Mary Elizabeth Williams of Bodelwyddan, Flintshire, with visits to Anglesey, 1816

diary of Francis Newdigate, July - August including a trip to Boulogne and Dieppe in the Cutter Vigilant, 1835

diary of Francis Newdigate, containing a tour from London to Dover, Ostend, Bruges, Dunkirk, Calais and Blackheath, October - November 1837

journal of the future 8th earl whilst on a voyage from Spain to Italy, 1838-9

diary of Francis Newdigate, including visits to Dover and Portsmouth, with an account of a voyage onboard the Vigilant from London to Southampton and Portsmouth, April - September 1839

accounts and notes of visits to places in the Pacific Station and on the east coast of South America, 1845-8

diaries of Sir Lynedock Gardiner regarding voyage to Guinea, 1854-

notebook of copies of 25 letters of Henry Newdigate to his father, from leaving Portsmouth to arrival in India, 1857-8

diary of George Whitlock's voyage from London to New Zealand, 1869

diary of a trip to Norway by Cecilia, Countess of Denbigh, including an account of her son's supposed drowning, 1897

diary of a trip to Malta and Italy by Cecilia, Countess of Denbigh, 1904

typescript account, possibly by Ginger Tufnell, onboard HAMS Tiger of a battle when the Nottingham and the Falmouth were sunk, August 1916

programme of Arthur Sutcliffe's entertainers at Llandudno, 1919

diary of a cruise to Iceland and Norway, 1936, with photographs

diary of the Hon. Hugh Feilding onboard ship, October - December, n.d.

diary of Revd & Hon. Edward Seymour-Conway of his tour in Scotland, ??n.d.

assignment of debts of Thomas Brittain, boatman, prisoner in Warwick gaol, 1798

misc. papers, including notes on prisoners sent by Q.S. to army & navy, navy acts, 1773-1837

observations on HMS Columbine, 1827

three letters from Will Long, royal marine onboard HMS Bedford at Sheerness, Scheldt & Spithead, 1814

volume including letter to Henry Buckley from his son onboard HMS Polyphemus, Yarmouth Roads, 1801

letter from sailor on Warren Hastings, East Indiaman, off Gravesend, 1873

reference to fleet, George Byng, Visct Torrington, 1706

marriage settlement of the daughter of Sir Hyde Parker, 18??

papers of Dartmouth Royal Naval College, 1862-71, including references to HMS Brittania and the problems of disease among the cadets, boy's progress reports

logbooks, 1773-1801, 1800-14

letter of George Lucy to Mrs Phillipa Hayes, with reference to the celebrating the victory over the French fleet off Cape Finistere, 16 May 1747

diary of war at sea, correspondence and list of ships at war, 1755-7

letter from William Dobson to George Lucy, including reference to the capture of Martinique, 9 March 1762

correspondence and papers relating to a proposed expedition against the Pacific coast of Spanish America to have been led by Lord Hugh Seymour, includes papers about a similar expedition of 1780, 1779-96

letter from William Dobson to the Revd John Hammond, rector of Hampton Lucy, including reference to naval victory over Dutch fleet on Dogger bank, 23 August 1781

misc. papers on naval affairs, 1795-1848

notebook of orders, dispatches, lists of Admiralty ships, naval preparedness and state of ships, 1755-7

rough plan of fleet before landing at Alma, 1854, & other papers of Major-General G.W. Waller, 1856-91

papers, including correspondence, of Fortescue of Cookshill, Captain R.N., 1772-1808

naval papers of Admiral Thomas Shirley, 1777-91

copy of letter from Nelson to his lady, 1798

reference to Admiral Lord Nelson in will of William Suckling, esq., of St Pancras, Middlesex, 1799

letter from Admiral Lord Nelson, 1801

letter book of Admiral Sir George Berkeley, addressed to naval and military officers, 1806-12

correspondence of Admiral Sir James Scott, Leamington, 1849-50

journal of C.J.T. Dormer, starting on board HMS Surprise, 1887-9

printed account of mutiny of the Hermione, 1797 & evidence &c that proposed on the Renommee, 1798, etc.; depositions, crew lists on Hermione; collection of papers regarding mutiny at Spithead, including petition, 1797; account of mutinous behaivour on HMS Hero at Portland, 1859

naval records of Lord High Admiral Seymour, 1773-1802

naval records of Sir George F. Seymour, c.1808-65

naval correspondence of Henry G. Seymour, 1829-60

naval correspondence of the Seymour family, 1800-2, 1821-33, 1857-64, 1795-9, 1839-68, 1827-30

proclamation regarding distribution of naval prizes, 1846

letter concerning rewards for the apprehension of deserters, 1738

papers regarding raising money for navy, 1795-7; recruitment papers: Orders in Council regarding collecting straggling seamen, etc., 1776-87

letter concerning rewards for the apprehension of deserters, 1738

papers regarding raising money for navy, 1795-7; recruitment papers: Orders in Council regarding collecting straggling seamen, etc., 1776-87

Royal Commission to Fleetwood Watkins to be Captain of Marines, 1 January 1706/7

bundle of naval commissions of James Robertson, comprising to the Crescent as Second Lieutenant, 1762; to the Spy, as Commander, 1768; to the Dispatch, as Commander, 1771; to the Hound, as Commander, 1776; to the Amphitrite, as Commander, 1809

advice of Lord St Vincent on a career in the navy, 1777, 1780

17th century, including `Judge Crook's Argument on Shipmoney etc.' (1638)

letter of George Lucy regarding the capture of a ship by an Algerian ship, 3 October 1757

letter of Arthur Gregory to George Lucy with reference to the French privateers off the Kent coast, 4 July 1779

correspondence on harbour master at Surinam, 1799-1805

commission & letter respecting quarantine of vessels, South Carolina, 1773

shipping licence from Le Havre, 1812

letter from Liverpool containing shipping news, 1820

memorandum regarding William Bishop's boatman's encroachment on John Philip's land, 1834

memorandum respecting business partnership of R.C., R.H. & S. Soutter, 1839, 1862, sailmakers and dealers in ships' stores, accounts, etc., 1839

press reports of Henry Warriner's steam boat The Firefly, 1841

papers relating to shipping in Valparaiso & Puerto Lemarr, Chile, 1844

assignment by a common carrier of Stourport of his stock-in-trade: named Severn trows and five canal boats, 1850

printed directors' reports and balance sheets of the Anglo-Ionian Steam Navigation Company Ltd, 1863-4

timetables & guide book to the Glasgow, Belfast & Bristol Channel Steamers, 1894

commission to mayor of Poole, Dorset, to value & release under bond the Catherine, 1595 [withdrawn]

valuation of contents of ship, including rigging, anchors, etc., 1821

printed petition of shipowners of Newcastle to George Lucy, MP, April 1823

bills of sales of 2 ships to S. Flavel, 1889

patent granted to Charles E. Amos for invention of apparatus for supporting ships during repair, 1858

registers (and related papers) of boats, barges and other vessels used in navigable rivers, etc., 1795-6, n.d.

bill of lading of the Sampson of Bristol by Henry Hazard, master, for George Willys of Fenny Compton, to Boston, Massachusetts, to be delivered to Captain C[?oll]ins, 5 May 1641

letter from Messrs Hart and Porter in Naples to George Lucy, concerning the shipping of `two pictures & Vesuvius Table' on the Neapolitan ship the Virgine de Carmine, 24 October 1758

business papers of George Philips & Co., comprising letter books, journals, ledgers, banker's book, bill books and receipt book, 1801-24, concerned with trade to the Continent and north America, including references to marine insurance

report and correspondence on presentation of an early launch engine to the Science Museum Catalogue of Science Museum sections on marine engines and boilers referring to launch engine above, 1915, 1916, 1926

ship's galley ranges: price list from J. Gould & Son, ironmongers of Devonport, late nineteenth century

withdrawal of merchant shipping bill, 1875

letters on blockade of Alexandria, 1882

photostat of letter from the Simonds off Georgia, 1736

letters describing a hurricane, Jamaica, 1815