IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0064 MUR
Held at: National Maritime Museum
Title: Murray, Charles Wadsworth, Sub-Lieutenant (1894-1945)
Date(s): [1801-1820]
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1 1/2ft; 46cm
Name of creator(s): Murray | Charles Wadsworth | 1894-1945 | Sub-Lieutenant
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Murray served as Base Intelligence Officer in the Iolaire, Stornoway, from 1914 to 1918, when he was given the rank of temporary sub-lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Charles Wadsworth Murray, including notebooks dealing with his time at Stornoway and contain information about German submarine warfare. There are lists of ships lost and of those that engaged enemy submarines and accounts of the loss or surrender of submarines. There are also three manuscripts unrelated to the main collection, consisting of an order book of Captain Richard Grindall, 1801 to 1805; a Navy Prize Office register, 1803 to 1820, and a log of the REVENGE, Captain Sir John Gore, Mediterranean, 1812 to 1813.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Please contact the Archive for further information.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Please contact the Archive for further information.
Finding aids:
Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The papers were presented by Mrs Elizabeth Murray, Murray's widow, in 1956.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Edited by Sarah Drewery, Sep 2011.
Date(s) of descriptions: 2010-08-26