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National Maritime Museum

Royal Naval: Lists of Ships


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0064 LRN

Held at: National Maritime Museum

Title: Royal Naval: Lists of Ships

Date(s): 1633-1900

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 4 1/2ft: 137cm

Name of creator(s): Royal Navy

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

This class consists of thirty-four volumes of contemporary lists of naval ships, 1633, 1655, 1664 and 1670 to 1900. Many were compiled officially and usually have the same format, listing ships by rate, details of dimensions, numbers of guns, where built and the name of the designer. A few have additional notes on establishments of stores and men and other regulations. The nineteenth century is particularly well represented by ten official volumes of annotated and corrected lists from the 1830s until the 1870s. They give very full dimensions and details of ships over a long period. An example of one of these is that belonging to the Earl of Minto (1872-1859), First Lord of the Admiralty, with details of ships during the 1830s, corrected to August 1841.

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:

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Edited by Sarah Drewery, Sep 2011.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: 2010-08-26


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Ships | Vehicles | Transport

Personal names
Kynynmound | Gilbert Elliot Murray | 1782-1859 | 2nd Earl of Minto | statesman

Corporate names
Royal Navy

Places