Pollard-Whitshed Collection
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0064 PDW |
Held at | : National Maritime Museum Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://collections.rmg.co.uk/ › |
Full title | : Pollard-Whitshed Collection |
Date(s) | : 1784-1878 |
Level of description | : Collection
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Extent | : |
Name of creator(s) | : Pollard | Edwin John | 1833-1909 | Rear-Admiral
Whitshed | Sir | James Hawkins | 1762-1849 | Knight | Admiral of the Fleet |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
See sub-fonds level descriptions for individual biographies.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Rear-Admiral Edwin John Pollard, including accounts, memoranda and sailing orders for 1858 to 1861, 1863 to 1865 and 1878; a notebook recording the ships in which Pollard served as a junior officer; a watch bill, 1860 to 1861; a book of technical details on the RUPERT and the DEFENCE and newspaper cuttings. 1858 to 1878.
Papers of Sir James Hawkins Whitshed. They include a letterbook of the ROSE, 1784 to 1785; sailing directions and orders of battle, 1800 to 1801, and three letters concerning the possibility of mutiny in the Channel Fleet, 1800.
Access & 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, part of the Pollard-Whitshed collection, were presented by Mr H H W Pollard in 1946.
Allied Materials
Related material:
Publication note:
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
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