IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0064 TUP
Held at: National Maritime Museum
Title: Tupper, Lieutenant Charles George De Beauvoir (1872-1893)
Date(s): 1867-1891
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 5 vols
Name of creator(s): Tupper | Charles George De Beauvoir | 1872-1893 | Lieutenant
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Tupper joined the RALEIGH, flagship at the Cape of Good Hope, as a midshipman in 1888 and remained in her until 1891. He became a lieutenant in 1892. In 1893 he was on the South American Station in the RACER and died when a powder magazine exploded at Rio de Janeiro.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Charles Tupper, they include two journals, 1889 to 1891, official service documents, a collection of Admiralty charts, 1867 to 1881, and the official letters received by Tupper's mother reporting his death.
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 Major J.C. Wilder in 1956.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Edited by Sarah Drewery, Oct 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