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National Maritime Museum

Merchant Shipping: Signal Books and Signals

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0064 SIG/E

Held at: National Maritime Museum

Title: Merchant Shipping: Signal Books and Signals

Date(s): 1783-1794

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 2 vols

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CONTENT

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This category consists of two East India Company signal books. The first is a printed signal book of 1783 entitle 'A Collection of Signals for the use of the ships in the Service of the United East India Company'; a sheet of coloured flags has been loosely inserted, but the book was not issued. There is also a manuscript volume of signals issued by Captain Alexander Montgomerie to the fleet under his command, St Helena to England, 1794.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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