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General Records and Descriptions


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0064 HSR/Z

Held at: National Maritime Museum

Title: General Records and Descriptions

Date(s): [19th century-20th century]

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 35 items

Name of creator(s): Various

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

This catagory is composed of small collections of documents relating to specific events. It includes sketches of operations for raising the wreck of the ROYAL GEORGE and coloured illustrations with notes of items salvaged by Colonel Sir Charles Pasley (1780-1861) from the ROYAL GEORGE and the EDGAR, 1839 to 1840; press cuttings and correspondence relating to the Benin Expedition, 1897; and press cuttings and watercolours of the Zeebrugge Raid, 1918, with a chart used on the occasion by Sub-Lieutenant (later Captain) Nevil Pritchard (fl 1900-1979) of the WHIRLWIND.

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, Jun 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
Shipwrecks | Seaborne disasters | Accidents | Disasters
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Manmade disasters

Personal names
Pasley | Sir | Charles William | 1780-1861 | Knight | General and military engineer

Corporate names

Places
Nigeria | West Africa | Africa