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Flags and signals of all nations
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Flag signal books
Manuscripts
These three manuscripts contain text and illustrations of naval flag signals:
mssHM 81093-81095
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Royal Navy : Telegraph, Signals, Flags : Notes, Charts, hand-drawn & colored flags & signals
Manuscripts
(12 pieces). Some material very fragile -- handle carefully.
mssHamond
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Note of naval signal flags (1 p.)
Manuscripts
The twin cores of this small collection consist of (1) six letters from Captain Paterson to his uncle Charles William Tonyn (d. 1805, rector of Radnage in Buckinghamshire) and to his grandmother, written chiefly from the Mediterranean in 1793-1794, mentioning in passing the French Royalist uprising at Toulon in November 1793, Sir william Sidney Smith's attack on the French naval fleet and arsenal in the Inner Harbor at Toulon, and Paterson's own concerns for his family, patronage, and promotion, and (2) the Navy Board's various letters to Paterson concerning the personnel, supplies, and refitting of the ship Admiral de Vries at Chatham Yard in 1798. Other than a brief testimonial and a list of his promotions, there is virtually nothing about Paterson's earlier service in North America or his activities during the remainder of the Napoleonic Wars.
HM 76781