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Gunnery manual and journal
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Alec J. Wilson journal of the H.M.S. Renown
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Confidential journal kept by a "sub-lieutenant" on the H.M.S. Renown during the voyage to India of the future George V and Queen Mary. Breaks off at Port Said, April 5, 1906. With many photographs of India, Suez, etc.
mssHM 31190
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Journal, commissions and orders concerning His Majesty's ships the Dorsetshire, Rochester and Royal Oak
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These two volumes record orders and naval operation while patrolling British waters in the Mediterranean during the war with Spain from 1717-1720. The first volume is a journal of H.M.S. Dorsetshire, Rochester and Royal Oak, and the second journal contains commissions and orders concerning the same ships
mssHM 57347 (vols 1&2)
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Thomas Cochran journal of a journey to Yo-Semite Valley
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Journal of a journey to Yosemite Valley and a voyage from San Francisco to the Isthmus of Panama aboard the ship Sacramento.
mssHM 52693
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Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson letter
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L.S. from Horatio Nelson to the Prinicipal Officers & Commissioners of His Majestys Navy regarding wages due various sailors. The letter was written by a secretary and only signed by Nelson; written aboard the H.M.S. Boreas at the Nore.
mssHM 80326
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Journal and logbook of John T. Hudson
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The logbook and journal covers two trading voyages from the Sandwich [Hawaiian] Islands to the Coast of upper and Lower California from November 13, 1805 through July 13, 1807. Excellent early journal of clandestine trading operations along the California coast, describing all transaction carried on the shore by Capt. Hudson with such details as the names of the padres, missions, ranchers, etc., with whom he traded, as well as otter skins purchased, prices paid, exchange of goods, etc.
mssHM 30491-30492
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Travel journal
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Includes a trip aboard the ship "Venus" from London to New York; travels to Washington, Baltimore, and New York.
mssHM 41557