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- [1746-1911] (Creation)
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16 items
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GB 0064 SCS [1746-1911] Collection 16 items Various
This class consists of sixteen documents relating to shipbuilding, eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. They include a description of the machine which steered the IPSWICH across the Atlantic after the rudder had been carried away, 1746; the agreement for the building of an East India Company ship, the PRESTON, 1798; a patent for improvement in side propellors for ocean and river vessels, 1865; and papers relating to Admiral Sir Percy Scott's (1853-1924) proposed battleship design, 1911.
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Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .
Edited by Sarah Drewery, Sep 2011.
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.
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This class consists of sixteen documents relating to shipbuilding, eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. They include a description of the machine which steered the IPSWICH across the Atlantic after the rudder had been carried away, 1746; the agreement for the building of an East India Company ship, the PRESTON, 1798; a patent for improvement in side propellors for ocean and river vessels, 1865; and papers relating to Admiral Sir Percy Scott's (1853-1924) proposed battleship design, 1911.
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- English
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- Latin
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Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .
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- Transport engineering
- Transport engineering » Marine engineering
- Transport engineering » Marine engineering » Shipbuilding
- Vehicles
- Vehicles » Ships
- Personnel
- Personnel » Workers
- Personnel » Workers » Manual workers
- Transport engineering
- Transport engineering » Marine engineering
- Transport engineering » Marine engineering » Shipbuilding
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- Vehicles
- Vehicles » Ships
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- Industry » Manufacturing industry
- Industry » Manufacturing industry » Shipbuilding industry
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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.
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- English