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- 18th century - 1956 (Creation)
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1 1/2ft: 45cm
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GB 0064 VBK 18th century - 1956 Collection 1 1/2ft: 45cm Various
This class contains fourteen visitors' books of ships and places and also autograph books. Among the ships; visitors' books are those for the KING GEORGE V, 1913 to 1923, the CAPETOWN, 1934 to 1943 and the MAGPIE, 1950 to 1956. There is a distinguished visitors' book, 1926 to 1936, of the Royal Naval Museum, Greenwich, and a book containing autographs of naval officers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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English
Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .
Edited by Sarah Drewery, Oct 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 contains fourteen visitors' books of ships and places and also autograph books. Among the ships; visitors' books are those for the KING GEORGE V, 1913 to 1923, the CAPETOWN, 1934 to 1943 and the MAGPIE, 1950 to 1956. There is a distinguished visitors' book, 1926 to 1936, of the Royal Naval Museum, Greenwich, and a book containing autographs of naval officers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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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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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