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Vol. VII (ff. 357). Jan.- June 1854.

Crimean War: Papers rel. to Baltic expedition during: 1854-1856.

Baltic Sea: Papers of Adm. Sir C. Napier rel. to defences, etc., of, and naval expedition to: 1853-1856.

includes:

ff. 1-347 passim Sir James Robert George Graham, 2nd Baronet; of Netherby; statesman: Correspondence with Adm. Sir C. Napier: 1827-1854.
f. 7 Vice-Admiral Hyde Parker, CB; Lord of the Admiralty: Commissions signed by: 1854.
f. 15 Henry Pelham Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle: Instructions rel. to employment of the Baltic Fleet: 1854.: Extract.
f. 17 George Strachey, of the Consular service: Report on the Russian Baltic Fleet: 1854.: Copy.
f. 23 (copy) George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon: Letters to the Admiralty: 1854.
ff. 27, 76, 78, 150 (copies) Ralph Osborne, formerly Bernal; MP; Secretary of the Admiralty: Letters to Adm. Sir C. Napier: 1854.
f. 34 Kronstadt, Russia: Report on: 1849, 1854.: Transl. and copy.
f. 34 Riffault, Captain of Engineers: Report on Kronstadt: 1849.: Transl.
ff. 34, 46, 49, 163, 271, 295 Fortification: Reports, etc., on fortifications in the Baltic: 1835-1854.
f. 46 Bomarsund, Aland I: Memorandum on.: 1835: Copy.
f. 49 Revel al. Reval, Esthonia: Suggestions rel. to proposed attack on, etc.: 1854.
f. 51 Portsmouth, Hampshire: Address to Adm. Sir Napier: 1854.: Copy.
ff.55, 137, 170,226, 316 Admiral Sir Alexander Milne, 1st Baronet 1876 KCB; Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty: Correspondence with Adm. Sir C. Napier: 1847-1854.
f. 61 Lieutenant-General James Shaw Kennedy, KCB 1863: Letter to --: 1854.: Copy.
ff. 74-345 passim Admiral Sir Maurice Frederick FitzHardinge Berkeley, 1st Baron FitzHardinge GCB: Correspondence with Adm. Sir C. Napier: 1840-1854.
f. 79 Lieutenant Frederick Blacker, RN: Letter to R. Osborne: 1854.: Copy.
f. 81 Royal Elder Canal: Notes on: [circ. 1854].
f. 81 Canals: Notes on Royal Eider Canal: circ. 1854.
f. 82 George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon: Letters to Adm. Sir C. Napier: 1848-1854.
ff. 103-107, 120, 121, 172, 174, 230 (copies) Captain William Alexander Baillie- Hamilton, Secretary to the Admiralty: Letters to Adm. Sir C. Napier: 1845-1855.: Mostly signed.
ff. 108, 124, 142, 187, 212, 258, 288 Captain Louis Amable Laurencin, of the French Navy: Letters to Adm. Sir C. Napier: 1854.: Fr.
ff. 110, 207, 260, 262 Captain Alfred Phillipps Ryder, RN; KCB 1884: Letters and reports to Adm. Sir C. Napier: 1854.: Mostly signed.
f.118 Colonel Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps, KCB; Keeper of the Queen's Purse: Letter to Adm. Sir C. Napier: 1854.: copy.
f. 126 Faröe Sound: Report on, by Capt. B. T. Sulivan: 1854.
ff. 126, 248 (signed) Captain Bartholomew James Sulivan, RN; KCB 1869: Reports on Faröe Sound and Aland Islands: 1854.
ff. 135, 326, 327, 332 Admiral Sir William Hutcheon Hall, KCB: Letters and reports to Adm. Sir C. Napier: 1847-1854.: Mostly signed.
ff. 139, 140, 205 Rear-Admiral Hastings Reginald Yelverton, GCB and Admiral 1875: Letters and reports to Commodore M. Seymour and Adm. Sir C. Napier: 1854.: Signed.
f. 155 George Biddlecombe, Master, RN; Knight 1873: Letter to Rear-Adm. J. H. Plumridge: 1854.
ff. 156, 275, 309 Rear-Admiral Sir James Hanway Plumridge, KCB: Orders, etc., by: 1854.
ff. 157, 239, 331 Captain Claude Henry Mason Buckle, RN; KCB 1875: Reports to Adms. Sir C. Napier and J. H. Plumridge: 1854.: Signed.
f. 163 Lieutenant-General Sir Harry David Jones, GCB; Governor, RMC, Sandhurst: Memorandum rel. to proposed attack on Sveaborg: 1854.: Copy.
ff. 163, 271, 295, 299 Sveaborg, Finland: Memoranda and observations on defences of, and proposed attack on: 1854-1856.
ff. 201, 322, 341, 356 Admiral Alexandre Ferdinand Parseval-Desch nes, of the French navy: Letters to Adm. Sir C. Napier: 1854.: Fr.: Mostly signed.
f. 208 George K- Keeton, Chief Engineer, RN: Report on the engines of H.M.S. " Dauntless": 1854.: Copy.
ff. 209, 343 Rear-Admiral Armar Lowry-Corry: Report of proceedings of his squadron to Adm. Sir C. Napier: 1854.: Signed.
f. 220 Sir John Dorney Harding, QC; Advocate-General: Letter to Sir J. R. G. Graham: 1854.: Copy.
ff. 236, 273, 292, 305, 307, 351 William George Grey, 8th son of Charles, 2nd Earl Grey; diplomatist: Letters to Adm. Sir C. Napier: 1854.
ff. 237, 274, 324 Rear-Admiral Sir James Hanway Plumridge, KCB: Reports to Adm. Sir C. Napier: 1854.: Signed.
f. 243 Rear-Admiral Sir James Hanway Plumridge, KCB: Proclamation to inhabitants of Russian ports in Gulf of Bothnia: 1854.: Copy. Signed.
f. 245 Captain George Giffard, RN KCB 1875: Returns signed by: 1854.
f. 246 Lieutenant Benjamin Pentland Priest, RN: Report to Capt. G. Giffard: 1854.: Signed.
f. 248 Alan Islands: Report conc.: 1854.
ff. 263, 265, 268, 268 b Joseph Dowson and Co: Letters to Capt. F. W. Brocksch (?): 1854.: Copies.
f. 267 Thomas Gillespy, ship and insurance broker: Letter to L. N. Gueguist (?): 1854.: Copy.
f. 271 Admiral Sir Henry Ducie Chads, GCB: Letters and reports to Adm. Sir C. Napier: 1848-1854.: Mostly copies or signed.
ff. 276-284 passim Captain Frederick Henry Hastings Glasse, RA; CB: Report, orders, etc., rel. to his attack on Gamla Carleby: 1854.: Signed.
ff. 276-287 Gamla Carleby, Finland: Papers rel. to British attack on: 1854.
f. 277 Lieutenant Charles Arthur Wise, RN: Report to Capt. F. H. H. Glasse: 1854.: Signed.
f. 287 Captain Francis Scott, RN: Letter to Capt. F. H. H. Glasse: 1854.: Signed.
f. 295 Lieutenant Emil Theorell, Swedish naval officer attached to HMS Exmouth: Memorandum on the defences of Sveaborg: 1854.
f. 298 Maps and Plans: Plan of defences of Sveaborg: 1854.
f. 319 Captain Arthur Cumming, RN; KCB 1887: Report to Capt. A. C. Key: 1854.: Signed.
f. 321 Captain Arthur Cumming, RN; KCB 1887: Letter to the Governor of Windau: 1854.: Copy. Signed.
f. 329 Robert Pottinger, Surgeon, RN: Return by: 1854.
f. 330 George Hare, carpenter, RN: Return by: 1854.
f. 331 James Balson, carpenter, RN: Return by: 1854.
f. 333 Rear-Admiral John Washington, Hydrographer of the Navy: Report to Adm. Sir J. R. G. Graham: 1854.: Copy.
f. 352 James Arthur Douglas Bloomfield, 2nd Baron Bloomfield: Letters to Adm. Sir C. Napier: 1854.

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Add MS 40018-40055 : NAPIER PAPERS: private and official correspondence and papers of Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.B. (b. 1786, d. 1860).…
Add MS 40018-40027 : NAPIER PAPERS. Vols. I-X. General Correspondence of Adm. Sir C. Napier, etc. ; 1796-1904. The names of the writers are given…

Add MS 40024 : Vol. VII (ff. 357). Jan.- June 1854. Crimean War: Papers rel. to Baltic expedition during: 1854-1856. Baltic Sea: Papers of Adm. Sir…

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1854

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1854

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Jan 1854-Jun 1854

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Names:

Balson, James, carpenter, Royal Navy, fl 1854
Berkeley, Maurice Frederick FitzHardinge, Admiral GCB, 1st Baron FitzHardinge
Biddlecombe, George, Master, RN; Knight 1873
Blacker, Frederick, Lieutenant; RN
Bloomfield, James Arthur Douglas, 2nd Baron Bloomfield
Buckle, Claude Henry Mason, Captain; RN; KCB 1875
Chads, Henry Ducie, Admiral GCB
Cumming, Arthur, Captain; RN; KCB 1887
Deschenes, Alexandre Ferdinand, naval officer, 1790-1860
Dowson, Joseph, shipowner, fl before 1854
Giffard, George, naval officer, 1815-1895
Gillespy, Thomas, ship and insurance broker, fl 1854
Glasse, Frederick Henry Hastings, naval officer, 1806-1884
Graham, James Robert George, 2nd Baronet, of Netherby, politician, 1792-1861
Grey, William George, diplomat and son of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, 1819-1865
Hall, William Hutcheon, Knight, naval officer, 1797?-1878
Hamilton, William Alexander Baillie-, Captain; Secretary to the Admiralty
Harding, John Dorney, QC, Advocate-General
Hare, George, carpenter, RN
Jones, Harry David, Lieutenant-General GCB, Governor RMC Sandhurst
Keeton, George K., Chief Engineer, Royal Navy, fl 1854
Kennedy, James Shaw, Lieutenant-General; KCB 1863
Laurencin, Louis Amable, Captain; of the French Navy
Lowry-Corry, Armar, Rear-Admiral
Milne, Alexander, 1st Baronet 1876, Admiral; KCB; Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty
Osborne, Ralph, formerly Bernal; MP; Secretary of the Admiralty
Parker, Hyde, Vice-Admiral; CB; Lord of the Admiralty
Pelham-Clinton, Henry Pelham, 5th Duke of Newcastle
Phipps, Charles Beaumont, Colonel KCB, Keeper of the Queen's Purse
Plumridge, James Hanway, Rear-Admiral KCB
Pottinger, Robert, Surgeon, RN
Priest, Benjamin Pentland, Lieutenant; RN
Riffault, Captain of Engineers
Royal Elder Canal
Ryder, Alfred Phillipps, Captain; RN; KCB 1884
Scott, Francis, Captain; RN
Strachey, George, of the Consular service
Sulivan, Bartholomew James, Captain; RN; KCB 1869
Theorell, Emil, Lieutenant Swedish naval officer attached to HMS Exmouth
Villiers, George William Frederick, 4th Earl of Clarendon, politician, 1800-1870
Washington, John, Rear-Admiral Hydrographer of the Navy
Wise, Charles Arthur, Lieutenant; RN
Yelverton, Hastings Reginald, Rear-Admiral; GCB and Admiral 1875

Places:

Aland Islands, Finland
Baltic Sea, Europe
Bomarsund, Aland
Faröe Sound, Northern Europe
Gamla Carleby, Finland
Kronstadt, Russia
Portsmouth, Hampshire
Revel al. Reval, Esthonia
Sveaborg, Finland