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- Record Id:
- 040-003392698
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003392661
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100054223714.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89299/2
- Title:
- Naval log-book of Midshipman Herbert Norbury 1894-1895
- Scope & Content:
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Log-book kept by Midshipman Herbert Reginald Norbury, while serving on HMS Ramillies, HMS Tamar, HMS Victory, HMS Flexible and HMS Liberty, at Malta, Portsmouth, and Plymouth, March 1894 – August 1895. It includes charts, drawings and technical diagrams. Log kept in a half-leather bound naval log-book, printed by Waterlow & Sons for HMSO (with spine label ‘S.520 late S.625A Journal For Use of Junior Officers Afloat’).
Summary of service:
- HMS Ramillies 1 March-13 May 1894 (at Malta)
- HMS Tamar 13-25 May 1894, (at sea, to Portsmouth)
- HMS Victory 25 May-6 July 1894 (at Portsmouth)
- Discharged to shore
- HMS Inflexible 5 February-13 March 1895 (at Plymouth)
- HMS Liberty 14 March-13 August 1895 (at Plymouth).
Charts, drawings, and technical diagrams pasted onto blank pages at the end of each month include:
- Frontispiece: ‘Journal of HMS Ramillies from February 28th 94 to May 13th 94. Kept by H R Norbury Mid’, with pen and ink sketch of HMS Ramiliies and flags
- track chart of HMS Tamar from Malta to Gibraltar, May 1894
- track chart of HMS Tamar from Gibraltar to Portsmouth, May 1894
- plan of Plymouth Sound
- plan of Spithead and Portsmouth Harbour
- watercolour painting of HMS Sans Pareil
- pen, ink and wash drawing of HMS Ramillies
- chart of Estuary of the Thames and Medway
- pen and ink and wash drawing of sailing ship
- plan of getting out fore yard
- plan of hold of HMB Liberty
- soundings chart of Dartmouth Harbour
- track chart of HMB Liberty along coast between Plymouth and Dartmouth
- Finis: watercolour of ship (HMS Ramillies?) at anchor, and in the foreground a torpedo firing from the ship, inscribed ‘Finis’.
Lacks ‘Chart from June to September’ (label only remains), and excised folio labelled ‘Hydraulic Force Pump’ (with log entries for April 1895 on verso).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003392661
040-003392698 - Is part of:
- Add MS 89299 : Naval log-books of Midshipman Herbert Norbury
Add MS 89299/2 : Naval log-book of Midshipman Herbert Norbury 1894-1895 - Hierarchy:
- 032-003392661[0002]/040-003392698
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89299
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (about 90 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1894
- End Date:
- 1895
- Date Range:
- Mar 1894-Aug 1895
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Paper. Quarto.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)