BIB_ID
108494
Accession number
MA 38.45
Display Date
[1801-1807].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (2 p.), bound ; 32.3 cm.
Notes
Part of a collection of correspondence and papers of Rear Admiral James Burney. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
The memorandum is undated, however Sir Thomas Trowbridge was named a Lord of the Admiralty in 1801 and died in 1807; Trowbridge was lost at sea on the "Blenheim" returning from service in the East Indies.
Written in an unknown hand, but appearing to be endorsed in the hand of James Burney at the end of the memorandum; saying "Communicated to Sir Thomas Trowbridge, one of the Lords of the Admiralty;" endorsed on the verso of page two, in what appears to be the hand of James Burney, "On sinking vessels to obstruct the entrance into a Port."
The memorandum is undated, however Sir Thomas Trowbridge was named a Lord of the Admiralty in 1801 and died in 1807; Trowbridge was lost at sea on the "Blenheim" returning from service in the East Indies.
Written in an unknown hand, but appearing to be endorsed in the hand of James Burney at the end of the memorandum; saying "Communicated to Sir Thomas Trowbridge, one of the Lords of the Admiralty;" endorsed on the verso of page two, in what appears to be the hand of James Burney, "On sinking vessels to obstruct the entrance into a Port."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch in July 1905.
Summary
Detailed instructions on how to sink a sink with consideration given to the effect of tides in the channel or port.
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