Box 5

Includes:

• Letter from Office of Ordnance, acknowledging receipt of report of surveys on gunners’ stores. (1 April 1822)
• Letter from Navy Office, acknowledging receipt of Reports of surveys on Boatswain and Carpenters’ stores (10 April 1822)
• Letter from Admiralty Secretary John Barrow, advising Whitshed that the Admiralty had appropriated HMS Active to take the Earl of Huntington, his two daughters, an aide de camp, and four servants, to Huntington’s new post as Governor of Dominica, and had ordered the fitting of suitable accommodation in Active for that purpose. (10 April 1822)

An alphabetical index, with tabs A to Z, of Whitshed’s correspondence and orders to ships of war from February 1822 to unspecified date.

Copy of the original document retained by the donor.

Includes: “A Log of the Proceeding of HMS St. Vincent, 120, bearing the Flag of Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Bart, Commanded by Sir Richard Grant, Knt. Captain, Commencing 17th March 1846, Ending 4th January 1847. Kept by James Hawkins Whitshed, Naval Cadet;” “A Log of the Proceedings of HMS Thetis, 36. Commanded by Henry L. Codrington, Esq., CB, Captain. Commencing 5th January 1847, Ending 14th September 1847. Kept by James H. Whitshed, Naval Cadet.”

This James H. Whitshed was the grandson of Admiral Whitshed.

Printed books and pamphlets, 1772-1998; Copies of Correspondence, 1798-1822; Copies of Orders, 1784-1804 Naval Cadet's Journal, 1846-1847; Track charts, 1808-1810; Various charts of North American and Europe, 1693-1778; The Dublin Chronicle, 1790-1791; Signal books and Sailing Instructions, 1791-1798; Naval Appointments, 1799-1844; Instructions for conduct of ships of war, 1795-1798; Instructions for Courts Martial, 1743-1798.

Bound photocopy of typescript biography of Whitshed, prepared by the donor for members of the family and as a guide to this collection. 249 pages with additional unnumbered pages for appendices.