Dawkins Papers at the National Maritime Museum
A list of the papers of Rear-Admiral (retired) Richard Dawkins in the possession of the National Maritime Museum, London.
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Service Career 1841-75: Commission and certificates covering whole of Dawkins naval career, including Freemasonry documents
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Service Career 1841-75: Journal 1851-55 while serving in the MODESTE
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Service Career 1841-75: Journal kept on board steam floating battery GLATTON which served in the Crimea 1855-56
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Service Career 1841-75: Journal kept in HM steam ship ESK 1856-57, in COMUS 1858, and CALCUTTA 1857-58
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Service Career 1841-75: station bill of HMS MARS dated 1861
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Vanguard Papers, 1875-76: report to the Court Martial, Parliamentary return 18 Feb 1876 and a copy of an act of 1747 for government of HM Shps etc.
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Vanguard Papers, 1875-76: press cuttings 1875-76
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Vanguard Papers, 1875-76: drafts and printed copies of Capt Dawkins memorial to the Admiralty 1877
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Vanguard Papers, 1875-76: notebooks containing Dawkins own account of the loss of the VANGUARD and the proceeding following the loss, not dated
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Vanguard Papers, 1875-76: papers marked by Dawkins 'Important papers-VANGUARD', containing mainly semi-technical information about ship and circumstances of collision, not dated
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Vanguard Papers, 1875-76: private letters sorted by J M Dawkins, from Capt Dawkins to Mrs Dawkins during the summer of 1875 both before and after the collision and in 1876
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Vanguard Papers, 1875-76: private letters sorted by J M Dawkins, of sympathy received by Capt and Mrs Dawkins immediately after the collision Sep 1875
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Vanguard Papers, 1875-76: private letters sorted by J M Dawkins, of sympathy received by Capt and Mrs Dawkins after court martial findings Oct 1875
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Letters received by Dawkins after 1875 chiefly about further employment
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'Outlines of Naval Routine' 1837 printed book owned by Dawkins in 1857
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File containing miscellaneous papers and correspondence between J M Dawkins and the National Maritime Museum 1965
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Sea shanties, one sheet of holograph with two of typescript
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Letters written by Louisa Doyle, sister-in-law of Adm Dawkins, to her son John 1866 and 1875 (both incomplete) and to her sister Mary, Dawkin's widow, expressing condolence on his death 1896, also a note by J M Dawkins 14 Jan 1961
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Pictures: watercolour sketches of ships initialled by R M D and a photograph of Dawkins in 1895
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