Watch bills.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Schedules assigning regular periods of work duty aboard ships and in some other areas of employment. Source: en.wikipedia.org (2017).
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
“The Watch-, Quarter-, and Station-bills, boats’ crews, & signals, and Orders and Regulations of His Majesty's Ship Forte”, with a plan of the decks., 1823.
File
Identifier: MS.2456
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates:
1823.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Various logbooks, order-books, returns, and other material concerning the naval careers of Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, and of his son Sir Thomas John Cochrane.
Watch-bill, quarter-bill, and orders and regulations of H.M.S. 'Narcissus', Captain Ross Donnelly, in which Sir Thomas John Cochrane is an officer., [?1801-?1805.]
File
Identifier: MS.2445
Scope and Contents
The date must be between the end of 1801, when Captain Ross Donnelly got the 'Narcissus', and June 1805, when Thomas John Cochrane was appointed as Lieutenant to the 'Jason'.
Dates:
[?1801-?1805.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Various logbooks, order-books, returns, and other material concerning the naval careers of Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, and of his son Sir Thomas John Cochrane.