evan macgregor (6 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 369 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.84 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 376 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.85 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Printed stitched foolscap wraps, (2), 8, (1)pp. Very good, tanned, with small institutional ink stamp and internal reinforcement to the fore-edge of the upper wrap. This includes the "Slave Report for the Half-year ending 30th June, 1891" by Captain and Senior Naval Officer WH Henderson, detailing by month the dhow chasing, blockades and related activities undertaken by HMS Marathon, Mariner, Conquest and Cossack; Consul-General Gerald Portal's explanatory note to Lord Salibsury explaining his Notice on behalf of the Sultan prohibiting recruitment of soldiers, coolies and porters for service beyond borders; correspondence relating to Secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society Charles Allen's letter on the hiring of slave labour for the Congo River Station; the strong rebuttal by Indian merchants resident on Zanzibar of their alleged involvement in the trade, etc.

Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. Textured maroon cloth with gilt lettering and banding to spine. Red speckled page edges. In very good condition. Some rubbing to spine, lettering and ends rubbed. Rubbing to corners of boards. Some minor foxing spots to endpaeprs. W.H. Smith binders stamp at rear. Title and contents pages darkened/tanned, and last 4 pages. Some tanning to edges of inside pages, some minor foxing spots mostly to page edgse. Else a very good clean and tight copy. x + 703pp. 1pp advert at rear.

Brochure/Pamphlet. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. Two volumes of health reports of the Navy from 1888 and 1889, with folding plates. Two volumes of Statistical Reports of the Health of the Navy from the years 1888 and 1889 by the Secretary of the Admiralty Evan Macgregor.These volumes give a report on the health, general diseases wounds, injuries, suicides and hospitals of the navy in the years 1888 and 1889.With six folding maps to 1888 and six to 1889.Collated, complete. Both are in the original paper wraps. Externally, smart with the front wrap of 1889 torn to the head of the front joint, crease to the bottom extremity of 1888 front wrap and some fading to the spine. Internally, both are firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Very Good. book.

From around 1913 the recipient of these two documents elected to go by the name of Ralph Tindal. On the outbreak of the Great War he was appointed captain of the destroyer Electra, and in 1917 was made captain of the torpedo gunboat Circe. Thereafter he worked with paddle minesweepers, retiring with the rank of Commander in 1921. He was the father of RAF Group Captain Nicholas Tindal-Carill-Worsley (1911-2006), one of the planners of the celebrated Great Escape from Stalag Luft III. The National Maritime Museum contains a collection of 'Documents relating to the Naval Cadetship of Charles N, and Ralph Tindal Carill-Worsley. / Examinations, correspondence and printed documents' (MSS/76/080). Two documents, in Admiralty 'On Her Majesty's Service' envelope, with frank dated 24 December 1895 and Admiralty anchor stamp, addressed to 'Mr. R. Tindal-Carill-Worsley - / Platt Hall / Rusholme / Manchester'. The documents are in good condition, on lightly aged paper, in discoloured and torn envelope. ONE: Printed standard commission, completed in manuscript, with cyclostyled facsimile of signature of 'Evan MacGregor.' Dated: Admiralty, 24 December 1895. 1p, folio. 'SIR, / I AM commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you that, having passed successfully at the recent examination for Naval Cadetships, you are hereby appointed to H.M.S. "Britannia," from the 15th [January, 1896], and I am to direct you to join the Ship at Dartmouth, on the [25th. January] next. / You are to forward to the Captain of H.M.S. "Britannia," within a fortnight from this date, a Medical Certificate to the effect that you have been re-vaccinated since infancy. [the result of the operation being stated.] / A copy of the Regulations respecting Cadets while under training is enclosed, as is also a list of the various articles with which you must be provided previously to joining.' TWO: Printed document headed 'NAVAL CADETS. / REGULATIONS respecting Cadets while under Training. / (For the information of Parents and Guardians.)' With facsimile signature of 'Evan MacGregor.' 6pp, folio. Bifolium, with third leaf (paginated 5-6) attached at end. Pp.1-3 with fifteen numbered sections, beginning: '1. The Naval Cadets who join the "Britannia" are allowed Four Terms - two in each year - to complete their course of study; - at the expiration of which they go up for final examination.' P.4 headed: 'List of Articles required for a Naval Cadet on joining Her Majesty's Ship "Britannia." P.5 headed: 'List of Books required for a Naval Cadet on board H.M.S. "Britannia." The lower half of the page concerns the cadet's sextant. P.6 headed: 'The following Articles may be supplied to Cadets on board H.M.S. "Britannia.".