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Memoir and papers of Commander James Henry Butt, c. 1867-1869 : Artwork, Illustrations and Photographs|Memoirs and Narratives Jun 1867 - 31 Dec 1869.
Life at Sea : Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-1900 Available online
View online- Format:
- Image
- Author/Creator:
- Butt, James Henry, author.
- Series:
- Life at Sea: Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-2006
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Navies.
- Sailors.
- Taiwan.
- Japan.
- Genre:
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2022.
- Summary:
- Loose items found inside the memoir of James Henry Butt: (1) and (2) Two track charts showing survey work undertaken by HMS SYLVIA (1866) around the island of Formosa, June and July 1867. (3) Single sheet with a description of the burial place of the 'tycoons' (shoguns) at Shiba in Tokyo, visited by Butt on 8 April 1869. The other side has a poem and sketch on the subject of going to bed on New Year's Eve. (4) Printed chart showing Kuru-Shima no Seto (Kuroshima Strait) and adjacent passages near Imabari, Japan, surveyed by Butt and others in 1869. (5) Small watercolour by Butt showing the Royal Naval College at Greenwich, with a steam tug and a sailing barge in the foreground, undated.
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference:BGR/53/2.
- National Maritime Museum, UK: Biographies (BGR).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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