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HMS Ganges


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0064 GNS

Held at: National Maritime Museum

Title: HMS Ganges

Date(s): [1782-1889]

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 3 vols: 8 items

Name of creator(s): HMS Ganges

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The GANGES, launched in 1821, became a training ship for boys in 1866. The ship was moored in Falmouth Bay until 1899 when it was moved to the Essex Coast off Shotley, near Harwich, where it remained until 1906. From 1905 the training establishment was based on shore at Shotley where it remained until its closure in 1976.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to HMS GANGES consisting of three logs of the GANGES, 1826 to 1827 and 1850 to 1852, and one kept on the SWIFTSURE, 1888 to 1889. There are eight documents, including four orders received in 1782 by Admiral Sir Thomas Graves ([1747]-1814) from Admirals Lord Hood (q.v.), Lord Rodney (1719-1792), 1782, Lord Cornwallis (q.v.), 1804, and Lord Collingwood (q.v.) (1804). Also in the collection are miscellaneous letters from Sir Edward Pellew (q.v.), 1810, and Lord St Vincent (q.v.), 1801 and 1822.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The collection, which comes from the museum of H.M.S. Ganges, was deposited on loan by the Ministry of Defence in 1965.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Edited by Sarah Drewery, Jun 2011.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: 2010-08-26


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Ships logs | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources

Personal names
Collingwood | Cuthbert | 1750-1810 | Vice-Admiral | 1st Baron Collingwood
Cornwallis | Charles | 1738-1805 | 1st Marquess Cornwallis | governor-general of India and lord lieutenant of Ireland
Graves | Sir | Thomas | c 1747-1814 | Knight | Admiral
Hood | Samuel | 1724-1816 | 1st Viscount Hood | Admiral
Jervis | John | 1735-1823 | Earl of St Vincent | Admiral of the Fleet
Pellew | Edward | 1757-1833 | 1st Viscount Exmouth | Admiral
Rodney | George Brydges | 1719-1792 | 1st Baron Rodney | Admiral

Corporate names
HMS Ganges
HMS Swiftsure
Royal Navy

Places