Regarding the Storage of a Supply of Handspikes
Document 1795Refers to a problem with storing handspikes -- if they cannot be stored at the shipyard, Pickering notes that placement in the common storage would cost more than the entire cost of the handspikes. Appended is a list of some measurements or values for the forward [before] and aft [abaft] sections of a ship.
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War Office May 11. 1795.
Sir
I will write to Mr Hodgon about the handspikes — if they cannot be deposited at the Ship yard. It will not do to put them in a common Store, as I presume the Storage would soon cost more than the price of the handspikes.
[strikethrough: letting one regulate it &c do &c]
your obt Servant
Pickering
Mr Joshua Humphreys
[Left margin, rotated:] Letters from the Secretary at War on a [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] 11 may [undecipherable]
[cover/endorsement page]
[Left side notes:]
1/7/8 bolts
5/16 d°
Rings
[undecipherable] comused
Bolts
[wax seal]
[Docket, written perpendicular:] Letters from the Secretary at War on a [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] 11 may [undecipherable]
[Enclosure]
Schooner
Counts [fy?] fore side of Port
2 [undecipherable] abaft the d°
ψ 2° — before d°
5 8° — abaft —
8 [2?]° — before —
N 0° — abaft
4 [2?]° — before
8 [2?]° — abaft } [undecipherable: probable reading "Headshrouds"]
B [2?]° — before
B [2?]° — abaft
B [2?]° — before
1 2° — abaft
3 2° — before
6 0° — abaft
8 0° — before
11 2° — abaft
13 2° — before
16 0° — abaft
18 2° — before
2 1 2° — abaft } [undecipherable: probable reading "main Chains"]
23 2° — before
2b 2° — abaft
28 0° — before
31 2° abaft
33.2°. before
36.2°. abaft
38.2° before
41.3°. abaft
44.
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Refers to a problem with storing handspikes -- if they cannot be stored at the shipyard, Pickering notes that placement in the common storage would cost more than the entire cost of the handspikes. Appended is a list of some measurements or values for the forward [before] and aft [abaft] sections of a ship.
Date
05/11/1795
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Office
Collection
Document number
1795051100101
Page start
1
Notable persons
Joshua Humphreys
Timothy Pickering
Notable locations
War Office
Notable items
handspikes
storage
measurements
ship

