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Regarding the Storage of a Supply of Handspikes

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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

Sent from

War Office

Document number

1795051100101

Page start

1

Notable persons

Joshua Humphreys
Timothy Pickering

Notable locations

War Office

Notable items

handspikes
storage
measurements
ship