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Logs from Royds' early service as midshipman, ahead of his appointment as First Lieutenant on Scott's Discovery in 1901.
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CHARLES WILLIAM RAWSON ROYDS (1876-1931)
Autograph manuscript logs of Royds' service on H.M.S. Victory, Immortalité, Australia, Anson, Barfleur, Cruiser, Victory (a second time) and Martin, 1 August 1892 - 14 September 1896, comprising his service as midshipman and lieutenant in the Channel, the Bay of Biscay, the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Irish Sea, and the Aegean, including approximately 60 highly skilled technical drawings and 37 charts, the majority with signatures of approval of other officers, as well as five views, all tipped in, in two volumes, approximately 152 and 86 leaves, folio, calf, gilt. (2)
Autograph manuscript logs of Royds' service on H.M.S. Victory, Immortalité, Australia, Anson, Barfleur, Cruiser, Victory (a second time) and Martin, 1 August 1892 - 14 September 1896, comprising his service as midshipman and lieutenant in the Channel, the Bay of Biscay, the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Irish Sea, and the Aegean, including approximately 60 highly skilled technical drawings and 37 charts, the majority with signatures of approval of other officers, as well as five views, all tipped in, in two volumes, approximately 152 and 86 leaves, folio, calf, gilt. (2)