RefNo | CB/1/1/189 |
AltRefNo | BLA.B.106 |
Level | Item |
Title | Copy of the report by John King and the committee appointed to advise the government on Robert Fulton's plan for submarine warfare |
Date | [August 1806] |
Description | List objections and discuss viability of plan, previous experiments in America and likelihood of similar means being used by the French. Argue that it would be wrong for a great maritime power to encourage such modes of warfare [Point 5] and that the common interest of every maritime nation would urge them to guard against it [Point 7]. |
Extent | 1 sheet |
Format | Manuscript |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | See Item 305, The Banks Letters, A Calendar of the manuscript correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks preserved in the British Museum... London, 1958. See BLA.B.92 |
RelatedRecord | CB/1/1/175 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8116 | Banks; Sir; Joseph (1744 - 1820); naturalist | 1744 - 1820 |