RefNo | AP/18/7/1 |
Level | Item |
Title | Unpublished manuscript, 'An account of some operations executed at Cape Frio [Cabo Frio] by the officers and crew of HMS Algerine, for the purpose of raising part of the stores etc lost in HMS Thetis' by Commander J F F [John Frederick Fitzgerald] De Roos |
Date | 1834 |
Description | De Roos shares his account of the recovery of treasure from the wreckage of HMS Thetis off the south west coast of Cabo Frio [Brazil]. With five illustrations showing the recovery of stores and treasure from HMS Thetis.
Subject: Engineering
Received 14 January 1834 by John George Children.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'An account of some operations executed at Cape Frio, by the officers and crew of His Majesty's ship algerine, for the purpose of raising a part of the stores, &c. lost in His Majesty's ship thetis'. |
Extent | 34p |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA5041 | Roos; John Frederick Fitzgerald De (1804 - 1861) | 1804 - 1861 |