One of the documents that I purchased for my Admiralty Manuals project is BR 2092 Handling Ships, the cover of which is seen here to the left. This is the successor to another document from the 1930s, which I will talk about later.
This volume covers advanced shiphandling and fleet work, and was one of the Restricted documents that were published as part of the BR series. It also contains private turning data for the Royal Navy’s warships- data important for both regular shiphandling as well as tactical situations, and the details of which you wouldn’t want to fall into the hands of well, Russia, or whoever (although they could derive it from observation, likely). In the 1960s, it was incorporated into the Manual of Navigation as the restricted Volume IV, which again I will discuss later in another post in this series.
My friend Dave has been very kind to loan me his father’s large-format scanner, so I have been able to scan this document and turn it into a PDF for people to enjoy. Unfortunately, I was not able to successfully OCR the document (I believe the issues result from the PDF editor’s watermark.)
Just as a glance, to see the Table of Contents and what is contained within. Appendix I is really why this document was Restricted- and indeed- supposed to be destroyed.
I have also as part of this PDF scanned a number of loose-leaf updates and and handwritten documents that were within the book when I bought it, which are just interesting. Two of them are related to RNR units and activities.
