19th-Century Navy: Collection of 14 documents: - Signed lett - Lot 200

19th-Century Navy: Collection of 14 documents: - Signed letter from Navy Minister Decrès announcing his retirement to a captain, Vendémiaire, Year 12 (October 1803) - Imperial decree establishing and organizing maritime courts, 1806 - Imperial decree regarding Prussian ships detained in French ports, 1806 - Royal ordinance regarding timber required for shipbuilding (25 pages, 1816) - Letter from Chandernagor in 1839 announcing the death at the Calcutta hospital of a sailor from the brig “Le Lancier” - Military service record of a seaman on the frigate “L’Océan,” in Brest, 1839–1845 - Service record of a quartermaster, in Saint-Malo, 1868 - Printed copies of six draft bills on the Navy in 1887 (naval officer ranks, oversight and administration, the Navy Medical Corps, naval engineering, the Navy Quartermaster’s Office, and secondary naval corps)