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Description: | Wooden box for Miller-Dunn diving apparatus. Box marked 'DUNN DIVINHOOD, MILLER DUNN CO., MIAMI, FLA, OUTFIT NO. 2'. There is a label on the box which shows it was sent from Miller Dunn to Mr William Beebe, 23 West 67th Street, New York City. The number 'R44B' is chalked on the box. Related parts are numbered AOA2269, AOA2270, AOA2271. Also found in the box were an iron collar and three iron bars (see AOA2272.1-4).
Arrived at the museum along with a large 'framed needlework panel of the Ships of the Mediterranean Fleet, worked by the Wives of the men & presented to H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, dimensions 8ft 8 x 4ft which we could send on perpetual loan'. There is a note attached to the 1936 correspondence in file NMM6/862/1/36 from G Naish to D Osbon, to say that this panel could not be located at the museum in 1971.
Item Category changed from 'Archaeology' to 'Antiquities - Ships Equipment' with the approval of Gillian Hutchinson and Barbara Tomlinson, 2014-08-04 (Stephen Goddard)
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | diving equipment The Deep-Sea Diver; Yesterday Miller-Dunn Company Today and Tomorrow boxes | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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