Government department

Royal Navy

United Kingdom

Government department. 7 people in the register connected with it.

History

10 August 1802
Commodore Sidney Smith's ship Tigre anchored at Katopaphos; his secretary Hammer-Purgstall visited Palaipaphos, and on a third day Smith gave him the ship's boat and crew to dig out a mosaic floor and take inscribed stones aboard. A sailor's carelessness smashed part of the mosaic, according to Hammer's memoirs. Smith gave away the larger inscription.
PalaipaphosWilliam Sidney Smith Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall Tatton-Brown 2001
1849
First accurate hydrographic chart of Cyprus produced under Thomas Spratt of HMS Volage ('Volvage' in print). Members or associates of the expedition visited the main sites with Demetrios Pierides; Commander (Lt. in Mitford) Edmund Leycester recorded many inscriptions, Greek and Cypro-Syllabic; Pierides also copied inscriptions with Spratt.
CyprusThomas Spratt Edmund Leycester Demetrios Pierides Ulbrich & Kiely 2012
1849
Leycester's 1849 copies of two pedestal inscriptions at the Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates, Kourion, were communicated to J. Hogg and published in Trans. Roy. Soc. Lit. 7 (1863), pp. 385-388, 'after Leycester'. Mitford thinks the stone, now lost, was among those broken up about 1920 for road metal.
KourionEdmund Leycester Mitford 1971
January–March 1891
HMS Melita under Commander G. F. King-Hall, on orders from the Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean (Vice Admiral Hoskins), removed the marble bull's-head capital found by the Cyprus Exploration Fund at Salamis in 1890: sledged and hoisted at Famagusta (26 January to 4 February 1891) and carried to Alexandria, where it went to HMS Amphion, then HMS Wye from Malta to Sheerness (arrived 28 March), then by rail to the British Museum. Cost to the Museum about 57 pounds 10s 11d by King-Hall's account (67 pounds 10s 11d with extra crew pay and compensation).
Salamis; FamagustaGeorge Fowler King-Hall Vice Admiral Sir A. H. Hoskins Henderson Joseph Martin Rogge et al. 2019

People

7 people

Staff and members · 7

Edmund Leycesterother (1849–1849) · officer of the survey; 'Lt.' in Mitford, 'Commander' in Ulbrich & KielyUlbrich & Kiely 20121849
Thomas Sprattother (1849–1849) · commander of the 1849 survey of CyprusUlbrich & Kiely 20121849
George Fowler King-Hallother (1891–1891) · Commander and Senior Naval OfficerRogge et al. 20191891
HendersonLieutenant1891
Joseph MartinAble Seaman1891
Vice Admiral Sir A. H. Hoskinsofficial (1891–1891) · Vice Admiral, Commander-in-Chief (as addressed in the 1891 report)Rogge et al. 20191891
William Sidney Smithother (1802–1802)Tatton-Brown 2001

Sources

1.Anja Ulbrich, Thomas Kiely (2012). “Britain and the Archaeology of Cyprus. I. The long 19th century”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42. Online
2.S. Rogge (ed.), Ch. Ioannou (ed.), Th. Mavrojannis (ed.) (2019). Salamis of Cyprus: History and Archaeology from the Earliest Times to Late Antiquity. Münster, Waxmann.
3.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.
4.T. B. Mitford (1971). The Inscriptions of Kourion. Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society.