Download or read book A Descriptive Catalogue of the Naval Manuscripts in the Pepysian Library at Magdalene College Cambridge written by Pepys Library and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Descriptive Catalogue of the Naval Manuscripts in the Pepysian Library written by J.R. Tanner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) made a significant contribution to British history by his work as a naval administrator, and he bequeathed to Magdalen College, Cambridge its greatest treasure – his library, a unique collection of 3,000 books and manuscripts, still preserved as he left it. There are 250 volumes of manuscripts and these NRS volumes published selected documents from the collection. In this volume Tanner gives a lengthy general introduction to Pepys’s career as a naval administrator and to the papers he left at his death, and also prints from them lists of ships and officers from 1660 to 1688.
Download or read book A Descriptive Catalogue of the Naval Manuscripts in the Pepysian Library at Magdalene College Cambridge written by Pepys Library and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide to the Manuscript Materials for the History of the United States to 1783 in the British Museum in Minor London Archives and in the Libraries of Oxford and Cambridge written by Charles McLean Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Extensive Important and Valuable Collection of Books Manuscripts Autograph Letters written by William Tite and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-17 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book Guide to the Manuscript Materials for the History of the United States to 1783 written by Charles McLean Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cambridge Modern History written by Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pepys s Navy written by J. D. Davies and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensively illustrated reference covering four tumultuous decades that gave birth to the modern Royal Navy. Winner of the Samuel Pepys Prize and Latham Medal This reference book describes every aspect of the English navy in the second half of the seventeenth century, from the time when the Fleet Royal was taken into Parliamentary control after the defeat of Charles I, until the accession of William and Mary in 1689 when the long period of war with the Dutch came to an end. This is a crucial era that witnessed the creation of a permanent naval service, in essence the birth of today’s Royal Navy. Samuel Pepys, whose thirty years of service did so much to replace the ad hoc processes of the past with systems for construction and administration, is one of the most significant players, and the navy that was, by 1690, ready for a century of global struggle with the French owed much to his tireless work. This major reference for historians, naval enthusiasts, and, anyone with an interest in this colorful era of the seventeenth century covers: naval administration ship types and shipbuilding naval recruitment and crews seamanship and gunnery shipboard life dockyards and bases the foreign navies of the period the three major wars fought against the Dutch in the Channel and the North Sea “Davies writes clearly, knows his subject extremely well, organizes the material effectively, and covers each topic thoroughly . . . there’s some new piece of revelatory detail on pretty much every page. If you’re at all interested in seventeenth century sailing ships—especially English ships—this is a truly fascinating and rewarding book.” —Corsairs and Captives
Download or read book Royal Yachts Under Sail written by Brian Lavery and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the time of the Restoration of Charles II, when he returned to England from Breda and was presented with the yacht Mary by the burgomaster of Amsterdam, Royal yachts began to be defined as such in England and built with that special purpose in mind. They were built luxuriously and used for royal visits to the fleet, for diplomacy and for racing and cruising for pleasure. Charles II took more of an interest in the sea than any other English monarch. He built a fleet of royal yachts, fine examples of ship design and decorative art, and he can be said to have been the father of yachting and of royal yachts. His successors were less keen on the sea but traveled to Europe on missions of peace and war; and royal yachts took part in regime change several times. In 1689 Queen Mary was bought over to join her husband William of Orange and complete the ‘Glorious Revolution’. In 1714 George I arrived from Hanover to establish a new dynasty. And in 1814, in a reverse process, King Louis XVIII was taken back to France to restore the monarchy after the defeat of Napoleon. This important new book is the first to describe the building and decoration of the yachts in such detail, using many newly discovered sources; and it is the first to describe their uses and exploits, often taking their royal passengers into controversy or danger. Besides the yachts themselves, it reveals much about the character of the kings, queens and princes involved – the impetuousness of the future William IV for example, or his brother George IV’s surprising love of sailing. It describes the design, accommodation, and sailing of the yachts, as well as their captains and crews. Sailing yachts came to an end when Queen Victoria discovered that steam power was more efficient as well as more comfortable, but they revived in the form of her son Edward’s cutter Britannia, and the Duke of Edinburgh’s Bloodhound and Coweslip. Their legacy can be seen in the widespread sport of yachting today, and in the lavish superyachts of billionaires. This beautifully illustrated book, full of anecdote and containing detailed descriptions of dozens of royal yachts, will fascinate naval historians, ship modelers and, indeed, anyone who sets foot aboard the deck of a modern yacht.
Download or read book Annual List of New and Important Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual List of New and Important Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Papers of Thomas Bowrey 1669 1713 written by Thomas Bowrey and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Report to the King in Council from the Honourable Board of Commissioners on the Public Records with an Appendix and Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Report from the Board of Commissioners on the Public Records with an Appendix and Index 1831 37 written by Great Britain. Record Commission and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tangier Papers of Samuel Pepys written by Edwin Chappell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1683 Samuel Pepys accompanied George Legge, Lord Dartmouth, to Tangier as his secretary. During the voyage Pepys kept another brief diary and miscellaneous notes which contain valuable information about the navy. He recorded his concerns, as well as the views of the sea officers and others with him. Richard Leake, master gunner, was criticised by Pepys for not being able to hit the side of the target, and for not being able to get the charges correct to blow up the forts. He recorded that Captain David Lloyd, a sea officer, was also a painter with a good reputation. Pepys records his views about the merits of gentleman captains and their behaviour compared to ‘tarpaulin captains’. He also collected in these Papers every story he could, about the alleged immorality and corruptness of Arthur Herbert, the commander-in-chief of the English Mediterranean fleet, in order to discredit him with the king. Herbert had, in fact, returned to England before Pepys had arrived in Tangier. The source of the stories about Herbert’s behaviour, in the Tangier Papers, came from old friends of Pepys and Herbert’s enemies, and are not to be trusted, or accepted as a true account of what Herbert achieved; this can only be traced through Herbert’s own letters and the unpublished admiralty papers in the Public Record Office.
Download or read book Bibliotheca Pepysiana Sea manuscripts by J R Tanner written by Pepys Library and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Cambridge written by Pepys Library (Cambridge) and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1978 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
