Download or read book The Naval Chronicle Volume 19 January July 1808 written by James Stanier Clarke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 19 of the Naval Chronicle (1808) reports the capture of Madeira and successful trials of a steamboat in America.

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Download or read book The Naval Chronicle written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1813 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Naval Chronicle, published in 40 volumes between 1799 and 1818, is a key source for British maritime and military history. This reissue is the first complete printed reproduction of what was the most influential maritime publication of its day. The subjects covered range from accounts of battles and lists of ships to notices of promotions and marriages, courts martial and deaths, and biographies, poetry and letters. Each volume also contains engravings and charts relating to naval engagements and important harbours around the world. Volume 30, published in 1813, contains many eyewitness accounts of British naval battles with French and American ships. It also includes coverage of a plague outbreak in Valetta (Malta), with descriptions of symptoms and prescribed medication, technical articles on a demonstration of torpedoes and on improvements to the storm compass used for navigation, and a biography of Sir Erasmus Gower, admiral and governor of Newfoundland.

Download or read book The Naval Chronicle Volume 23 January July 1810 written by James Stanier Clarke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 23 of the Naval Chronicle (1810) focuses on the unsuccessful Walcheren Campaign of 1809 and the capture of Guadeloupe.

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Download or read book The Naval Chronicle Volume 12 July December 1804 written by James Stanier Clarke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 12 of the Naval Chronicle contains intelligence reports and descriptions of British maritime activities in 1804.

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Download or read book British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail written by David Hepper and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-30 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This significant new reference book provides a complete list of the ships of the Royal Navy which were lost at sea in the age of sail. Arranged in chronological order, it includes outline details of each vessel lost and the circumstances of her loss. 1649 is the start date, which coincides with the execution of Charles I and that time when the Royal Navy entered a new phase as an instrument of state: the launch of the steam-powered and iron-hulled Warrior in 1860 effectively marks the end of the great era of the wooden-hulled sailing warship. Life at sea in the age of sail was a hazardous pursuit, and there were many reasons for a ship being lost. A correspondent to the Nautical Magazine in 1841 detailed some fifty reasons and causes, from being short of crew, abandonment without sufficient cause, the poor condition of a ship, incorrectness of charts, poor dead-reckoning as well as less obvious reasons such as ‘the presence of captains’ wives and other women.’ Navigational error, particularly before the chronometer allowed for the accurate calculation of longitude, was a common reason, while poor weather in the form of fog or gales was an obvious peril. So many ships suffered the melancholy fate of lonely disappearance – overwhelmed by storm and sea, and witnessed by none. Collisions and fire feature regularly as does, of course, loss to the enemy. Each entry includes details of the ship, its name and type, tonnage and dimensions, origin and place of build, the circumstances of the loss, the date and a list of the main references used. All this material is presented here in a single and highly accessible volume, and represents a major milestone both in naval research and publishing; it offers too a fund of fascinating and compelling stories of maritime misadventure. Praise for the author's previous work: ‘This volume is an amazing encyclopaedic, catalogue of British warships lost between 1920 and 1982 It is strongly recommended to historians, authors, researchers and all those with an interest in the history of the Royal Navy and the Second World War.’ -Scuttlebut Magazine

Download or read book The Campaign of Trafalgar 1805 written by Sir Julian Stafford Corbett, LLM. and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the many campaigns in the long history of Britain, naval and otherwise, there have been few more momentous than the campaign in the Mediterranean in 1804-5 culminating in the battle of Trafalgar. They spawned a national hero in the figure of heroic lord Nelson, one-armed and blind in one eye, dying at the moment of his greatest victory over a more numerous enemy. However, the story of the battle, much less the campaign, was more complex than the story of one man, however great. It is this web of sailings, counter-sailings, orders, alliances, courage and genius that Corbett elucidates with his great naval knowledge and lucid text. Sir Julian Corbett wrote this most important of studies, drawing on not only his comprehensive archive material at the Royal Naval college, but also important sources from French and Spanish sources. He was a prolific author and authority on British warfare, and more particularly the naval aspects, as well as a lecturer in history to the Royal Naval College. Author — Sir Julian Stafford Corbett, LLM. (1854-1922) Illustrations – 5 maps and plans.

Download or read book The Naval Chronicle Volume 11 January July 1804 written by James Stanier Clarke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 11 of the Naval Chronicle (1804) focuses on the report of the inquiry into the work of prize agents.

Download or read book The Naval Chronicle Volume 17 January July 1807 written by James Stanier Clarke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 17 of the Naval Chronicle (1807) reports naval actions and political events including the abolition of the slave trade.

Download or read book A Steady Hand written by Linda Groom and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2012 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some biographers are critical of John Hunter's leadership style as the Governor of Port Jackson. Others say he was a failure at sea. Linda Groom disagrees and claims that Hunter was an outstanding seaman whose mere survival as governor was an achievement for his time. Linda Groom is Curator of the National Library of Australia's Pictures Collection.

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