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Narrative of a voyage round the world, performed in Her Majesty's ship Sulphur, during the years 1836-1842, including details of the naval operations in China, from Dec 1840 to Nov 1841 Belcher, Edward,-Sir, 1843 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 094:910.4(100)"1836/1842"

Recueil de tables astronomiques / publiâe sous la direction de l'Acadâemie royale des sciences et belles-lettres de Prusse l'Acadâemie royale des sciences et belles-lettres de Prusse 1776. • RARE-BOOK • 4 copies available. 52(083.5):094

Founded by the East India Marine Society, 1799. Peabody Museum of Salem 1969. • PAMPHLET • 2 copies available. 069(26:744)

A voyage round the world, performed in the years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, by the Boussole and Astrolabe, under the command of J F G de la Perouse ... Galaup, Jean Francois 1799 • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(100)"1785/1788"

The description and use of the sliding rule, in the mensuration of wood, stone, bales etc, also, the description of the ship-carpenters sliding rule, and its use applied to the construction of masts, yards etc Mackay, Andrew 1799 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:681.332.2

Methodes analytiques pour la determination d'un arc du meridien Delambre, J.B.J. 1799 [An VII] • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 527.09:094

The slave trade debate : contemporary writings for and against /introduction by John Pinfold. At the height of the debate about the slave trade and its abolition in the 1780s and '90s, each side issued pamphlets in support of its position. This publication reproduces a selection of representative pamphlets encompassing the arguments put forward by each side. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8(42)"17/18"

Tables portatives de logarithmes, contenant les logarithmes des nombres, depuis 1 jusqu'áa 108,000 : les logarithmes des sinus et tangentes ... /par Francois Callet. Callet, Franðcois, 1795 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 519.66:094

Relacao do modo com que desempenhou o chefe de divisao Donald Campbell, a commissao de que o encarregou o Almirante Lord Nelson, na viagem ao porto de Tripoli, a fim de effeituar a faz entre o baxa daquella regencia e a coroa de Portugal 1799 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Nelson

Result of two series of experiments towards ascertaining the respective velocity of floating bodies, varying in form... Gore, Charles 1799 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:355.461

Nouveau code des prises, ou recueil des edits, declarations, lettres patentes, arrets, ordonnances ... sur la Course et l'administration des Prises, depuis 1400 jusqu'au mois de mai 1789 ... Lebeau, Sylvain 1799-1801. • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:341.362.12

The voyages and manifesto of William Fergusson, a surgeon of the East India Company 1731-1739 / edited by Derek L. Elliott. "This volume brings to publication for the first time the manuscript of William Fergusson, a Scottish ship's surgeon who sailed for the East India Company in the 1730s. Written in 1767, while in retirement, Fergusson's diaries are the memories of his youth spent travelling the world during his apprenticeship. They detail the four voyages he took, the first, a passage from Scotland to England with a lading in Ireland, and three others to the East, calling at ports in the Atlantic, southern Africa, Arabia, India, and Southeast Asia, before reaching as far as China. Almost nothing is known of Fergusson and none of his other writings are known to survive. Remaining evidence suggests that he was an average man of his class, who travelled the well-plied trade routes of European merchant capitalism. While many logbooks of these voyages survive, comparatively few accounts were written by the men who sailed them. Fewer still ever come to light. Fergusson's manuscript offers a rare new source on what were by then the relatively routine voyages of the East India Company's early trading network, providing a treasure trove of comments on the politics, economics, societies, and religious beliefs and practices he witnessed along the way. Originally titled 'Journals of my Voyages & Manifesto', the name suggests Fergusson's manuscript offers far more than the insights usually contained in contemporary travelogues. In his manifesto, readers will discover Fergusson's impassioned polemics on natural religion, devotional 'enthusiasm', just governance, all while he implores the principles of rationality and reason. It is truly a manifesto of Enlightenment thought. As such, it also provides a unique example of how those who sailed for the East India Company during the early modern era participated in a global intellectual exchange of ideas. Fergusson wrote his private memories in twenty-two small bound booklets, all of which have been transcribed and annotated to guide the reader. These are presented here along with a critical introduction that contextualises the complex eighteenth-century world into which Fergusson voyaged, including elements of his role as a ship's surgeon, the Indian Ocean trading and political environment, and the ideas of the Enlightenment he so passionately expressed. Researchers interested in the histories of ideas, medicine, early-modern colonialism, maritime merchant empires, as well as historians of Africa and Asia, will find much new information to explore within the pages of this volume"-- 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 061.22HAKLUYT

In the hurricane's eye : the genius of George Washington and the victory at Yorktown /Nathaniel Philbrick. "In the fall of 1780, after five frustrating years of war, George Washington had come to realize that the only way to defeat the British Empire was with the help of the French navy. But as he had learned after two years of trying, coordinating his army's movements with those of a fleet of warships based thousands of miles away was next to impossible. And then, on September 5, 1781, the impossible happened. Recognized today as one of the most important naval engagements in the history of the world, the Battle of the Chesapeake--fought without a single American ship--made the subsequent victory of the Americans at Yorktown a virtual inevitability. In a narrative that moves from Washington's headquarters on the Hudson River, to the wooded hillside in North Carolina where Nathanael Greene fought Lord Cornwallis to a vicious draw, to Lafayette's brilliant series of maneuvers across Tidewater Virginia, Philbrick details the epic and suspenseful year through to its triumphant conclusion. A riveting and wide-ranging story, full of dramatic, unexpected turns, In the Hurricane's Eye reveals that the fate of the American Revolution depended, in the end, on Washington and the sea."--Jacket flap. [2018] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1781"(755)

The principles of mechanics : designed for the use of students in the university /by James Wood. Wood, James, 1799. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 531:094

Bonaparte in Egypt "In a detailed study, elegantly written, Herold covers all aspects of Bonaparte's expedition: military, political, and cultural. It was a bold adventure, full of drama, topped and tailed by the extremes of total triumph and utter defeat. Although Bonaparte was victorious at the Battle of the Pyramids and occupied Cairo, his fleet was completely destroyed by Nelson at Abukir Bay and his ambition to conquer the Holy Land was frustrated at Acre. Despite these reverses, Bonaparte returned to France where he was greeted as a hero and seized political power in 1799. His attempt to take permanent control of Egypt and Syria for France was a critical stage on his road to power, and it is one of the most revealing episodes in his spectacular career."--Provided by the publisher. 1963 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.48"1798/1801"(62)

A new universal atlas, exhibiting all the empires, kingdoms, states, republics, etc, etc in the whole world ... from ... d'Anville and Robert ... including all the tracks and new discoveries of British circumnavigators, Biron, Wallis, Carteret, Captain James Cook, Vancouver, Perouse etc Kitchin, Thomas 1799 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(100)"17"

Biographical memoirs of Admiral Sir Charles Knowles 1st Baronet 1700-1777 : with memoir of his son, Admiral Sir Charles Henry Knowles Bt, KGCB This item was prepared for the 250th celebrations of the 1747 Siege of Fort at No. 4, subsequently named Charlestown. It consists of items relating to Admiral Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet taken from: the Naval Chronicles of 1799; the Mariners' Mirror (Russia 1771-1774); the Saturday Review of Jamaica 1928; the Pepperell Papers; and the Dictionary of National Biography of 1895. There is also a memoir of his son, Admiral Sir Charles Henry Knowles, 2nd Baronet, taken from Ralfe's Naval Biography of 1828 and the Dictionary of National Biography of 1895. 1997 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 92Knowles, Charles Henry

A narrative of the proceedings of the British fleet commanded by Admiral Sir John Jervis KB in the late action with the Spanish fleet on the fourteenth of February 1797, off Cape St Vincent's ... Bethune, John Drinkwater 1797 • RARE-FOLIO • 4 copies available. 094:355.49"1797"(469.6)

The last of the Arctic voyages : being a narrative of the expedition in HMS Assistance, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, CB, in search of Sir John Franklin, during the years 1852-53-54 Belcher, Edward,-Sir, 1855 • RARE-BOOK • 4 copies available. 623.82Assistance

A slaving voyage to Africa and Jamaica : the log of the Sandown, 1793-1794 /Bruce L. Mouser. "Captain Samuel Gamble recorded in his ship's log a record of a nearly failed slaving venture to Africa and Jamaica. It is one of the best first-hand narratives of the slave trade to survive. This book presents a faithfully transcribed and carefully annotated edition of Gamble's log, which provides a haunting perspective on slave trading at the end of the eighteenth century. Gamble was Captain of the British merchant Sandown. During 1793-1794, the ship embarked on a commercial venture from England to Upper Guinea in West Africa to buy slaves and to transport them for sale in Kingston, Jamaica. Gamble describes shipping at the beginning of the Anglo-French war in 1793, naval and nautical procedures for the English-African-West Indian trade, and the slave-trading patterns and institutions on the African coast and at Kingston, Jamaica. He recounts as well the beginnings and spread of a yellow fever epidemic that swept the Atlantic and crippled commerce on both sides of the ocean. Bruce L. Mouser's extensive annotations place Gamble's account in historical context and explain for the reader Gamble's observations of commerce, disease, and African peoples along the Upper Guinea coast."--Jacket. Ã2002. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 380.1/44/094

Anson : Royal Navy commander and statesman, 1697-1762 /Anthony Bruce "George Anson, Baron Anson (1697-1762), circumnavigator and First Lord of the Admiralty, entered the Royal Navy in 1712 and progressed rapidly, achieving his first command in 1722. He benefited from the patronage of his uncle Thomas Parker, later the Earl of Macclesfield, who served as Lord Chief Justice and Lord Chancellor until his impeachment for fraud in 1725. Anson first saw action at the Battle of Cape Passaro (1718) under Admiral Sir George Byng but most of his early career was spent as captain of the station ship based at Charleston, South Carolina. In 1737 he was appointed captain of the 60-gun Centurion and sent on patrol to West Africa and the Caribbean. It was in this ship that he circumnavigated the globe (1740-1744) during the war with Spain. Ordered to attack the Pacific coast of Spanish South America, the expedition almost ended in disaster when half of Anson's squadron disappeared as it encountered 'huge deep, hollow seas' during the passage around Cape Horn. Despite further heavy losses, Anson was able to carry out a limited number of raids against coastal targets, but his capture of the Spanish treasure galleon Nuestra Seänora de Covadonga off the Philippines was a real victory that secured his reputation (and wealth). On his return Anson, welcomed as a national hero, soon revealed his political ambitions: he joined the opposition Whigs, was elected MP for Hedon and appointed to the Admiralty Board. Although he entered the Board while still a captain, he secured rapid promotion to Rear-Admiral, Vice-Admiral and then Admiral of the Fleet. Anson returned to sea in command of the Western Squadron in 1746-1747 and his notable victory against the French at the Battle of Cape Finisterre was a rare example of a British naval success after seven years of war. Anson, who was then raised to the peerage, returned to the Admiralty Board, working with the Duke of Bedford as First Lord and with Lord Sandwich on a series of naval reforms, which included ending political interference in courts-martial, introducing compulsory retirement, innovations in ship design and the formation of the Royal Marines under Admiralty control. In 1751, Anson succeeded Lord Sandwich as First Lord of the Admiralty and served until his death in 1762 (except for one brief interruption in 1756-1757 following the loss of Minorca). The reform programme continued, but his main priority on returning to office (and the Cabinet) in the Pitt-Newcastle coalition was the Seven Years War: its strategic direction, planning operations and preparing naval forces. Although he died shortly before the conflict ended, Pitt later said of Anson: 'to his wisdom, to his experience the nation owes the glorious success of the last war.' Horace Walpole inevitably took a more critical view: 'Lord Anson was reserved and proud, and so ignorant of the world, that Sir Charles Williams said he had been round it, but never in it.' Anson's earlier biographers have focused on the story of the circumnavigation, which has largely defined his reputation, as well as his victories at sea. However, other aspects of his career, particularly his roles as a naval reformer and wartime strategist, deserve to be given greater weight in reassessing his position as a leading figure in British naval history. As one commentator has pointed out, 'there is an increasing cultural valuation of administrative skills that allows an Anson to be remembered in the same arena with, but still distinctly from, a Nelson. Whereas Horatio Nelson is certainly the most well-known and enduring example of a naval hero, others followed different paths to success during their lifetimes.'"--Provided by the publisher. 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 941.07092

Thermometrical navigation : being a series of experiments and observations, tending to prove, that by ascertaining the relative heat of the sea-water from time to time, the passage of a ship through the Gulph Stream, and from deep water into soundings, may be discovered in time to avoid danger ... Williams, Jonathan 1799 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:527.6(27)

Lost at sea : true stories of disaster The author provides accounts of shipping disasters arising from a wide range of circumstances and involving many different types of ship. Those featured include the sinking of HMS Royal George in 1782 and the Empress of Ireland in 1914 and losses arising from fire on board, such as the Lakonia in 1963 and the Morro Castle in 1934. Other accounts cover Shackleton's Endurance and the loss of ships reportedly carrying treasure such as the Grosvenor in 1782, the Lutine in 1799, the Tobermory Galleon wrecked as part of the Spanish Armada fleet in 1588 and HMS Hampshire in 1916. The author also explores losses arising from significant mutinies at sea including those at Spithead and The Nore in 1797, the Kiel and Black Sea mutinies in 1918 and 1919 respectively and the Invergordon mutiny in 1931. Finally, the author considers losses arising from faulty design focusing on the stories of HMS Captain, HMS Victoria and the Navy K class of submarine. 1991 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3

History of women 1996 • MICROFILM • 2 copies available. 528.282-055.2

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