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A MANUAL OF NAVAL PRIZE LAW by Godffrey Lushington Published 1866 by Butterworths , London. This is the original publication not a modern photographic paperback reprint! The general form of this guide to a Commander of a belligerent Cruiser who may find himself in a perplexity in dealing with a suspected Vessel and, so far as possible, the phraseology was borrowed from the official Instructions furnished by the Admiralty to Commanders of Cruisers engaged in the suppression of the Slave-trade
Click on this image for Colin Pengelly's " The First Bellerophon " page at camberpete.co.uk. This book covers HMS Bellerophon's carreer in the Royal Navy from 1790 - 1836 and the commanders and men who served in her and shared in her exploits.
Click here to see details of Philip Aubrey's " The defeat of James Stuart's Armada 1692 " page at camberpete.co.uk !
Click this image to go to the edited autobiography of Landsman Hay
Click here to go to Suzanne J. Stark's " FEMALE TARS- women aboard ship in the age of sail " page at camberpete.co.uk !
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Click here to go to Alexander McKee's " The Queen's Corsair " page for more details of this book at camberpete.co.uk
L. A. Wilcox - ' Anson's Voyage ' illustrated by author: Anson's circumnavigation of the globe in the years 1740-1744 was recognised by his contemporaries as an extraordinary feat of seamanship. He returned with just one ship out of six, his flagship HMS Centurion, loaded with treasure captured from the Manilla Galleon which was loaded onto thirty-two wagons and paraded through the streets of London and taken to the Tower. This and other Royal Navy books for sale at camberpete.co.uk
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I SAILED WITH NELSON by Lieutenant George Samuel Parsons who joined the Royal Navy in 1795 at the age of eleven, and was an impressionable midshipman of thirteen at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent, which he describes in this book. Originally published as Nelsonian Reminiscences: Leaves from Memories Log - 1843.
THE AGE OF NELSON by G. J. Marcus: The 'Great War', as Englishmen of the nineteenth century called it, can be seen to have begun with the firing of the Brest shore battery on the sloop Childers and ended with Napoleon on the poop of the Bellerophon, bound for St. Helena. The years between—Jervis at St. Vincent, the naval mutinies of 1797, blockade, convoy, the strangling of the Emperor's 'Continental System,' Nelson at the Nile and Copenhagen, the Peninsular War, the War of 1812, and the Hundred Days—are limned unforgettably in these scrupulous yet inevitably stirring pages.
In this absorbing book, NELSON: A personal History, Christopher Hibbert recounts in detail the events of those years, from the morning when the small midshipman stood nervously on the dockyard at Chatham, wondering how to get aboard his ship and enter the strange wooden world of the Navy, until the long afternoon when, as Admiral, he lay dying in the dim light of the swaying lanterns below the Victory's waterline, while the cannon roared on the gun-decks above his head. We see Nelson ashore as well as at sea, as an attentive though frustrated officer on half-pay in East Anglia; in Naples as the passionate lover of Emma, the Cheshire blacksmith's daughter who had become the wife of the British envoy at the Neapolitan court; and at home at Merton Place in Surrey, playing with the adored little girl whom he could not acknowledge as his daughter.
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In ‘The Formative Years’ G. J. Marcus traces the development of our merchant and fighting fleet from the days of Chaucer's Shipman to the French Revolution. Sea power shattered the hopes of Philip of Spain and the Papacy and later gained and retained the carrying trade of the world, formerly enjoyed by the Dutch. Sea power of Great Britain-wielded by Pitt and Anson settled the fate of North America and India. In the American War of Independence our navy held out against severe odds, and on the restoration of peace, rapidly regained its former commanding position throughout the seven seas prepared for the final decisive struggle with France. NELSON by Roy Hattersley: Horatio Nelson, one of the greatest seamen of all times, is the authentic hero of British history. His three great victories — at the battles of the Nile, Copenhagen and Trafalgar — assured him of his country's gratitude : the manner in which they were won added glory to success. THE FLOATING REPUBLIC - An Account of the Mutinies at Spithead and the Nore in 1797 by G. E. MANWARING & BONAMY DOBRÉE: The naval mutiny of 1797 is the most astonishing recorded in ours, or perhaps any history; astonishing by its management rather than for its results, for other mutinies have been successful. First published in 1935 this is still recognised as the finest description of the events in that momentous year. Peter Padfield in his book Nelson’s War throws new and controversial light on the battle tactics of these famous actions to show just how unconventional they became. Fully illustrated, including paintings of the battle of Copenhagen that have never previously been published in this country, Nelson's War brings to life in enthralling detail the battles of the Golden Age of the Royal Navy. SAMUEL WALTERS, Lieutenant R.N. - His memoirs, edited, with an introduction and notes by C, NORTHCOTE PARKINSON: The daily journals and copies of Walters’ paintings are fascinating but it’s the notes and appendices by Northcote Parkinson that make this volume so worthwhile.
ENGLISH WARSHIPS by A. Guy Vercoe; the main features of warship design in the days of sail for the benefit of beginners in ship-modelling, and to indicate the pitfalls and inaccuracies likely to occur if they don't do a little preliminary inquiry and research.
Old Oak-William James: John Jervis Earl St. Vincent started his career by running away from school to join the navy, and by the time he died he had been Commander-in-Chief of the Channel and Mediterranean Fleets, and First Sea Lord at the Admiralty. He found the fleet corrupt and inefficient, he left it the most powerful single fighting force against Napoleon. He appointed Nelson as commander over the head of more senior officers.
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Professor Carlo M. Cipolla in his ' Guns and Sails in the early phase of European expansion argues that the simultaneous technological development of guns and sailing ships, and the fusing of the two into a weapon that swept all before the gun-carrying ocean-going sailing ship enabled Europe, a backwater, to expand and develope rapidly to dominate and subjugate most of the world in the period 1400-1700.
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MARITIME POWER and the Struggle for Freedom. Naval campaigns that shaped the modern world 1788 – 1851: Peter Padfield contrasts British power, based on trade and attuned to the needs of trade — individual initiative, freedom of information, and sound credit — with French power, based on conquest and centralized authority. He presents Napoleonic France in a radically new light as essentially regressive, Britain as better equipped for a long war and also, for better or worse, a herald of modern liberties.
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An illustrated page with links to many books relating to the Mutiny on the Bounty. The mutiny aboard HMS Bounty with Chistian Fletcher as the chief mutineer forced Lieutenant William Bligh into a small boat with loyal crew members - Bligh's navigational skill made it to safety. The Royal Navy made efforts to track down the guilty and sent the frigate HMS Pandora to bring back mutineers to England for trial but was wrecked with with some still chained below.
Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin's novel brings naval history alive. Admiral John Benbow fought the only battle in British history in which the captains of a fleet refused their commander's order to engage the enemy. This occurred in the West Indies in 1702, when Benbow in an engagement with the French was abandoned and betrayed by his officers.
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Captain Bennett first sets Trafalgar in the context of the world-wide naval struggle against Napoleon and, more particularly, in the campaign of which it was the culmination. However, like the noise and smoke of battle, legends have a habit of obscuring facts and, having embodied themselves in the popular imagination, are transcribed to the history books.
Click to go to " Log of the Centurion - Based on the original papers of Captain Philip Saumarez on board HMS Centurion, Lord Anson's flagship during his circumnavigation 1740-44 " by Leo Heaps.
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HEART OF OAK - A survey of British sea power in the Georgian era by G. J. Marcus: The years 1714 to 1830 saw the greates period of the sailing Navy of Britain. Heart of Oak deals with different aspects of Britain's naval strength: materials and ship-building ; strategical and tactical skill; seamanship and navigation; the personnel of the service, both officers and seamen; the intimate connection between seaborne commerce and sea power; and the human side of naval life on board and ashore, including seamen's songs and recreations. Based on sound and wide-ranging knowledge, but not encumbered with scholarly apparatus, this is a book which the general reader will enjoy, and from which the student and scholar can profit.
The British Sailor: a social history of the lower deck - Peter Kemp - This book deals with it all in detail, from the time of the Spanish Armada in 1588 to the outbreak of the 1914-18 war. It is based on deep research into contemporary documents and reports, and traces the gradual evolution of a social conscience in the Royal Navy.
The officers of the 'Silent Service', as a body, have hitherto had no biographer: but they have found one now in the Professor of History at Greenwich, the University of the Navy. England's Sea-Officers is the story of the Naval Profession, its origins, and its growth from earliest times to the present day.
A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE NAVY 1793-1815 - Michael Lewis; It was, in all its essentials, not only the Navy of Nelson, Collingwood, St. Vincent and Howe, but also that of Rodney, of Hawke, of Vernon, of Rooke and even of Blake. In 1864 it was well on the road to becoming the Navy of Fisher, of Jellicoe and of Cunningham: a force as forward-looking as its predecessor had been backward- looking.
 The Navy in Transition: a social history 1814-1864 - Michael Lewis; Its facts, and the anecdotes which illuminate those facts, are drawn from contemporary documents, ranging from Navy Lists and Admiralty Orders to the journals and recollections of the men concerned; the illustrations of ships and men are contemporary too.
John Gwyther has written an outstanding book on the first voyage of the redoubtable Captain Cook. The exciting stream of narrative, moving from port to port, from island to island, through chapters crowded with vivid and exciting incidents, with masterly descriptions of nature and of native customs, and of the natives' reaction to the first coming of the white men.
A Thirst for Glory: The Life of Admiral Sir Sidney Smith - Tom Pocock: Admiral Sir Sidney Smith liked to think of himself as a second Nelson. Smith and Nelson also shared the credit for changing the course of history by ending Napoleon Bonaparte's dream of eastern conquest: Nelson at the Battle of the Nile and Smith by his defence of Acre. 'The Young Nelson in the Americas' in which the author, Tom Pocock, states that the most exciting and dramatic passage of his American service has hitherto been strangely neglected — the ill-fated Nicaragua campaign. This was a daring scheme concocted by the Governor of Jamaica during the War of American Independence for cutting the Spanish American Empire in two and anticipating the Panama Canal by securing direct access to the Pacific. Remember Nelson: The Life of Captain Sir William Hoste by Tom Pocock. The climax of his professional career came in 1811 when, at the Battle of Lissa in the Adriatic, he won a brilliant victory over the French and their Venetian allies. This was followed by daring and spectacular attacks on the two great fortress-cities that are now Dubrovnik and Kotor in Yugoslavia, where his feats inspired some of the adventures that C. S. Forester attributed to Captain Hornblower. Guy de Téramond: La Guerre sur Mer, published in France in 1912, an illustrated children’s book in the series Pages d’Histoire of ‘Collection des livres en couleurs pour la jeunesse.’ Captain William Bligh, has become a symbol of the most monstrous cruelty—a man who flogged, starved and humiliated his crew because to do so gave him pleasure. One of the merits of this book - What Happened on the Bounty by Bengt Danielsson is that it corrects this sentimental bias and reveals Bligh as a seaman of genius, a brave and resourceful man, but one who lacked the gifts of perception and patience which would have won the cooperation of his crew.
Click this image to go to C. Northcote Parkinson's "The Trade Winds" Seamanship in the Age of Sail by John Harland and beautifully illustrated by Mark Myers is a modern, objective appraisal of the evidence, concerned with the actualities as much as the theory. The author's range of languages has enabled him to study virtually every manual published over a period of nearly four centuries. In order to explain even the most complex evolution clearly and concisely, over 350 line drawings were specially commissioned from Mark Myers
The Ship of the Line: Volume I; The Development of the Battlefleet 1650 -1850; Volume II; Design, Construction and fittings - Brian Lavery is undoubtedly Britain's leading authority on the sailing line-of-battle ship, having spent more than six years in research on this subject. He is one of a new generation of technical historians devoted to explaining why developments take place rather than merely describing technological change.
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SEAMAN GARNERAY - Voyages, Adventures et Combats. Ttranslator Roland Wilson gives an account of the first part of Garneray's years at sea and an impression of Garneray the man, as well as a general picture of the French republican navy.        
The Masting and Rigging of English Ships of War 1625-1860 by James Lees: By use of this book it will now be possible for model craftsmen throughout the world, in the present and future, to restore or make models correctly according to the historical features of the various periods. It will assist restorers of marine paintings in the difficult task of replacing obliterated rigging. as well as providing a handbook of technical information for the maritime and war historian. Sailing Ships of War 1400-1860 by Dr. Frank Howard: This book is a comprehensive survey of their technical development from 1400 to 1860, from the advent of the three-masted ship to the eclipse of naval sail. Incorporating much new information the book deals in detail with the hull design and construction, fittings, armament, masting, rigging and appearance of wooden warships.
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THE ANTHONY ROLL of Henry VIII's Navy - Here for the first time complete in print is the famous pictorial survey of Henry VIII's navy compiled in 1546 by Anthony, a clerk in the ordnance office. Originally comprising three rolls of vellum, the MS features paintings of each of the king's 58 ships, below which are set details of their guns_ shot. and related equipment.
HORATIO NELSON and the Naval Supremacy of England by W. Clark Russell with the collaboration of William H. Jaques, one of The Heroes of the Nations series edited by Evelyn Abbott. First published in 1890 this is the 1905 edition republished for the Trafalgar Centenary and the illustrated appendix includes descriptions of the class and types of ships, rating, tonnage, armament, and provides a source for the shift in the accepted location of Nelson’s embarkation to join H.M.S. Victory.

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