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Minutes of the proceedings at the trial of Vice-Admiral Griffin. At a court-martial, held on Board his Majesty's Ship Somerset at Chatham, on Monday, December 3, 1750; for an enquiry into his conduct, while he commanded his Majesty's Ships in the East-Indies, in the year 1748. Taken in short-hand, by Mr. Tho. Cook, Attorney at Law.
Griffin, Thomas, -1771.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCLI. [1751]- Books
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A voyage round the world, in the years M,DCC,XL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, Esq; Late Lord Anson, Commander in chief of a Squadron of his majesty's Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the South Seas. Compiled from his papers and materials, by Richard Walter, M. A. Chaplain of the Ship the Centurion, in that Expedition. ...
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762.Date: M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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A voyage round the world, in the years M,DCC,XL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, Esq; Late Lord Anson, Commander in Chief of a Squadron of his Majesty's Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the South Seas: Compiled from his papers and materials. By Richard Walter, M. A. Chaplain of the Ship the Centurion, in that Expedition. ...
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762.Date: 1777- Books
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A voyage round the world, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. by George Anson, Esq; now Lord Anson, Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the South-Seas. Compiled from his papers and materials, by Richard Walter, M. A. Chaplain of his Majesty's Ship the Centurion, in that Expedition. Illustrated with forty-two copper-plates.
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762.Date: MDCCXLIX. [1749]- Books
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A voyage round the world, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, Esq; Now Lord Anson, Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the South-Seas. Compiled from his papers and materials, by Richard Walter, M. A. Chaplain of His Majesty's Ship the Centurion, in that Expedition. With charts of the Southern Part of South America, of Part of the Pacific Ocean, and of the Track of the Centurion round the World.
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762.Date: MDCCXLIX. [1749]- Books
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Plain trigonometry rendered easy and familiar, by calculations in arithmetick only: With Its Application and Use In ascertaining all Kinds of Heights, Depths, and Distances, In The Heavens, as well as on the Earth and Seas; Whether Of Towers, Forts, Trees, Pyramids, Columns, Wells, Ships, Hills, Clouds, Thunder and Lightning, Atmosphere, Sun, Moon, Mountains in the Moon, Shadows of Earth and Moon, Beginning and End of Eclipses, &c. In which is also shewn, A Curious Trigonometrical Method of discovering the Places where Bees hive in large Woods, in order to obtain, more readily, the salutary Produce of those little Insects. By the Rev. Mr. Turner, later of Magdalen-Hall, Oxford, Author of The View of the Earth;-View of the Heavens;-System of Gauging; and Chronologer Perpetual.
Turner, R. (Richard), 1723 or 1724-1791.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Books
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A natural and historical account of the islands of Scilly; describing their situation, number, extent, Soil, Culture, Produce, Rarities, Towns, Fortifications, Trade, Manufacture, Inhabitants. Their government, laws, customs, Grants, Records, and Antiquities. The Importance of those Islands to the British Trade and Navigation; the Improvements they are capable of; and Directions for all Ships to avoid the Dangers of their Rocks. Illustrated with a new and correct draught of those isles from an actual Survey, in the Year 1744, including the neighbouring Seas, and Sea-Coasts, next the Land's End of Cornwall. To which are added, The Tradition of a Tract of Land, called Lioness, devoured by the Sea, formerly joining those Isles and Cornwall. Of the Cause, Rise, and Disappearance of some Islands. And, lastly, a general account of Cornwall. By Robert Heath, an Officer of his Majesty's Forces, some Time in Garrison, at Scilly.
Heath, Robert, -1779.Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
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The universal navigator; or, A Comprehensive Treatise of navigation; containing, I. The most useful Problems in Geometry, Measuring of Plank, Timber Bales, Boxes, and Tunnage of Ships. II. Trigonometry with its application to the taking of Heights and Distances, accessible and inaccessible. III. Navigation, (viz.) Plain Sailing, Traverse Sailing, Mercator, Middle Latitude, and Parallel Sailing, with all the several examples wrought Geometrically, Trignometrically, by Logarithms, Arithmetically, by Natural Sines and Tangents, Instrumentally, and by Tables of Latitude and Departure. To which is annexed a curious Collection of Questions to exercise all the above kind of Sailing, with a large and correct Table of Difference of Latitude and Departure, and Meridional parts. Also a Table of Latitude and Longitude of Places. IV. Great Circle Sailing, with a curious Collection of Questions applied thereto, several of which have never appeared in any Treatise of Navigation extant. Oblique Sailing, Turning to Windward, Sailing in Currents, with a Collection of Questions both curious, useful, and entertaining, to exercise the same. V. The Gregorian Calender, shewing the best method of finding the Prime-Epact, Moon's age, time of High Water, with a large Tide-Table, alphabetically digested, the manner of working Observations, the best Method of finding the variation of the Compass. To keep a Sea Journal in the best approved method, both in Merchant's Ships and the Royal Navy, also to correct the Dead Reckoning by a good Observation, by the easiest and best approved Method, illustrated with full, proper, and practical examples of the same, together with all useful Astronomical Tables, viz. the Sun's Declination, a Table of Logarithms, of Nat. and Artificial Sines and Tangents, with a curious collection of Astronomical Problems useful in taking Observations at any time of the Day, or by two Observations, and having the time between them, without regarding the Hour; several of them have not appeared in any other Author. With an appendix, shewing how to work all the cases in navigation by the pen arithmetically, without Books, Tables, or Instruments. By William Chambers, Teacher of the Mathematics.
Chambers, William, teacher of the mathematics.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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A voyage round the world, in the years 1740, 41, 42, 43, 44. By George Anson, Esq. Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the South-Seas. Compiled from papers and other materials of the Right Honorable George, Lord Anson, and published under his Direction. By Richard Walter, M. A. Chaplain of his Majesty's Ship the Centurion, in that Expedition.
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762.Date: M,DCC,XC. [1790]- Books
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A voyage round the world, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, Esq; Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the South-Seas. Compiled from papers and other materials of the Right Honourable George Lord Anson, and published under His Direction. By Richard Walter, M. A. Chaplain of His Majesty's Ship the Centurion, in that Expedition.
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762.Date: M,DCC,LXXIII. [1773]- Books
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[A] voyage round the world, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, Esq; Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the South-Seas. Compiled from papers and other materials of the Right Honourable George Lord Anson, and published under his direction. By Richard Walter, M. A. Chaplain of his Majesty's Ship the Centurion, in that Expedition.
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762.Date: MDCCXLVIII. [1748]- Books
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A voyage round the world, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, Esq; Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the South-Seas. Compiled from papers and other materials of the Right Honourable George Lord Anson, and published under his direction, by Richard Walter, M. A. Chaplain of his Majesty's Ship the Centurion, in that Expedition. Illustrated with forty-two copper-plates.
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762.Date: MDCCXLVIII. [1748]- Books
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A voyage round the world, in the year MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, Esq; Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the South-Seas. Compiled from papers and other materials of the Right Honourable George Lord Anson, and published under his direction. By Richard Walter, M. A. Chaplain of his Majesty's Ship the Centurion, in that Expedition. The Seventh Edition. Illustrated with Charts, Views, &c.
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762.Date: MDCCXLVIII. [1748]- Books
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A Visible display of divine providence; or, the journal of a captured missionary, designated to the southern Pacific Ocean, in the second voyage of the ship Duff, commanded by Captain Thomas Robson, captured by Le Grand Buonaparte, off cape frio; including every remarkable occurrence which took place on board the Ships Duff, Le Grand Buonaparte, De Pacquatio, Postillibio, De Amerique, Amazona, and Meduza, and in the Province of Paraguay, Spanish South America; and at Portugal, on the return home, in the years 1798 and 1799. By William Gregory, one of the missionaries. With extracts compiled from the journals of Messrs. Rev. Peter Levesque, Rev. John Hill, James Jones, John Levesque, and other missionaries captured in the Duff.
Gregory, William, active 1800.Date: [1800]- Books
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A voyage round the world, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, Esq; Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the South-Seas. Compiled from papers and other materials of the Right Honourable George Lord Anson, and published under his direction. By Richard Walter, M. A. Chaplain of his Majesty's Ship the Centurion, in that Expedition. The Third Edition. With Charts of the Southern Part of South America, of Part of the Pacific Ocean, and of the Track of the Centurion round the World.
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762.Date: MDCCXLVIII. [1748]- Books
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Proposal for a publick journal, to find out, the main reason, of many great losses by sea-damage extraordinary, to Merchant's Dry Goods in Voyages, and of the total Loss, of Merchants Goods, and the Lives of many Marriners, and Passengers, by the Foundring of Ships, and Vessels, in Ordinary Storms, and in Common Seas and Weather: And also to Explain, the Case of some Ships and Vessels, and how they are taken by the Enemy, in time of War, viz.
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Travels into several remote nations of the world. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships. In four parts. Part I. A Voyage to Lilliput. Part II. A Voyage to Brobdingnag. Part III. A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan. Part IV. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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A treatise on practical seamanship; with hints and remarks relating thereto: Designed to contribute something towards fixing rules upon Philosophical and Rational principles; to Make Ships, and the management of them; and also navigation, in general, more perfect, and Consequently less dangerous and destructive to health, lives, and property. By William Hutchinson, mariner, and dock master, at Liverpool
Hutchinson, William, 1715-1801.Date: 1777- Books
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The whole trial and defence of Richard Parker, president of the delegates, for Mutiny, &c. On board the Sandwich, and others of His Majesty's Ships, at the Nore, In May, 1797. Before a Court Martial, held on board the Neptune, of 98 Guns, Laying off Greenhithe, near Gravesend, On Thursday, 22d of June, 1797, and following Days.
Parker, Richard, 1764?-1797.Date: [1797]- Books
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The seaman's medical advocate: or, an attempt to show that five thousand seamen are, annually, during war, lost to the British nation, in the West-India Merchants' Service, and on-board Ships of War on the West-India Station, through the yellow fever, And other Diseases and Means, from Causes which, it is conceived, are chiefly to be obviated, and unconnected with the Misfortunes of War or Dangers of the Seas. Illustrated by cases and facts. Most respectfully submitted to the Consideration of The British Senate; The Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty; The Admirals of Fleets, and the Commanders of Ships of War, on the West-India Station; The West-India Merchants; And the Commanders of West-India Merchantmen. By Elliot Arthy, surgeon, In the African and West-India Merchants' Service.
Arthy, Elliot, 1765-Date: 1798- Books
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The whole trial and defence of Richard Parker, Price Six-Pence. President of the delegates, for Mutiny, &c. On board the Sandwich, and others of His Majesty's Ships, at the Nore, In May, 1797. Before a Court Martial, held on board the Neptune, of 98 Guns, Laying off Greenhithe, near Gravesend, On Thursday, 22d of June, 1797, and following Days. Taken in short-hand.
Parker, Richard, 1764?-1797.Date: [1797]- Books
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The original astronomical observations, made in the course of a voyage towards the south pole, and round the world, In his Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the years MDCCLXXII, MDCCLXXIII, MDCCLXXIV, and MDCCLXXV, by William Wales, F. R. S. Master of the Royal Mathematical School in Christ's Hospital; and Mr. William Bayly, Late Assistant at the Royal Observatory. Published by order of the Board of Longitude, at the Expence of which the Observations were made.
Wales, William, 1734?-1796.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
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Sketchley's Bristol directory; including Clifton, Bedminster, and the out-parishes of St. James and St. Philip. Containing I. An alphabetical List of the Merchants, Tradesmen, Manufacturers, Captains of Ships, Custom-House and Excise Officers; and every other Person of Note in Bristol and its Environs. II. A separate List of the Merchants and Bankers. III. A short Account of Bristol and its Waters. IV. A Calculation of the Number of Houses and Inhabitants in Bristol, as well as the Number of Inhabitants in London, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Liverpool, Birmingham, Norwich, Leeds, and Shrewsbury V. The public Buildings, Offices, &c. and their Situation. VI. A List of the Corporation of Bristol. Vii. Directions for Travellers, &c. when to pass over at Aust and New Passages, between England and Wales; and the Prices of Goods, Cattle, and Passengers, going over at both Passages. Viii. A Broad-Sheet List of Carriers, Stage-Coaches, Diligences, Ships, Sloops, Trows, and other Coasting Vessels, coming into and going out from the City of Bristol; where the Masters are to be found, and Time of coming in and going out. IX. A perpetual Almanack, by which may be found the Day of the Month and Week for ever. With a copper-plate view of the Exchange. To be continued annually.
Sketchley, James.Date: [1775?]- Books
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The ship-Builder's assistant; or, marine architecture. Containing I. Decimals, the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots, also Geometry and Mensuration: With Rules for finding the Content of Plank and Timber, also the Tunnage of Ships, illustrated by proper Examples. II. Observations on the nature and value of timber, and how to procure it in the necessary Forms for Shipbuilding. III. The methods of drawing plans of ships, and moulding their Timbers; with the practical Rules to be observed in building the Hulls of different Ships: To which is added, the Scantling or Dimension of Ships Timbers. IV. Directions for making masts and yards in just proportion to the ship, and to each other. Also Tables of the Weights and Sizes of Anchors and Cables, according to the New Establishment. V. The boatswains art: Shewing the Method of finding the Length and Thickness of every Rope. Also Cable and Cordage Tables, shewing by Inspection the Weight of any Rope. With Directions for Cutting out Sails. The whole revised, corrected, and illustrated with many copper-plates. By William Sutherland, Shipwright and Mariner.
Sutherland, William, active 1878.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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The ship-Builder's assistant; or, marine architecture. Containing I. The method of extracting the square and cube roots, geometry and mensuration: Wherein all the Rules necessary for measuring Plank, Timber, and finding the Tunnage of Ships, are laid down in a very plain and conspicuous Manner; and illustrated by proper Examples. II. Observations on the nature and value of timber; with a New Method of procuring it in the necessary Forms for Ship-Building. III. The method of drawing the plans of ships, and moulding their Timbers; together with all the practical Rules necessary to be observed in Building the Hulls of all Sorts of Ships. To which is added the Scantling or Mensuration of Ships Timbers. IV. Direction for making the masts and yards of a just proportion to the ship, and also to one another, both with regard to Length and Thickness. With Tables of the Weights and Sizes of Anchors and Cables, according to the New Establishment. V. The boatswains art: Shewing the Method of finding exactly the Length and Thickness of every Rope; Also Cable and Cordage Tables, shewing by Inspection the Weight of any Rope, whose Length and Thickness are given. With some Directions for Cutting out Sails. The Whole illustrated with Figures and Draughts, Engraven on Copper Plates. By William Sutherland, Shipwright and Mariner.
Sutherland, William, active 1878.Date: 1766