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The sailing and fighting instructions or signals as they are observed in the Royal Navy of Great Britain.
Greenwood, Jonathan.Date: 1715?]- Books
Reports of the Committee upon the Physiology of Vision. 12, Colour vision requirements in the Royal Navy.
Medical Research Council (Great Britain). Committee on the Physiology of Vision.Date: 1933- Books
1. A report upon the seasonal outbreak of cerebro-spinal fever in the Navy at Portsmouth, 1916-1917. 2. The treatment of cerebro-spinal meningitis by anti-meningococcus serum at the Royal Naval Hospital, Hasler, 1915-16-17.
Date: 1918- Books
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The sailor's companion, and merchantman's convoy. Shewing the military power of the Lord High-Admiral, and the duty and conduct of all superior and inferior officers of the Royal Navy of Great Britain. Also the state of the Navy in the year 973, the reign of King Edgar, and in 1171, King Henry the second's time, who fitted out a fleet of 400 sail to reduce Ireland, with the success of that expedition: also an account of the fleets that were fitted out by the succeeding kings; and a list of the navy as it stood on the first day of July, 1740, and 1756. Likewise a dissertation on the honour of the flag; and on the British right to the sovereignty of the seas: with seasonable remarks in relation to the fishery on the coasts, being monopoliz'd by foreigners: together with several useful and curious particulars mention'd in the table annex'd. By J. Cowley. To this second edition is added, a list of the Admiralty and of the Royal Navy 1756.
Cowley, J. (John).Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]- Books
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Plans for increasing the naval force of Great Britain by rendering the service a more desirable object to officers and seamen, in which the following classes are particularly considered: masters and commanders, masters', mates, midshipmen, and able seamen. Also some hints offered towards their better establishment. Addressed to the Right Honourable William Pitt. By Richard Clarke, M.D. surgeon in the Royal Navy.
Clarke, Richard, M.D.Date: MDCCXCV. [1795]