Navigation: Practice

This class consists of volumes of sailing directions, navigational notes and coastline sketches, seventeenth to twentieth centuries. The earliest volume is French, 'Journal en forme de Borthlan de la campagne des galeres au voyage d'Alger', 1682, but the majority of the items date from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. They include a description of Hadley's quadrant, ca.1770; sailing directions for the Mediterranean, 1798, 1830; a nautical description of the south coast of England, 1805 to 1808, compiled by Graeme Spence (1758-1812) from Murdoch Mackenzie's surveys; and a sketchbook of Nelson'sanchorages in the Mediterranean, 1804. There are also twentieth-century volumes, one of which is the current angle and distance tables, 1911.

Administrative / biographical background
Navigation: Practice

Record Details

Item reference: NVP; ADM GB 0064
Catalogue Section: Manuscript volumes acquired singly by the Museum
Level: COLLECTION
Extent: Overall: 61 cm
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London