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
Administrative / biographical background
Navigation: Practice
Record Details
Item reference: | NVP; ADM GB 0064 |
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Catalogue Section: | Manuscript volumes acquired singly by the Museum |
Level: | COLLECTION |
Extent: | Overall: 61 cm |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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- Sailing direction for the Mediterranean. (Manuscript) (NVP/1)
- Description of Hadley's Quadrant and the principles involved in its construction. (Manuscript) (NVP/2)
- Sailing directions, compiled from various authors covering all quarters of the globe. (Manuscript) (NVP/3)
- Sailing directions for the Mediterranean. (Manuscript) (NVP/4)
- Sailing directions, general, probably compiled by C.V. Penrose. (Manuscript) (NVP/5)
- Sailing directions for the Channel and The Mediterranean. (Manuscript) (NVP/6)
- Navigation notebook of Lieutenant Robert Scott of the ship DAVID SCOTT, East India Company. (Manuscript) (NVP/8)
- Notes on voyages with some navigational details. Compiler unknown. (Manuscript) (NVP/9)
- 'A Book of Drafts with Remarks, with Lattitude, Longitude of Places, of the Variation of the Compass, of Sands Shoals Soundings....' [etc] (Manuscript) (NVP/11)
- Manuscript charts of anchorages in the Mediterranean and some watercolour sketches, circa 1804. (Manuscript) (NVP/12)
- Record of temperature readings for 1780-83. (Manuscript) (NVP/13)
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