Excerpt from The Naval Chronicle, Vol. 3: From January to July, 1800 French Ship of 84 Guns wi. Means proposed to save the Lives of Mariners when wrecked on uni

The Naval Chronicle, published in 40 volumes between 1799 and 1818, is a key source for British maritime and military history. This reissue is the first complet

Contains a general and biographical history of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, with a variety of original papers on nautical subjects, under the guidance