Colin White was director of the Royal Naval Museum and one of Britain’s leading experts on Admiral Horatio Nelson and the Battle of Trafalgar.

His published works include:

• Victoria’s navy: the end of the sailing navy. Havant, 1981.
• The Royal Navy in peace and war. Pitkin Pictorials, 1989.
• Victoria’s navy: the heyday of steam. Emsworth, 1983.
• HMS Victory. Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1994.
• Nelson’s last walk. Nelson Society, 1996.
• The Nelson companion. Stroud: Sutton, 1995; Stroud: Royal Naval Museum Publications [in association with] Sutton, 2005.
• The battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797. Shelton: The 1805 Club, 1997.
• 1797: Nelson’s year of destiny: Cape St. Vincent and Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Stroud: Sutton, 1998; Paperback edition, Stroud: Sutton Pub., 2006.
• The Nelson Encyclopaedia. London: Chatham in association with the Royal Naval Museum, 2002.
• Nelson. Pitkin Biographical Guide. Hampshire: Jarrold Publishing, 2003.
• Nelson: the New Letters. Woodbridge: Boydell Press in association with the National Maritime Museum, 2005.
• Nelson: the Admiral. Stroud: Sutton, 2005.
• The Trafalgar Captains: Their Lives and Memorials. Colin White and the 1805 Club. London: Chatham, 2005.

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