The views put forward by Corbett in this collection have now been partly discredited, but the collection itself remains of fundamental importance for the study of British naval tactics. It includes both Fighting Instructions in the strict sense, and various orders and memoranda explanatory of them.
This was the first of the Miscellany volumes and while it contains documents from the sixteenth century to the turn of the nineteenth century, the majority relate to the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Of the two sixteenth century documents, one relates to French warship signals and the other is a narrative of the Cadiz… Read Abstract »
This remarkable compilation includes both official and private correspondence and papers from a wide variety of sources both English and Dutch (the latter translated), giving an extremely detailed and complete view of all aspects of the war. The first volume extends to August 1652. The translations of many of the Dutch documents are unsatisfactory, and… Read Abstract »
This remarkable compilation includes both official and private correspondence and papers from a wide variety of sources both English and Dutch (the latter translated), giving an extremely detailed and complete view of all aspects of the war. The first volume extends to August 1652. The translations of many of the Dutch documents are unsatisfactory, and… Read Abstract »
This article presents a letter from Captain William Bligh to his wife, Elizabeth, written on 27 January 1800 and now in the collections ....
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This previously unpublished letter about the Dutch attack of 9-14 June 1667 is preserved at the National Maritime Museum as MS AGC/G/1. ....
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The bell of HMS Association, wrecked in the Scilly Isles disaster of 1707, held in a private collection in America. On 22 October 1707, ....
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These two letters, written nearly a year apart in July 1696 and 1697, are from Rear-Admiral John Benbow to Sir Robert Rich, a Lord of ....
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