Volume 40, The Naval Miscellany Vol.II
ed. Sir J.K. Laughton

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Contents

The contents (edited by Laughton unless otherwise indicated) are as follows:

R.G. Marsden, 'The Voyage of the Barbara to Brazil, Anno 1540' - An early case of English piracy against the Spaniards.

Alan Moore, 'The Sea Scene from the Complaynt of Scotlande' - A passage describing a ship getting under way, taken from a work in Scots printed in 1549

J .L. Kingsford, 'The taking of the Madre de Dios, Anno 1592'

C.H. Firth, , A Narrative of the Battle of Santa Cruz [1657], written by Sir Richard Stayner, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet'.

'Extracts from a Commissioner's Note Book, Annis 1691-1694' [A Commissioner of the Navy, namely the Controller Sir Richard Haddock; it deals with strategy, administration and operations, including Lord Nottingham 's diary of the year 1692].

T.G. Carter, 'The Journal of M. de Lage de Cueilly, Captain in the Spanish Navy, during the Campaign of 1744' .[including the Battle of Toulon]. The editor accepts the writer’s claim to have been in command of a Spanish warship, which Spanish authorities deny

Sale of Dead Man's Effects on board H.M. Ship Gloucester, 1750'

'The Mutiny at the Nore: Letter from James Watson to Admiral Robert Digby'

Sir T.S. Jackson, 'From the Letter Books of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Thompson'. [Correspondence of Thompson and St. Vincent, 1796-1801, and other matter]

'Orders by Sir John Jervis'. [Tactical orders, and one letter, of 1796-7]

Some Letters of Lord St. Vincent' .[1800-1801]

'Operations on the Coast of Egypt, 1801'

'The Memoirs of Captain George Pringle, 1795-1809'. [In various frigates, 1801-08]

'The pedigree of the naval Duncans’

'Operations in the Scheldt [1809]: Letter from Captain C.W. Boys to his Brother' ,

Frustration of the Plan for the Escape of Napoleon Bonaparte from Bordeaux in July 1815'

'Extract from the Journal of Admiral B.W. Page'. [Brief anecdotes]

Admiral Sir George Elliot, "'Well done, Phaeton!" [An incident in the 1850s]

Further Reading

Extracts