Contents
1 The Spanish Armada
Documents in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Edited by G.P.B.Naish pp. 1-83
The first section contains eleven Spanish documents, some signed with Philip the Second’s monogram; the second is an Italian narrative of the Armada campaign, written by a Florentine long resident in England, Petruccio Ubaldino; the third is a song in English, supposed to have been written by Queen Elizabeth ‘after the scattering of the Spanish Navy’.
2 The Journal of John Weale, 1654-1656
British Library Sloane Mss 1431
Edited by Rev. J.R.Powell pp. 85-162
A detailed journal recounting Blake’s two voyages in the Mediterranean (see also The Letters and Papers of Robert Blake Vol. 36 (1937), also edited by Rev. Powell)
3 Boscawen’s Letters to his Wife
In possession of Lord Falmouth
Edited by Peter K. Kemp pp. 169-254
Written between March 1755 and September 1756, the smaller number are from North America in 1755, while those of 1756 are from the Channel.
4 The Reminiscences of Lieutenant Malmskold, 1756-1763
Original in ‘the Swedish Archives’
Translated and edited by Dr. R.C.Anderson pp. 257-288
Lieutenant Malmskold of the Swedish Navy served in the French Navy between 1756 and 1763.
5 Prince William and Lieutenant Schomberg 1787-1788
From the Hood papers, National Maritime Museum
Edited by B. Mcl. Ranft pp. 268-300
Prince William Henry, captain of the Pegasus in the West Indies, was in constant dispute with his first lieutenant, Isaac Schomberg. The situation was not handled well by the young senior naval officer on the Leeward Islands station, Captain Horatio Nelson.
6 The Log of the Guardian, 1789-1790
Document in the possession of the Riou Family
Edited by Ludovic Kennedy pp. 296-358
Lieutenant Edward Riou was given command of the Guardian on a Commission to take out supplies to the newly established settlement in New South Wales. South-east of the Cape of Good Hope the ship struck an iceberg and she was brought to Table Bay with the greatest difficulty after nearly two months.
7 Corsica, 1794
British Library and National Archives
Edited by Admiral J.H.Godfrey pp.359-422
Over a hundred letters, mainly, but not exclusively, between Hood and Nelson during the operations to secure Corsica.
8 Congreve’s Rockets, 1805-6
From the Stowe-Grenville collection in the Huntington Library, San Marino and the Keith papers in the National Maritime Museum Edited by Christopher Lloyd and Hardin Craig Jnr pp.423-468
Fifty letters between politicians and naval officers concerning the introduction of Congeve’s rockets.
9 Letters of Lord St. Vincent to Thomas Grenville, 1806-1807
Stowe-Grenville collection in the Huntington Library, San Marino
Edited by Hardin Craig Jnr pp. 469-493
Thirty letters from St Vincent on various subjects to Thomas Grenville, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1806-7
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