Pilot guides - Great Britain - Early works to 1800
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Steel's original and correct list of the Royal Navy, improved To which are added their stations, and a list of the ships lost or destroyed since the commencement of the war, with their commanders. Likewise a list of the enemies ships taken or destroyed since the commencement of the war. With lists of the lords of the admiralty, commissioners of the navy and victualling, and of the other offices in the naval department, and the navy-agents. Corrected to May 31, 1782, and to be continued monthly, price six-pence.
Royal NavyDate: [1782]- E-books
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Great-Britain's coasting pilot In two parts. Being a new and exact survey of the sea-coast of England and Scotland, from the River of Thames to the Westward and Northward; with the islands of Scilly, and from thence to Carlisle: likewise the islands of Orkney and Shetland, describing all the harbours, rivers, bays, roads, rocks, sands, buoys, beacons, sea-marks depths of water, latitude, bearings and distances from place to place; the setting and flowing of the tides; with directions for the knowing of any place, and how to harbour a ship in the same with safety. With directions for coming into the channel between England and France. By Captain Greenvile Collins; hydrographer in ordinary to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.
Collins, Greenvile, fl. 1669-1698.Date: M,DCC,LXVII. [1767]- E-books
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The New British channel pilot , Containing sailing directions from London-Bridge to Liverpool, and from Ostend to Brest; also for the coast of Ireland, from the Tuskar Rock of Limerick: describing the capes, head-lands, bays, roads, harbours, rivers, rocks, sands, shoals, depth of water, light houses, &c. &c. &c. Compiled from the late surveys made by order of the elder brethren of the Trinity-House, Admiral Macbride, Mr. Mackenzie, and Mr. Samuel Clements, pilot to His Majesty. By Captain John Stephenson, assisted by many experienced pilots, masters in the Royal Navy, and coasters.
Date: 1799