The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle for 1845

The Nautical Magazine for 1845 features articles on China, seamen's welfare and the Franklin expedition to the North-West Passage.

9781108054409, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

764 pages, 11 b/w illus. 1 map
21.6 x 14 x 4.3 cm, 0.96 kg

The Nautical Magazine first appeared in 1832, and was published monthly well into the twenty-first century. It covers a wide range of subjects, including navigation, meteorology, technology and safety. An important resource for maritime historians, it also includes reports on military and scientific expeditions and on current affairs. The 1845 volume has a strong focus on merchant shipping, especially the welfare of merchant seamen and their families. China also receives significant coverage, including a serialised description of Shanghai. Other topics covered include international action against the slave trade and the 'lamentable failure' of the season's potato crop, which heralded Ireland's Great Famine, as well as the usual Navy reports. This volume reprints 'by request' several instalments of 'a sailor's advice to his son' from the 1833 volume, and also describes the departure in June of the ill-fated Franklin expedition, whose consequences were to dominate the journal for many years.

Contents to volume for 1845
1. January 1845
2. February 1845
3. March 1845
4. April 1845
5. May 1845
6. June 1845
7. July 1845
8. August 1845
9. September 1845
10. October 1845
11. November 1845
12. December 1845
Index
List of plates
List of engravings on wood.

Subject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH]