The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle for 1863

The 1863 Nautical Magazine features South-East Asia and Australia, and reports progress on the Suez Canal and the transatlantic cable.

9781108054546, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 March 2013

716 pages, 4 b/w illus. 6 maps
21.6 x 14 x 4 cm, 0.9 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 1863 volume contains further instalments of the 1862 features on South-East Asia and Australia, as well as reports from Japan. It describes the Suez Canal works, and de Lesseps' 'beautifully organised' establishment with 'workshops and steam appliances on a very large scale', and notes that 'the great question of an Atlantic electric cable appears to be again revived', with Captain R. Hoskyn now in charge. It also reproduces the presidential address of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, which mentions recent progress in the field of railways and steamships, and the work of Lyell and Darwin.

Contents of volume for 1863
1. January 1863
2. February 1863
3. March 1863
4. April 1863
5. May 1863
6. June 1863
7. July 1863
8. August 1863
9. September 1863
10. October 1863
11. November 1863
12. December 1863
Index to volume for 1863
Lights.

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