The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle for 1864

The 1861 Nautical Magazine focuses especially on Japan, but includes articles on British ports and statistics on lifeboats and wrecks.

9781108054928, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 March 2013

716 pages, 14 b/w illus. 1 map
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 1864 volume has a strong Asian focus, devoting extensive coverage to Japan. As well as the usual reports on wrecks, it lists the number of lives saved by lifeboats during the first forty years of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and contains a poster on performing resuscitation after drowning. Map construction, coastline changes and the decline of Bristol Docks also feature, as does a report recommending Dartmouth as a landing place for mail. This volume also describes the development and opening of the Royal School for Naval Architecture and, for the last time, contains papers of the Nautical Club.

Contents of volume for 1864
1. January 1864
2. February 1864
3. March 1864
4. April 1864
5. May 1864
6. June 1864
7. July 1864
8. August 1864
9. September 1864
10. October 1864
11. November 1864
12. December 1864
Index to volume for 1864
Lights.

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