The Nautical Magazine for 1835

The 1835 Nautical Magazine includes shipping news, a lurid 'journal of a privateer', and discussion of discipline on merchant ships.

Various Authors (Author)

9781108053877, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

870 pages, 33 b/w illus. 2 maps
21.6 x 14 x 4.9 cm, 1.09 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 1835 volume lists new charts for parts of the Indian Ocean and the Australian coast, and includes a letter proposing a canal across the Isthmus of Darien (Panama). It also contains an allegedly authentic journal of a Russian privateer, whose lurid details read more like a work of fiction. Other coverage includes regular items of naval and shipping news, the sailing times of the Falmouth packets, discussion of courts martial and of discipline on merchant ships, and a review of the recently rediscovered papers of the first Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed (also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection).

Part I. January 1835: Hydrography
Original papers
Miscellaneous intelligence
Naval register
Part II. February 1835: Hydrography
Original papers
Miscellaneous intelligence
Naval register
Part III. March 1835: Hydrography
Original papers
Miscellaneous intelligence
Naval register
Part IV. April 1835: Hydrography
Original papers
Miscellaneous intelligence
Naval register
Part V. May 1835: Hydrography
Original papers
Miscellaneous intelligence
Naval register
Part VI. June 1835: Hydrography
Original papers
Miscellaneous intelligence
Naval register
Part VII. July 1835: Original papers
Miscellaneous intelligence
Naval register
Part VIII. August 1835: Original papers
Miscellaneous intelligence
Naval register
Part IX. September 1835: Original papers
Miscellaneous intelligence
Naval register
Part X. October 1835: Original papers
Miscellaneous intelligence
Naval register
Part XI. November 1835: Original papers
Miscellaneous intelligence
Naval register
Part XII. December 1835: Original papers
Miscellaneous intelligence
Naval register
Supplement. December 1835: Original papers
Miscellaneous intelligence
Index
List of plates.

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