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After completing his studies at Trinity College, Oxford, John
Charnock (1756-1807) joined the Royal Navy as a volunteer. Though
details of his career at sea are lacking, he is known to have
embarked on assiduous research into historical and contemporary
naval affairs, and he cultivated contacts with many serving
officers. His six-volume Biographia Navalis (1794-8), flawed yet
still useful, is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.
Published in three volumes from 1800 to 1802, the present work
stands as the first serious study of naval architecture in Britain
in particular, while also noting major developments in Europe and
beyond. The volumes are illustrated throughout with numerous
designs of vessels. Volume 1 (1800) traces the origins of marine
architecture and how it was affected by commerce and war, from the
ancient Chinese and Egyptians, through the Greeks and Romans, up to
the death of Richard III.
After completing his studies at Trinity College, Oxford, John
Charnock (1756-1807) joined the Royal Navy as a volunteer. Though
details of his career at sea are lacking, he is known to have
embarked on assiduous research into historical and contemporary
naval affairs, and he cultivated contacts with many serving
officers. His six-volume Biographia Navalis (1794-8), flawed yet
still useful, is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.
Published in three volumes from 1800 to 1802, the present work
stands as the first serious study of naval architecture in Britain
in particular, while also noting major developments in Europe and
beyond. The volumes are illustrated throughout with numerous
designs of vessels. Volume 3 (1802) covers changes across the
entire eighteenth century, with some discussion of African and
Asian examples. The work concludes with various experimental and
practical considerations relating to effective shipbuilding and
seafaring.
John Charnock (1756 1807) was a professional naval biographer and
historian. After completing his studies at Trinity College, Oxford,
he joined the Navy as a volunteer and began to research historical
and contemporary naval affairs. This six-volume work, first
published between 1794 and 1798, contains biographies of over two
thousand post-captains and admirals who served in the Navy between
1660 and 1793. Charnock researched this monumental project using
collections of historical naval biographies made available by his
friend Captain William Locker, lieutenant-governor of Greenwich
Hospital. He also drew on his own experiences and his contacts
among serving officers to provide valuable insights into
contemporary events. However, his sometimes uncritical approach to
sources means his work is best consulted together with other
evidence. The biographies are arranged by year of first
appointment, and alphabetically within each year. Volume 1 contains
biographies of officers appointed between 1660 and 1673.
John Charnock (1756 1807) was a professional naval biographer and
historian. After completing his studies at Trinity College, Oxford,
he joined the Navy as a volunteer and began to research historical
and contemporary naval affairs. This six-volume work, first
published between 1794 and 1798, contains biographies of over two
thousand post-captains and admirals who served in the Navy between
1660 and 1793. Charnock researched this monumental project using
collections of historical naval biographies made available by his
friend Captain William Locker, lieutenant-governor of Greenwich
Hospital. He also drew on his own experiences and his contacts
among serving officers to provide valuable insights into
contemporary events. However, his sometimes uncritical approach to
sources means his work is best consulted together with other
evidence. The biographies are arranged by year of first
appointment, and alphabetically within each year. Volume 2 contains
biographies of officers appointed between 1674 and 1692.
John Charnock (1756 1807) was a professional naval biographer and
historian. After completing his studies at Trinity College, Oxford,
he joined the Navy as a volunteer and began to research historical
and contemporary naval affairs. This six-volume work, first
published between 1794 and 1798, contains biographies of over two
thousand post-captains and admirals who served in the Navy between
1660 and 1793. Charnock researched this monumental project using
collections of historical naval biographies made available by his
friend Captain William Locker, lieutenant-governor of Greenwich
Hospital. He also drew on his own experiences and his contacts
among serving officers to provide valuable insights into
contemporary events. However, his sometimes uncritical approach to
sources means his work is best consulted together with other
evidence. The biographies are arranged by year of first
appointment, and alphabetically within each year. Volume 3 contains
biographies of officers appointed between 1693 and 1708.
John Charnock (1756 1807) was a professional naval biographer and
historian. After completing his studies at Trinity College, Oxford,
he joined the Navy as a volunteer and began to research historical
and contemporary naval affairs. This six-volume work, first
published between 1794 and 1798, contains biographies of over two
thousand post-captains and admirals who served in the Navy between
1660 and 1793. Charnock researched this monumental project using
collections of historical naval biographies made available by his
friend Captain William Locker, lieutenant-governor of Greenwich
Hospital. He also drew on his own experiences and his contacts
among serving officers to provide valuable insights into
contemporary events. However, his sometimes uncritical approach to
sources means his work is best consulted together with other
evidence. The biographies are arranged by year of first
appointment, and alphabetically within each year. Volume 4 contains
biographies of officers appointed between 1709 and 1739.
John Charnock (1756 1807) was a professional naval biographer and
historian. After completing his studies at Trinity College, Oxford,
he joined the Navy as a volunteer and began to research historical
and contemporary naval affairs. This six-volume work, first
published between 1794 and 1798, contains biographies of over two
thousand post-captains and admirals who served in the Navy between
1660 and 1793. Charnock researched this monumental project using
collections of historical naval biographies made available by his
friend Captain William Locker, lieutenant-governor of Greenwich
Hospital. He also drew on his own experiences and his contacts
among serving officers to provide valuable insights into
contemporary events. However, his sometimes uncritical approach to
sources means his work is best consulted together with other
evidence. The biographies are arranged by year of first
appointment, and alphabetically within each year. Volume 5 contains
biographies of officers appointed between 1740 and 1746.
John Charnock (1756 1807) was a professional naval biographer and
historian. After completing his studies at Trinity College, Oxford,
he joined the Navy as a volunteer and began to research historical
and contemporary naval affairs. This six-volume work, first
published between 1794 and 1798, contains biographies of over two
thousand post-captains and admirals who served in the Navy between
1660 and 1793. Charnock researched this monumental project using
historical naval biographies made available by his friend Captain
William Locker, lieutenant-governor of Greenwich Hospital. He also
drew on his own experiences and his contacts among serving officers
to provide valuable insights into contemporary events. However, his
sometimes uncritical approach to sources means his work is best
consulted together with other evidence. The biographies are
arranged by year of first appointment, and alphabetically within
each year. Volume 6 covers officers appointed between 1747 and
1763, and admirals to 1793.
After completing his studies at Trinity College, Oxford, John
Charnock (1756-1807) joined the Royal Navy as a volunteer. Though
details of his career at sea are lacking, he is known to have
embarked on assiduous research into historical and contemporary
naval affairs, and he cultivated contacts with many serving
officers. His six-volume Biographia Navalis (1794-8), flawed yet
still useful, is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.
Published in three volumes from 1800 to 1802, the present work
stands as the first serious study of naval architecture in Britain
in particular, while also noting major developments in Europe and
beyond. The volumes are illustrated throughout with numerous
designs of vessels. Volume 2 (1801) opens by considering Venetian
and Genoese seafaring in the middle of the fifteenth century.
Significant space is then given to the navies of the Tudors and
Stuarts, and to changes in Europe up to the end of the seventeenth
century.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Rich in titles on
English life and social history, this collection spans the world as
it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles
include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of
nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world
that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American
Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side
of conflict. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++<sourceLibrary>Trinity College
Library Watkinson
Collection<ESTCID>T073785<Notes>Volumes 5 and 6 are a
continuation of the work.<imprintFull>London: printed for R.
Faulder, 1794-98. <collation>6v., plates: ports.; 8
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The
eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity
followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and
Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style
dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments
in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture,
architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional
works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic
operas, and more are also included. ++++The below data was compiled
from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of
this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping
to insure edition identification: ++++British
LibraryT011211Prospectus for 'An History of marine architecture ..
', London: R. Faulder, 1800-02.London: printed for R. Faulder,
1796. 4],20p., plates; 4
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