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This second volume of William Scoresby's journals contains the
unpublished accounts of his three voyages in the Esk in 1814-16. As
before, these lengthy journals combine scientific records and
social and religious comment as well as detailed descriptions of
navigation and whaling. They also continue to demonstrate the
competence and confidence of Scoresby which were evident from the
moment he assumed command of the Resolution in 1811. However, each
of the journals also shows the dangers inherent in what might
otherwise seem to be routine annual sailings to the Greenland Sea
in latitudes 78 Degrees to 80 Degrees N.
William Scoresby (1789-1857) made his first voyage in the whaler
Resolution from Whitby to the Greenland Sea, west of Spitsbergen,
in 1800. Three years later he was formally apprenticed to his
father and another three years saw him promoted to chief officer.
On 5 October 1810, his twenty-first birthday, 'the earliest at
which, by reason of age, I could legally hold a command', his
father moved to Greenock and another ship, relinquishing the
Resolution to his son. Another ten years would see the publication
of what has been described as 'one of the most remarkable books in
the English language', his two-volume An Account of the Arctic
Regions, with a History and Description of the Northern
Whale-Fishery (1820). Even before he took command of the
Resolution, two developments had occurred that, when combined with
his seamanship and whaling skill, were to make that book 'the
foundation stone of Arctic science' and cause the journals of his
annual voyages to be remarkable accounts in their own right. First,
Scoresby had studied, during two brief winters at the University of
Edinburgh. Teachers such as John Playfair and Robert Jameson had
made him aware of the scientific importance of his arctic
experience. Together with Sir Joseph Banks, the president of the
Royal Society, they encouraged him to observe, experiment and
record, and provided opportunities for his data to be published.
Secondly, this encouragement, and the study habits he developed at
Edinburgh, led Scoresby to expand the logs of his arctic voyages
into lengthy journals that contained scientific records and social
and religious comment as well as detailed descriptions of
navigation and whaling.
This is the third and final volume in the set of William Scoresby's
journals. It contains the unpublished accounts of his three voyages
1817, 1818 and 1820. During the years of the voyages in this volume
Scoresby's life changed profoundly. An unsuccessful hunt for whales
in 1817 led to a break with the Whitby shipowners, and command of
the Fame in 1818 in partnership with his father. The partnership
was a brief one, and at the end of 1818 Scoresby broke with his
father and moved to Liverpool, finding new partners, completing the
writing of An Account of the Arctic Regions and watching the
construction of his new ship, the Baffin. Meanwhile he suffered a
severe financial loss and made a profound religious commitment.
After his first summer ashore for many years in 1819, he brought
back to Liverpool in 1820 a 'full ship' of seventeen whales,
despite being faced by mutineers in the crew who earlier had been
involved in piracy in the Caribbean and, apparently, hoped to seize
the Baffin 'and convey her and her valuable cargo to a foreign
country'. In each of the journals, Scoresby wrote detailed
descriptions of his landings: on Jan Mayen in 1817, western
Spitsbergen in 1818, and the Langanes peninsula in northeast
Iceland in 1820. The 1817 voyage, when Scoresby and others found
the Greenland Sea relatively free of ice, involved him in the
renewed British interest in arctic maritime exploration after the
Napoleonic Wars. The Introduction to this volume contains a major
reappraisal of Scoresby's role, especially in regard to his alleged
mistreatment by John Barrow, Second Secretary of the Admiralty. The
volume also contains an appendix by Fred M. Walker on the building
of wooden whaleships such as the Baffin that were capable of
routine ice navigation under sail as far north as 80A DegreesN,
based on Scoresby's account, as Owners' Representative, at the
beginning of the 1820 journal.
Son of an Arctic whaler, William Scoresby (1789-1857) made the
first of many voyages to northern latitudes when he was just ten
years old. Later a scientist and clergyman, he wrote on a wide
range of topics, and his observations on the Arctic prompted
further exploration of the region. He published some of his
accounts under the generic title 'Memorials of the Sea' (his 1835
notes on murder at sea and on the fate of the Franklin expedition
have also been reissued in this series). In this 1851 book,
Scoresby recounts the life of his father, also William (1760-1829),
from his earliest days to his later life as a prosperous captain
and exceptional navigator in the Arctic whale-fisheries, at a time
when the industry gave rise to extreme danger but also offered
enormous financial rewards. William, Jr's biography is also
available in the Cambridge Library Collection.
Son of an Arctic whaler, William Scoresby (1789 1857) made the
first of many voyages to northern latitudes when he was just ten
years old. Later a scientist and clergyman, he wrote on a wide
range of topics, and his observations on the Arctic prompted
further exploration of the region. The two works reissued here
together draw on his experience of seafaring in difficult
conditions. First published in 1835, Memorials of the Sea is
coloured by Scoresby's belief in divine providence. He discusses
the observance of the Sabbath at sea, and considers the Mary
Russell murders of 1828, where a ship's captain killed his crew.
Scoresby interviewed the perpetrator himself and draws his own
conclusions as to the meaning of the incident. The second work
included in this reissue is The Franklin Expedition (1850), drawing
together considerations relating to the fate and whereabouts of the
missing explorers."
Published between 1839 and 1852, this two-volume work records the
contribution of William Scoresby (1789-1857) to magnetic science, a
field he considered one of 'grandeur'. The result of laborious
investigations into magnetism and (with James Prescott Joule)
electromagnetism, Scoresby's work was particularly concerned with
improving the accuracy of ships' compasses. A whaler, scientist and
clergyman, he epitomised the contribution which could be made to
exploration and science by provincial merchant mariners - men often
less celebrated than their counterparts in the Royal Navy or in
metropolitan learned societies. In addition to his pioneering work
on magnetic science, Scoresby furthered knowledge of Arctic
meteorology, oceanography and geography. Volume 1 considers the
magnetism of steel and suggests ways to determine its quality and
hardness.
Published between 1839 and 1852, this two-volume work records the
contribution of William Scoresby (1789-1857) to magnetic science, a
field he considered one of 'grandeur'. The result of laborious
investigations into magnetism and (with James Prescott Joule)
electromagnetism, Scoresby's work was particularly concerned with
improving the accuracy of ships' compasses. A whaler, scientist and
clergyman, he epitomised the contribution which could be made to
exploration and science by provincial merchant mariners - men often
less celebrated than their counterparts in the Royal Navy or in
metropolitan learned societies. In addition to his pioneering work
on magnetic science, Scoresby furthered knowledge of Arctic
meteorology, oceanography and geography. Volume 2 records
Scoresby's investigations into the problem of navigating on
iron-built ships, the section on shipwrecks proving just how
pressing this was.
William Scoresby junior (1789-1857), explorer, scientist, and later
Church of England clergyman, first travelled to the Arctic when he
was just ten years old. The son of Arctic whaler and navigator
William Scoresby of Whitby, he spent nearly every summer for twenty
years at a Greenland whale fishery. He made significant discoveries
in Arctic geography, meteorology, oceanography, and magnetism, and
was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1824. First published
in 1823, this book recounts Scoresby's voyage to Greenland in the
summer of 1822 aboard the Baffin, a whaler of his own design. On
this journey, his penultimate voyage to the north, he charted a
large section of the coast of Greenland. His narrative also
includes descriptions of scientific observations and geographical
discoveries made during the voyage, and the appendices includes
lists of rock specimens, plants and animal life, and notes on
meteorological and other data.
Written by explorer, scientist and later clergyman William Scoresby
(1789-1857), this two-volume guide to the Arctic regions was first
published in 1820. Scoresby, himself the son of a whaler and Arctic
explorer, first sailed to the polar regions at the age of eleven,
and was later apprenticed to his father. He became a correspondent
of Sir Joseph Banks, and his extensive research on the Arctic area
included pioneering work in oceanography, magnetism, and the study
of Arctic currents and waves. He surveyed 400 miles of the
Greenland coast in 1822. This account was the first book published
in Britain which was devoted solely to the whale fisheries. Volume
1 is a general geographical survey of the Arctic region and
includes detailed observations of polar ice conditions,
atmospherology, and zoology. The book also considers the
much-debated question of northern sea communication between the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Written by explorer, scientist and later clergyman William Scoresby
(1789-1857), this two-volume guide to the Arctic regions was first
published in 1820. Scoresby, himself the son of a whaler and Arctic
explorer, first sailed to the polar regions at the age of eleven,
and was later apprenticed to his father. He became a correspondent
of Sir Joseph Banks, and his extensive research on the Arctic area
included pioneering work in oceanography, magnetism, and the study
of Arctic currents and waves. He surveyed 400 miles of the
Greenland coast in 1822. This account was the first book published
in Britain which was devoted solely to the whale fisheries. Volume
2 focuses on the fisheries and includes a history of whaling, the
methods used to extract whale oil and prepare whalebone, and the
impact of new developments. The book ends with a detailed account
of a whaling expedition in 1816.
This work by William Scoresby (1789 1857) was edited by Archibald
Smith (1813 1872) and published posthumously in 1859. It is the
account of Scoresby's final voyage and last scientific study, which
took place between February and August 1856. Scoresby made his
Australian voyage on board the Royal Charter, owned by the
Liverpool and Australia Steam Navigation Company. He wished to
observe the changes that take place in the magnetic state of iron
ships travelling on a north-to-south magnetic latitude, and to
assess how magnetic changes affect the working of a compass so that
he could discover the most reliable location for it on board ship.
The first part of the work is an exposition of magnetic principles,
followed by the results and conclusions of Scoresby's experiments.
The second part contains a travel account of the actual voyage. It
is a key work of nineteenth-century navigation science.
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