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Author : William R. O'Byrne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101075683571
Author : William R. O'Byrne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UGA:32108026216542
Author : William R. O'Byrne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1400 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:48804728
Author : William Richard O'Byrne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1400 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:2509971
Author : William R. O'Byrne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:59322582
Author : William Richard O'Byrne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:187011478
Author : William R. O'Byrne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1400 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1843428644
Originally published in 1849, this work gives details of the life and services of every living officer in Her Majesty s Navy who was serving or had retired by 1845 - nearly 5,000 officers in all. Generally acknowledged as the most comprehensive work of its kind, it was a considerable undertaking for one man to piece together such detailed biographies. This information was compiled from official records and from details supplied by the officers themselves. The service details found on every page reflect the centuries-old naval traditions of devotion to duty and great bravery in the face of danger. They also provide information on the many naval actions that were fought at the end of the eighteenth and first half of nineteenth centuries. Coincidentally, the original publication took place during the year of issue of what is now referred to as the Naval General Service Medal. in 1847 Queen Victoria authorised this award to be struck to record the services of naval officers and men who took part in various actions between 1793 and 1815, later extended to 1840. The award was limited to those who were alive at the time of the announcement. Over 200 Naval actions were commemorated on clasps to this medal; details of these and a considerable number of other engagements are to be found throughout this volume. Over the century and a half since its publication, this work has established itself as an essential reference work for naval historians and for a wider section of the public who are in search of their naval ancestry.
Author : William Richard O'Byrne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:264934153
Author : By William R O'Byrne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1843422972
Author : William Richard O'Byrne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1400 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:04025883
Author : Nottingham (England). Free Public Reference Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Classified catalogs
ISBN : UIUC:30112119752449
Author : Sheila Bransfield
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526752642
The definitive biography of the British naval officer who found the Antarctic shoreline in the early nineteeth century. Captain Cook claimed the honor of being the first man to sail into the Antarctic Ocean in 1773, which he circumnavigated the following year. Cook, though, did not see any land, and declared that there was no such thing as the Southern Continent. Fifty years later, an Irishman who’d been impressed into the Royal Navy at eighteen, and risen through the ranks to the position of master, proved Cook wrong, discovering and charting parts of the Antarctic shoreline. He also discovered Elephant Island and Clarence Island, claiming them for the British Crown. Edward Bransfield’s naval career included taking part in the Bombardment of Algiers in 1816 onboard the 50-gun warship HMS Severn. Then, in 1817, he was posted to the Royal Navy’s Pacific Squadron off Valparaíso in Chile, and it was while he served there that the skipper of an English whaling ship, the Williams, was driven south by adverse winds and discovered what came to be known as the South Shetland Islands where Cook had said there was no land. Bransfield’s superior officer, Captain Sherriff, decided to investigate further. He chartered Williams and sent Bransfield with two midshipmen and a ship’s surgeon into the Antarctic—and the Irishman sailed into history. Despite many parts of Antarctica and an Antarctic survey vessel being named after him, and a Royal Mail commemorative stamp issued in his name, the full story of this remarkable man and his historic journey, have never been told—until now. Following decades of research, Sheila Bransfield MA, a member of the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust, has produced the definitive biography of one of Britain’s greatest maritime explorers. The book also includes a foreword by the Trust’s patron the Princess Royal. “Bransfield’s meticulous research gives us a detailed account of the daily routines of the Navy and the immense amount of maintenance required of a large wooden warship in the Age of Sail.” —Historical Novel Society
Author : Charles Darwin,Frederick Burkhardt,Sydney Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1985-03-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521255872
The letters in Volume 9 provide another indispensable collection for those interested in Darwin's life, work, and world. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Catherine Watts
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000891713
Have you ever looked at a word and thought: ‘I wonder where that came from’? You might well find the answer in this book, which considers the origin and formation of some of the many thousands of new words that were coined in English during the nineteenth century in the broad field of ‘science’. Changes in society are often accompanied by the need to find names for such changes which, in turn, has an impact on how the language develops as a result. The British Industrial Revolution ushered in a new era of language change, which led to many new coinages in the English language reflecting scientific knowledge as it developed. Many of these neologisms belong to specialist vocabulary, but others do not, and it is these lay coinages which form the focus of this book and are located within their social, cultural and historical backgrounds. Aimed at postgraduate students of the English language and all those interested in the history of the English language, this work explores new worlds and offers an original and fascinating etymological journey through nineteenth-century science in its broadest sense.
Author : Duncan M. Porter,Sheila Ann Dean,Paul S. White,Sarah Wilmot
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Evolution (Biology)
ISBN : 0521590345
