Needs sorting out
Navy
Age of Nelson. including Ships of the Old Navy
The Victorian Royal Navy Good on ships and crews
THE ROYAL NAVY 1776-1815 A BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY AND CHRONICLE
Naval Chronicle by the year 1801– 1804
Brassey’s Naval Annual for 1880s to 1920s
1914 Manual of Navigation, 1914 by Great Britain. Admiralty pp220 for buoyage.
http://globalmaritimehistory.com/about/
A Naval Biographical Dictionary
Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Deane, Anthony
British Maritime History…
‘A Sea Grammar Vvith the Plaine Exposition of Smiths Accidence for Young Sea-Men… by Captain John Smith, Sometimes Gouernour of Virginia, and Admirall of Nevv-England.’
Background to researching mariners
The dispatches and letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson
- Other Volumes
- Volume 4 1799
- The Nautical Magazine 1833 Volume 2 also see other vols.
- Entry in Memoirs of Hydrography Volume 2 also see vol 1
- Full text of “Samuel Pepys’s Naval minutes” (archive.org)
- Also see Pepys, Samuel – East Coast Curious
Ships and Wrecks
Lloyds register historical plans
The British Mariner’s Vocabulary, Or Universal Dictionary of Technical Terms and Sea Phrases Used in the Construction, Equipment, Management and Military Operations of a Ship – Google Play Books illustrations at the end.
Thisismast – Royal Navy Losses at Sea Database
Weather
Iowa State Uni for Wind Roses and other weather data
Navaids
Images at US Library of Congress
Lighthouses; Their History and Romance., 1895.
International Hydrographic Review Archive – goes back to 1923 Index is here.
17th Century
Pepys, Samuel – East Coast Curious
Evelyn’s Diaries
- Volume 1 – a few references
- Volume 2 – none found
- Volume 3 – none found
- Calendar of State Papers, domestic series, of the reign of Charles II
- Calendar of State Papers, domestic series, of the reign of Charles II
- State Papers other years (16th – 18th)
- CHARLES II 1660 – 1685 (C2) Lived 1630 – 1685 (timewisetraveller.co.uk)
- Memoirs of the English Affairs, Chiefly Naval, from the Year 1660, to 1673, 1729.
General
National Library of Scotland – very good.