+Sources – Maritime and 17th Century Reference

Needs sorting out

Navy

Age of Nelson. including Ships of the Old Navy

Three Decks – ships and men

The Victorian Royal Navy Good on ships and crews

National Archives

HNSA Manuals & Documents

THE ROYAL NAVY 1776-1815 A BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY AND CHRONICLE

Naval Chronicle by the year 18011804

1875 Bedford’s Pocket Book

Pritchett, Robert Taylor. Pen and Pencil Sketches of Shipping and Craft All Round the World. London: Arnold, 1899.

Brassey’s Naval Annual for 1880s to 1920s

1914 Manual of Navigation, 1914 by Great Britain. Admiralty pp220 for buoyage.

http://globalmaritimehistory.com/about/

The Navy Records Society

Royal Navy Research Archive

RMG Journals and Diaries.

A Naval Biographical Dictionary

1809 The new seamen’s guide

Men at Trafalgar

Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Deane, Anthony

British Maritime History…

Mariner’s Mirror Online

‘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

Ships and Wrecks

Lloyds register historical plans

Wrecksite database

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

Met Office Weather Archive

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

General

National Library of Scotland – very good.

Illustrated Sporting And Dramatic News 1874-1879 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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