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.
By:
John Charnock
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: Volume 2
Dimensions:
Height: 297mm,
Width: 211mm,
Spine: 29mm
Weight: 1.430kg
ISBN: 9781108084123
ISBN 10: 1108084125
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History
Pages: 546
Publication Date: 28 July 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
1. State of the Venetian and Genoese marine; 2. Account of the British navy; 3. State of the British navy under Edward VI and Mary; 4. Internal or civil regulations; 5. Civil economy of the royal navy in the reigns of Henry VII and VIII; 6. Number of ships built for the public service; 7. The condition of the Venetian, Genoese, Spanish, French and Dutch marine; 8. State of the British navy at the accession of James I; 9. Report of the commissioners; 10. Continuation of the report; 11. Squadrons fitted our against the Algerines; 12. State of the Venetian and Genoese marine; 13. The maritime power of the United Provinces; 14. State of the Russian marine; 15. Political situation of Great Britain after the death of Charles I; 16. Flourishing state of the British navy; 17. Active measures taken by King William; 18. Principles of marine architecture.
