Footnotes
1. N.A.M.
Rodger: The Wooden World (London: Fontana Press, 1988) pp.262-263
2. Michael
Lewis: A Social History of the Navy 1793-1815 (London: George Allen
& Unwin, 1960) chapter I, especially table I p.31
3. Not to be
confused with the rank of Master & Commander
4. There are
boatswains known not to have been able to sign their names, which seems to have
been unusual and is commented on in Rodger: Wooden World p.23
5. Ibid. p.22;
and Brian Lavery: Nelson’s Navy: The Ships, Men
and Organisation 1793-1815 (London: Conway Maritime Press, 1990) p.101
6. Rodger: Wooden
World pp.45-46. What level of literacy WEYMOUTH’s ship’s company held is,
of course, unknown. Re Signalmen see Lewis: Social History pp.255-256
7. This is
dealt with in great detail in James Dugan: The Great Mutiny (London:
Mayflower Paperbacks, 1970). Also see Lewis: Social History pp.121-127
8. Lavery: Nelson’s
Navy p.104
9. N.A.M.
Rodger: Naval Records for Genealogists (Richmond, Surrey: PRO
Publications, 1998) p.29
10.Lewis: Social
History pp.258-259
11.Gordon Taylor:
The Sea Chaplains: A History of the Chaplains of the Royal Navy (Oxford:
OUP, 1978) pp.165-166 and p.190
12.John
Masefield: Sea Life in Nelson’s Time (London: Conway Maritime Press,
1971) p.43
13.Malcom Falkus: Britain Transformed: An Economic and Social History
1700-1914 (Ormskirk: Causeway Books, 1987) p.119
N.B. An
Open University television programme I viewed some years ago claimed that Nasmyth actually invented it at least twenty years before
and one was surreptitiously built in France (by someone stealing his idea)) in
1819. (Unfortunately I have not yet been able to substantiate this claim.)
14.Andrew
Lambert (Consultant Editor): Steam, Steel and Shellfire: The Steam Warship
1815-1905 (London: Conway Maritime Press, 1992) pp.158-160
15.For an
excellent understanding of pressing see Rodger: Wooden World p.104,
p.122, p.128, pp.139-140, pp.143-147, pp.150-151, pp.160-161, pp.163-182,
pp.187-189 and p.204. Regarding other circumstances behind the introduction of
continuous service the original Acts of Parliament, Naval Circulars, ‘K.R’s’
and ‘Q.R’s’ should be consulted
16.For detail
see Frank L Bowen: History of the Royal Naval Reserve (London: The Corporation
of London, 1926) and J. Lennox Kerr & Wilfred Granville: The R.N.V.R:- A
Record of Achievement (London: George Harrap,
1957)
17.Michael
Duffy, Stephen Fisher, Basil Greenhill, David J Starkey and Joyce Youings (Editors): The New Maritime History of Devon
(London: Conway Maritime Press, 1994) pp.191-193
18.Instructor
Lieut. D.L. Summers R.N.: HMS GANGES: Boys Training for the Royal Navy
(Crown copyright revised 1972) pp.25-29. (N.B. This was sold at GANGES to
trainees)
19.Ibid. p.26
20.Kelvin
Smith, Christopher T Watts and Michael J Watts; Records of Merchant Seamen
(Richmond, Surrey: PRO Publications, 1998) p.23
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