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

    14. 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 (There will be more on this when my website guide on researching those in naval service is completed and launched.)

  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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