A manual for teaching navigation
Manuscript Navigation course by a student. A Journal of a Voyage... In the Henry of Whitby... A.B. Commander... Kept by J. Breckon... November 17th 1791"
Type of object:
Book & Prints
Time period:
Britain rules the waves + France
Place:
probably London
Date:
1791
Maker / Author:
J. Breckon
Publisher / Printer:
private
Dimensions:
33.5 x 21 cm
Material:
full manuscript on paper, modern rebacked
Graduation:
Inscription:
18th century Naval Manuscript Navigation
Provenance:
Edinburgh and London
References:
Description
18th century Navigation.- Navigation, manuscript, 174pp., partially ruled in red, 2 folding pen and ink maps hand-coloured in outline, numerous pen and ink diagrams, slightly browned, new endpapers, modern cloth, some edges slightly chipped, folio, dated in text and map at end 1791.
1/ A manual for teaching navigation.
2/ Headings include: "A Journal of a Voyage... In the Henry of Whitby... A.B. Commander... Kept by J. Breckon... November 17th 1791";
3/ "Mercator's Sailing. The Construction & Use of the Meridional Parts"; "To work an Observation, or to find the Latitude of a Place by the Tables of the Sun, or Stars..."; "To find the Time of High Water";
4/ "Construction of Mercator's Chart"; "Parallel Sailing" etc. Maps comprise: "A Mercator's Chart... Drawn by Joseph Wilson 1791"
"A Plane Chart" showing the UK, Europe and its seas
Additional information
This manuscript may possibly be the work of J. Breckon, as it contains in the text A journal of a voyage by God's permission in the Henry of Whitby A.B. Commander from start... to the island of Madeira... kept by J. Breckon began November 17th 1791.
Henry Whitby was a captain in the Royal Navy. He fought during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. He joined the navy in 1794 as a midshipman.[1] He commanded HMS Leander and HMS Centaur. He married the second daughter of John Nicholson Inglefield.[2]
This work resembles the book of Henry Sympson:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/objects-of-intrigue-18th-century-ships-instruction-manual
