The Trafalgar Chronicle New Series 7

Contents President’s Foreword – Admiral Sir Jonathon Band 5 Editors’ Foreword – Judith E Pearson and John A Rodgaard 7 Articles on the 2022 Theme: Scientific and Technological Advances in the Navies of the Georgian Era Sir Samuel Bentham – Civil Architect and the First Engineer 10 of the Royal Navy – John Wills and Kenneth Flemming The Blomefield Cannon – Aaron Bright 25 Benjamin Robins and the Science of Naval Gunnery – Anthony Bruce 37 Robert Fulton’s Infernal Machines – Christopher Pieczynski 48 Charts ‘sent by the ever to be lamented Lord Nelson’: 60 Some Reflections on Navigational Practice in the Georgian Royal Navy – Michael Barritt Peter Heywood: Scientific Sailor – Paul Martinovich 71 Fighting Instructions, Signal Books and the Line of Battle: 85 The Evolution of Sailing Tactics in the Royal Navy, 1740–1815 – Andrew Venn Advances in Shipboard Care in Nelson’s Navy – Linda Collison 96 The Navy’s Naturalist and Polymath: Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820) 105 – Tom d Fremantle

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