Bibliography of 18th–19th century Royal Naval history
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This Bibliography covers sources for Royal Navy history through the 18th and 19th centuries. Some sources may be duplicated in sections when appropriate. Among the contemporary and earlier historical accounts are primary sources, historical accounts, often derived from letters, dispatches, government and military records, captain's logs and diaries, etc., by people involved in or closely associated to the historical episode in question. Primary source material is either written by these people or often collected, compiled, and/or written and published by other editors also, sometimes many years after the historical subject has passed. Primary sources listed in this bibliography are denoted with an uppercase bold ' (P) before the book title. Publications that are in the public domain and available online for viewing in their entirety are denoted with E'Book.
Adams, James Truslow (1940). EMPIRE ON THE SEVEN SEAS THE BRITISH EMPIRE, Charles Schriber & Sons, New York, 409 pages; E'book
Adkins, Roy; Adkins, Lesley (2008). The War for All the Oceans:From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo Penguin Books, 560 pages, ISBN9781440638626, Book (par view)
Albion, Robert Greenhalgh, (1926), Forests and Sea Power: The Timber Problem of the Royal Navy, 1652–1862, Volume 29, Harvard University Press, 485 pages, Book (snippit view)
Allen, Joseph (1853). Battles of the British navy, Volume 1 Henry G. Bohn, London, 532 pages, E'book
Archibald, Edward H. H. (1968), The wooden fighting ship in the Royal Navy, A.D. 897–1860, Blandford P., 174 pages, Book (snippit view)
Barnes, Ian Barnes (2000). The Historical Atlas of the American RevolutionPsychology Press, 208 pages, Book (par view)
Brassey, Thomas B. (1882). The British navy: its strength, resources, and administration, Volume 1. Longmans, Green, and co., 624 pages. E'book
Beatty, William (1807). The Death of Lord Nelson. Davison, White, Londonm 99 pages. E'book
Brenton, Edward Pelham (1824). The naval history of Great Britain: from the year MDCCLXXXIII to MDCCCXXII. C. Rice, J.F.Dove, London, 536 pages. E'book
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Great Britain, ed. (1857). British and foreign state papers, Volume 28. Harrison and Sons, 408 pages, London. E'book
Clowes, Sir William Laird; Markham, Sir Clements Robert; Mahan, Alfred Thayer; Wilson, Herbert Wrigley; Roosevelt, Theodore; Laughton, Leonard George Carr (1901). The Royal Navy: a history from the earliest times to the present, Volume 6. Sampson Low, Marston and Co., London, limited. p.592. E'book
Coleman, Terry (2004). The Nelson Touch: The life and legend. Oxford University Press. p.472. ISBN0-19-517322-8. Book (par view)
Colomb, Philip Howard (1905). The battle of Trafalgar W. Clowes & sons, limited, p.18, E'book
Fraser, Edward (1906). The enemy at Trafalgar: an account of the battle from eye-witnesses' narratives and letters and despatches from the French and Spanish fleets E.P.Dutton & Co., New York, p.436, E'book
Gardiner, Robert; Randal, Gray; Przemyslaw, Budzbon (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921, Conway's Naval History after 1850 Series. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland. ISBN0-85177-245-5.
—— (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland. ISBN0-87021-912-X.
——; Lambert, Andrew (2001). Steam, Steel and Shellfire: The Steam Warship 1815–1905-Conway's History of the Ship. Book Sales, Edison, New Jersey. ISBN978-0-7858-1413-9.
Goodwin, Peter G. (1987). The Construction and Fitting of the English Man of War: 1650–1850, Naval Institute Press, p.276, ISBN9780870210167, Book (par view)
Harrison, Cy (2019) Royal Navy Officers of the Seven Years War: A Biographical Dictionary of Commissioned Officers 1748-1763 Helion and Company, p.584 Publishers Website
Hill, J.R. (2002). The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy Oxford University Press, p.496, Book (par view)
James, William Milbourne (1926). The British Navy in Adversity: A Study of the War of American Independence,
—— (1948). The influence of sea power on the history of the British people University Press, p.71, Url
James, WilliamThe naval history of Great Britain. There are two major edition the first was a five volume (London Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, 1822–1824). Listed here is the "new edition" in six volume with preface first published in London, April 1859 are available online for viewing at the Internet Archive and as they were published in 1902 are in the public domain (copyright expired):
Mould, Daphne. [1983] "What it was Like to be shot up by Old Ironsides" [American Heritage Magazine] (Log pages of HMS Cyane February 1815) [1][lower-alpha 1]
O'Byrne, Robert, ed. (1888). James' Naval History. London: W. H. Allen & Company.[lower-roman 3]E'Book
Protheroe, Ernest (2010). The British Navy: Its Making and Its Meaning BiblioBazaar, p.736, ISBN9781176425996, Url
Rasor, Eugene L. (2004). English/British Naval History to 1815: A Guide to the Literature. Greenwood Publishing Group, CT. p.875. ISBN0313305471. Url
Richmond, Herbert (1913). Papers Relating to the Loss of Minorca in 1756 Navy Records Society
Stevens, William Oliver; Westcott, Allan Ferguson (1920), A History of Sea Power, George H. Doran Company, p.428, E'Book
Stout, Neil R. (1962). The Royal Navy in American Waters, 1760–1775, Volume 2 University of Wisconsin—Madison, p.888, Url
—— (1973). The Royal Navy in America, 1760–1775: A Study of Enforcement of British Colonial Policy in the Era of the American Revolution Naval Institute Press, Annapolis. p.227, Url
Stenzel, Alfred (1898) The British Navy T. Fisher Unwin, London, p.327, E'Book
Swinburne, Henry Lawrence (1907). The Royal Navy. A. and C. Black, London. p.378. E'Book
Vincent, Edgar (2003). Nelson: Love & Fame (Biography & Autobiography) Yale University Press, p.640, ISBN0-300-10260-7, Url
Worrall, Simon (2005). "Battle of Trafalgar: Admiral Lord Nelson's Fatal Victory". National Geographic. 208 (4).
Yonge, Charles Duke (1863). The history of the British Navy: from the earliest period to the present time:in two volumes, Volume 2 Richard Bentley, 1863, p.809, E'Book
The April/May 1983 issue of American Heritage magazine carried an article "What it was like to be Shot up by Old Ironsides" concerning the discovery of three pages of HMS Cyane's logbook from 13–20 February 1815, with a transcription of 20 February 1815 battle log of Alfred L. Strangeways.[1]
Adkin, Mark (2007). The Trafalgar Companion: A Guide to History's Most Famous Sea Battle and the Life of Admiral Lord Nelson Aurum Press, London; p.560, ISBN9781845130183, Url
Bennett, Geoffrey Martin (1972). Nelson, the commander Scribner, p.322, Url
Clarke, James Stanier; McArthur, John (1810). The life of Admiral Lord Nelson. Bensley, London for Cadell. p.702. E'BookUrl2
Davies, David Tudor (1996). Nelson's navy: English fighting ships, 1793–1815 Stackpole Books, Penn., p.201, ISBN9780811711180, Url
Goodwin, Peter (2002). Nelson's Ships: A History Of The Vessels In Which He Served: 1771 – 1805 Conway Maritime Press, London; p.312, ISBN0-8117-1007-6, Url
Laughton, M.A., John Knox, (1886), (P) Letters and despatches of Horatio, viscount Nelson: duke of Bronte, vice admiral of the White squadron , Longmans, Green, 456 pages, E'Book
Longridge, Charles Nepean; Bowness. Edward, (1981), The Anatomy of Nelson's Ships, Naval Institute Press, 283 pages, ISBN9780870210778, Url
Mahan, Alfred Thayer (1918). The life of Nelson: the embodiment of the sea power of Great Britain Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 525 pages, ISBN1843831309, E'book
Nelson, Horatio; Nicholas, Sir Nicholas Harris (1845). The dispatches and letters of vice admiral ... Nelson, Vol II, 1795–1797, with notes by sir N.H. Nicolas. Henry Colburn, London, 522 pages. E'Book
——; Harris, Sir Nicholas, (P) (1846). The Dispatches And Letters, Volume 7 Henry Colburn, London, p.814, E'Book
—— (1846). The dispatches and letters of vice admiral ... Nelson, Vol VI, May, 1804 – July, 1805, with notes by sir N.H. Nicolas. Henry Colburn, London. p.510. E'Book
——; Maffeo, Steven E., Ed.; (P) (2007), Seize, burn, or sink: the thoughts and words of Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, Scarecrow Press, 629 pages, ISBN9780810857810, Book
—— (1846). The dispatches and letters of vice admiral ... Nelson, Vol VI, Sept.1799 – Dec.1801, with notes by sir N.H. Nicolas. Henry Colburn, London, 5110 pages. E'Book
——, Warner & Hanna, Eds. (1806). Memoirs of the Life of the Late Lord H. Nelson Fryer & Clark, Baltimore, 119 pages, E'book
Pettigrew, Thom. Jos (1849). Memoirs of the Life of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1. T and W Boone, London. p.514. E'Book
Clark, James Stainer; M'Arthur, John (1810) The life of Admiral Lord Nelson, K.B., from his lordship's manuscripts T. Bensley, London, 702 pages, E'Book, Url
Adkins, Roy (2004) Trafalgar: The Biography of a Battle Little Brown, 416 pages, ISBN0-316-72511-0, Book
—— (2005). Nelson's Trafalgar, The Battle That Changed the World (1sted.). London: Penguin Books. p.392. ISBN978-0-143-03795-8.
Allen, Joseph (1853). Battles of the British navy, Volume 1. Henry G. Bohn, London. p.532. E'Book
Colomb, Philip Howard. The battle of Trafalgar. W. Clowes & sons, limited, 1905. p.18. Url
Corbett, Sir Julian Stafford. The campaign of Trafalgar, Volume 2. Longmans, Green, and co., 1919. p.538. Url
Davies, David Tudor (1996). Nelson's navy: English fighting ships, 1793–1815 Stackpole Books, Penn., p.201, ISBN978-0-8117-1118-0, Url
Dull, Jonathan R. (2009). The Age of the Ship of the Line: The British and French Navies, 1650–1815. Univ of Nebraska Press. p.268. ISBN978-0-8032-1930-4. Url
Fraser, Edward (1906). The enemy at Trafalgar: an account of the battle from eye-witnesses' narratives and letters and despatches from the French and Spanish fleets. E.P.Dutton & Co., New York. p.436. E'Book
Harbron, John D. (1988). Trafalgar and the Spanish navy. Naval Institute Press. p.178. Url
Hibbert, Christopher (1995). Nelson: A Personal History. Basic Books. p.472. ISBN0-201-40800-7. Url
Nicolson, Adam (2005). Men of honour: Trafalgar and the making of the English hero. HarperCollins. p.341. Url
Nova Scotia. Vice-admiralty court, Halifax (1911). American vessels captured by the British during the revolution and war of 1812. The Essex Institute, Salem Massachusetts. p.166. Url'
Yonge, Charles Duke (1863). The history of the British Navy: from the earliest period to the present time: in two volumes, Volume 2. Bentley. p.809. Url
Warwick, Peter (2005) Voices from the Battle of Trafalgar David & Charles, p.320, ISBN9780715325568, Book
Full title: Royal naval biography; or, Memoirs of the services of all the flag-officers, superannuated rear-admirals, retired-captains, post-captains, and commanders, whose names appeared on the Admiralty list of sea officers at the commencement of the present year or who have since been promoted
Full title: A Naval Biographical Dictionary: Comprising the Life and Services of Every Living Officer in Her Majesty's Navy, From the Rank of Admiral of the Fleet to that of Lieutenant, Inclusive.
Full title: James' Naval History: A Narrative of the Naval Battles, Single Ship Actions, Notable Sieges and Dashing Cutting-out Expeditions Fought in the Days of Howe, Hood, Duncan, St. Vincent, Bridport, Nelson, Camperdown, Exmouth, Duckworth and Sir Sydney