Brian Vale is a naval historian with degrees from Keele and King’s College London. A life-long member of the Society for Nautical Research and the Navy Records Society, he has long specialised in Anglo-South American maritime history. His books include Independence or Death! British sailors and Brazilian Independence, A Frigate of King George, The Audacious Admiral Cochrane and Cochrane in the Pacific: Fortune and Freedom in Spanish America.
Preface
Glossary of Abbreviations
- Accounts from the Early Years of the Office of the Clerk of the King’s Ships;
- More Documents for the Last Campaign of the Mary Rose
Thomas de Snetesham’s Accounts for 1344-45 and 1350-54
Edited by Susan Rose
Edited by C.S. Knighton and Dominic Fontana with the assistance of David Loades
III. The Royal Navy and the Enforcement of the Stamp Act 1764-5:
The Account of Captain Archibald Kennedy RN
Edited by Byrne McLeod
IV. James Ramsay’s Essay of 1780 on the Duty and Qualifications of a Sea Officer
Edited by Richard Blake
V. Sir John Borlase Warren and the Royal Navy’s Blockades of the United States in the War of 1812
Edited by Brian Arthur
VI. Captain John Pascoe Grenfell of the Brazilian Navy in the River Plate, March to August 1826
Edited by Brian Vale
VII. Lord Northbrook’s 1885 Response to William T. Stead’s Criticisms of Naval Preparedness in The Pall Mall Gazette
Edited by John Beeler
VIII. Conveying the Emperor Haile Selassie into Exile
Edited by Paul G. Halpern
Contents of Previous Naval Miscellany Volumes
Biography
Brian Vale is a naval historian with degrees from Keele and King’s College London. A life-long member of the Society for Nautical Research and the Navy Records Society, he has long specialised in Anglo-South American maritime history. His books include Independence or Death! British sailors and Brazilian Independence, A Frigate of King George, The Audacious Admiral Cochrane and Cochrane in the Pacific: Fortune and Freedom in Spanish America.
