Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PLATES IN VOLUME XXI: From Original Designs
- PREFACE TO THE TWENTY-FIRST VOLUME
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF CAPTAIN HUGH DOWNMAN, OF THE ROYAL NAVY
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF CAPTAIN MICHAEL SEYMOUR, OF THE ROYAL NAVY
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE SIR HUGH CLOBERRY CHRISTIAN, K.B. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF ADMIRAL SIR C. M. POLE, BART. M.P.
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE RIGHT HON. ALAN HYDE LORD GARDNER. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE PHILIP AFFLECK, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON; AND OF THE LATE SIR EDMUND AFFLECK, BART. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON
- INDEX
PREFACE TO THE TWENTY-FIRST VOLUME
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- PLATES IN VOLUME XXI: From Original Designs
- PREFACE TO THE TWENTY-FIRST VOLUME
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF CAPTAIN HUGH DOWNMAN, OF THE ROYAL NAVY
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF CAPTAIN MICHAEL SEYMOUR, OF THE ROYAL NAVY
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE SIR HUGH CLOBERRY CHRISTIAN, K.B. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF ADMIRAL SIR C. M. POLE, BART. M.P.
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE RIGHT HON. ALAN HYDE LORD GARDNER. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE PHILIP AFFLECK, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON; AND OF THE LATE SIR EDMUND AFFLECK, BART. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON
- INDEX
Summary
“Magna est veritas.”
“WE shall endeavour to make the Naval Chronicle an useful and interesting library of itself to seamen, and an acceptable work to every one who partakes of the glory acquired by our own countrymen on their own element, or experiences the security derived from their valour.
Our leading principle will be to adhere strictly unto truth; to render justice unto naval merit, present and departed, both when it has met with success, and also, (which is of the greatest importance) when it has unsuccessfully struggled with unfavourable events, We shall not palliate enormities, should any such present themselves to our view in the course of our labours; nor shall we permit prejudice, unnoticed, to overwhelm misfortune when unaggravated by misconduct.”
This is the engagement we contracted with the public in the introduction of our first Volume, on New Year's Day, 1799; and after more than ten years have revolved, we confidently appeal to the suffrages of our professional, as well as of our literary patrons, whether we have redeemed our pledge; and whether we have not contributed abundantly, as well as usefully, towards the naval annals of our country during that period.
Conscious of the rectitude of our intentions, and (we will venture to add) of our merit in their execution, we shall detain the reader by only one more general remark.
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- The Naval ChronicleContaining a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects, pp. v - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1809