The Voyage of Captain John Narbrough to the Strait of Magellan and the South Sea in his Majesty's Ship Sweepstakes, 1669-1671: (Hakluyt Society, Third Series)
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Captain Richard Campbell (OBE) joined the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in 1946. Having completed training and served for two years in submarines he specialised in hydrographic surveying joining HMS Dalrymple in 1956. He was present at the landings in Port Said that year and assisted in the subsequent salvage operations. He has carried out hydrographic surveys in a large number of areas around the world. He served for two seasons in the Antarctic and Falkland Islands, during which time he in Valdivia and went to the Strait of Magellan numerous times as well as making a passage through it. He has had two periods as Officer in Charge of the Royal Naval Hydrographic School and commanded four surveying ships, the last of which, HMS Hydra, 1980-2, was employed as a hospital ship during the Falkland Islands war in 1982. He served as Assistant Hydrographer 1977-79, and retired in 1983 to spend twelve years in charge of the Admiralty Sailing Directions in the UK Hydrographic Office.His previous publications for the Hakluyt Society are The Discovery of the South Shetland Islands, 1819-1820, The Journal of Midshipman C.W. Poynter, 3rd ser., 4, 2000, 'The Journal of HMS Beagle in the Strait of Magellan by Pringle Stokes, Commander RN 1827', in Four Travel Journals, 3rd ser., 18, 2007 and 'The voyage of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror to the Southern and Antarctic Regions, Captain James Clark Ross, R.N. 1839-1843, The journal of Sergeant William K Cunningham, R.M. of HMS Terror', in the on-line Journal of the Hakluyt Society, 2009.Peter T. Bradley has published the first studies about Don Carlos Enriques and is an expert on the Spanish naval defence of Peru in the seventeenth century. Joyce Lorimer has published two volumes with the Hakluyt Society, on English and Irish interest in the Amazon and Guiana in the Tudor and Early Stuart period.
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- Contributor: Richard J. Campbell
- Imprint: Hakluyt Society
- ISBN13: 9781908145208
- Number of Pages: 724
- Packaged Dimensions: 174x246mm
- Packaged Weight: 1818
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Release Date: 2018-07-27
- Series: Hakluyt Society, Third Series
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Captain Richard Campbell (OBE) joined the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in 1946. Having completed training and served for two years in submarines he specialised in hydrographic surveying joining HMS Dalrymple in 1956. He was present at the landings in Port Said that year and assisted in the subsequent salvage operations. He has carried out hydrographic surveys in a large number of areas around the world. He served for two seasons in the Antarctic and Falkland Islands, during which time he in Valdivia and went to the Strait of Magellan numerous times as well as making a passage through it. He has had two periods as Officer in Charge of the Royal Naval Hydrographic School and commanded four surveying ships, the last of which, HMS Hydra, 1980-2, was employed as a hospital ship during the Falkland Islands war in 1982. He served as Assistant Hydrographer 1977-79, and retired in 1983 to spend twelve years in charge of the Admiralty Sailing Directions in the UK Hydrographic Office.His previous publications for the Hakluyt Society are The Discovery of the South Shetland Islands, 1819-1820, The Journal of Midshipman C.W. Poynter, 3rd ser., 4, 2000, 'The Journal of HMS Beagle in the Strait of Magellan by Pringle Stokes, Commander RN 1827', in Four Travel Journals, 3rd ser., 18, 2007 and 'The voyage of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror to the Southern and Antarctic Regions, Captain James Clark Ross, R.N. 1839-1843, The journal of Sergeant William K Cunningham, R.M. of HMS Terror', in the on-line Journal of the Hakluyt Society, 2009.Peter T. Bradley has published the first studies about Don Carlos Enriques and is an expert on the Spanish naval defence of Peru in the seventeenth century. Joyce Lorimer has published two volumes with the Hakluyt Society, on English and Irish interest in the Amazon and Guiana in the Tudor and Early Stuart period.
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