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Page xxxvi
... merchant service when he entered the Royal Navy in the summer of 1754 about the age of 18 years . During the Seven Years ' War he served 14 months in the Norwich , nine in the Terrible , seven in the Marlborough and two years in the ...
... merchant service when he entered the Royal Navy in the summer of 1754 about the age of 18 years . During the Seven Years ' War he served 14 months in the Norwich , nine in the Terrible , seven in the Marlborough and two years in the ...
Page xli
... merchant service . The time - lag between his name being entered in the books of the Blenheim and his first appearance shows that he was a volunteer and not a pressed man . Though at that date Quebec had fallen , the naval war with ...
... merchant service . The time - lag between his name being entered in the books of the Blenheim and his first appearance shows that he was a volunteer and not a pressed man . Though at that date Quebec had fallen , the naval war with ...
Page 265
... merchant ships . In 1766 Knight took out a patent for a further improvement to check the excessive swing , and it is probably compasses built in accordance with these specifications that Robertson describes as the ' new invented ...
... merchant ships . In 1766 Knight took out a patent for a further improvement to check the excessive swing , and it is probably compasses built in accordance with these specifications that Robertson describes as the ' new invented ...
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