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2 unusual facts about Navy Records Society


Battle of the Saintes

One hundred and twenty years later, the Navy Records Society published the Dispatches and Letters Relating to the Blockading of Brest.

William Gordon Perrin

From 1922 until his death Perrin was honorary editor of the Mariner's Mirror and honorary secretary of both the Navy Records Society (since 1912 : it owes to him its revival after the War) and, by appointment of the Admiralty, to the Trustees of the National Maritime Museum and MacPherson Collection at Greenwich.


Charles Iain Hamilton

"Selections from the Phinn Committee of Inquiry of October-November 1853 into the State of the Office of Secretary to the Admiralty , in The Naval Miscellany, volume V, edited by N. A. M. Rodger, (London: Navy Records Society, London, 1984).

John Knox Laughton

Beginning his working life as a mathematically-trained civilian instructor for the Royal Navy, he later became Professor of Modern History at King's College London and a co-founder of the Navy Records Society.


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