The narrative of a voyage of discovery, performed in His Majesty's vessel the Lady Nelson in the years 1800, 1801, and 1802, to New South Wales / James Grant.
In 1800-2 the naval officer James Grant (1772-1833) sailed to Australia on board the Lady Nelson, a surveying ship that was the first in England to be built on the sliding-keel principle. In this 1803 publication, Grant assesses the merits of the design and documents various teething problems experi...
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2011.
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Series: | Cambridge library collection. Maritime exploration.
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