Shipboard Life and Organisation, 1731-1815

‘Shipboard Life and Organisation, 1731–1815’, edited by Brian Lavery. This collection of documents has been selected, when taken in conjunction with other volumes produced by the Society, including notably Five Naval Journals 1789–1817 (vol. 91, 1951, ed. H. G. Thursfield) and The Health of Seamen (vol. 107, 1965, ed. C. C. Lloyd), to help give a rounded picture of life at sea during the age of sail. It begins in the second quarter of the eighteenth century, since few if any suitable documents e