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Post Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 11:36 pm    Post subject: Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine and other dictionaries Reply with quote

William Falconer, An Universal Dictionary of the Marine, or, a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases employed in the Construction, ...of a Ship...London: Thomas Cadell, 1780 edn.

Falconer's Dictionary is a treasure because it's more an encyclopaedia than a simple dictionary.

William Falconer was a purser in the Royal Navy and poet best known for his poem, the Shipwreck (1762).
In 1769 he published his Universal Dictionary Marine.
Later that same year he was drowned in the sinking of the frigate Aurora after the vessel left Cape Town.

The Dictionary was reprinted in 1771, 1780, 1784, 1805 and in a much revised edition by Burney in 1815.

Everything you ever searched about administration, organization, law, naval construction, seamanship...

The 1780 edition is available online: http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/contents.html


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Post Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 12:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just added a pdf file of The sea-mans grammar and dictionary by Captain John Smith of 1691.

http://www.ageofnelson.org/documents.html

First published in 1626 as An Accidence, or The path-way to experience., it's probably the first naval dictionary in English.

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Smith, John: The sea-mans grammar and dictionary, explaining all the difficult terms in navigation: and The practical navigator and gunner: in two parts. Containing, I. Most plain and easie directions, to build, rigg, yard, and mast any ship whatsoever. With the manner of working of a ship in all weathers: - and how to manage a fight at sea: - also the charge and duty of every officer in a ship, and their shares - and the use of the petty tally. II. An abstract of the art of gunnery, (or shooting in great ordnance and morter pieces:) wherein the principles of that art are plainly taught by arithmetical calculation, and by tables ready calculated - with the compositions for the making of several fire works useful in war both at sea and land. - And an appendix how by several geometrical ways to take heights, depths, and distances, accessible or inaccessible. By Captain John Smith … Now much amplified and enlarged, with variety of experiments, since his time, made by several experienced navigators and gunners.
Printed and are to be sold by Randal Taylor, London, 1691. 4to, 15×9,5 cm, (8 ), 163, (24), 153-163 pp, incl. diagrs & 1 tab., 1 plate.
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Post Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 11:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I added the Glossaire Nautique, répertoire polyglotte de termes de marine anciens ett modernes by Augustin Jal.

http://www.ageofnelson.org/documents.html

More than 1,500 pages of naval terms in tenths of languages: French, English, Italian, Spanish, Basque, Irish, German, Swedish, Danish, etc. etc.

Incredible but in French.

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Post Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 11:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I added the paramount of all English marine dictionaries - Falconer's Marine Dictionary by Dr. William Burney. The 1815 edition.

http://www.ageofnelson.org/documents.html

850 pages and 35 plates.

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Post Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 2:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

For glossaries and dictionaries, the absolute reference is
http://www.termisti.refer.org/nauterm/dicten.htm
They have also a complete bibliography but its difficult to find:
go to http://www.termisti.refer.org/
in the page list go to "la bibliographie des dictionnaires de marine", OK
in the page click "English" if your French is not up to

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Post Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 8:29 pm    Post subject: Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine Reply with quote

Some years ago I was fortunate to inherit from my grandfather, the American portrait painter and watercolorist Charles Hopkinson, a 1784 copy of Falconer's. He had been given it by the poet, novelist and essayist John Masefield. It has two notable features: the bookplate of William Hanover (then the Duke of Clarence, the future William IV, "The Sailor King," is pasted in the inside front cover; and the fact that it is complete--many existing copies having been stripped of their excellent diagrams and plans by shipwrights and others. The cover boards have been reattached, but otherwise the book has neither had nor needed significant restoration.

I like to show visitors Falconer's definition of the word "retreat":

"RETREAT, the order or disposition in which a fleet of French men of war decline engagement, or fly from a pursuing enemy. The reader, who wishes to be expert in this manoeuvre, will find it copiously described by several ingenious French writers, particularly L'Hôte, Saverien, Morogues, Bourdé, and Ozane; who have given accurate instructions, deduced from experience, for putting it in practice when occasion requires. As it is not properly a term of the British marine, a more circumstantial account of it might be considered foreign to our plan."
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Post Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 2:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can't access the pdf file. is there a password?
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