[Washington]: House of Representatives document 101, [1830]. A Radiating Marine Rail-way in Florida. Information and plans for the erection of a Radiating Marine Rail-way for the repair of sloops of war at the Navy Yard at Pensacola which includes the report from Loammi Baldwin addressed to Commodore John Rodgers, President..... Read More about Marine Rail-way, &c. Message from the President of the United States in reply to a Resolution...

London: Printed by T. Bentley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand and W. Miller, Albemarle Street, 1809. First Edition. Read More about The Life of Admiral Lord Nelson, K.B. from his Lordship's Manuscripts

Coventry: Stevenograph Works, c 1875. Read More about The Death of Nelson

N.p: ca. 1943]. Inscribed from Admiral Nimitz to Samuel Eliot Morison. A marvelous association inscription, inscribed during the war, reading:"Dec. 13, 1943. To. Lt. Comdr. S.E. Morison, USNR - with kindest regards and best wishes, CW Nimitz, Admiral US N."Morison was the official US Navy Historian of World War II..... Read More about Black-and-white photograph of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, in uniform, addressing another soldier,...

London: W. Johnston, 1762. First edition. Christopher O'Bryen was a Lieutenant in the Royal British Navy when he wrote this work, which is the English translation and adaptation of Paul Hoste’s L’Art des Armées Navales (Lyon, 1727), which is “a standard work on naval tactics” (NMM)This work is amply illustrated..... Read More about Naval Evolutions: or, A System of Sea-Discipline …

Philadelphia: Feb. 7, 1799. A COLORFUL DESCRIPTION OF A "FISHTOWN" SAILOR. An entertaining affidavit of citizenship for a sailor from the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, now known as “Fishtown,” which was home to a large number of German immigrants in the 18th century, who made their living shad fishing on..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript Affidavit of Citizenship, signed by "Robert Wharton Mayor of...

Barcelona: Maucci, [n.d.]. Read More about Los piratas de las Bermudas … Versión Española de Francisco Javier Godo

Washington, D.C: 1816. Read More about Report of the Committee to whom was refered the Memorial of Commodore Rodgers ... Feb 7, 1816. HR...

Washington, DC: 23 September 1903. Interestingly, the commission was to last, according to the autograph completion of the document, "until the end of the next session of the Senate," instead of simply "for the time being" as the printed portion states. Read More about Partly printed document, on vellum, promoting Winfield Scott Pugh, Jr. to Assistant Surgeon in...

London: M. Cooper, 1745. First Edition. Read More about Vice-Adm--l L-st-k [i.e. Vice-Admiral R. Lestock]’s account of the late Engagement near Toulon...

London: J. Whiston, 1745. First Edition. Read More about The Minutes of a Court Martial, Held on Board His Majesty's Ship The Lenox, in Portsmouth's...

London: Printed for J. Almon and J. Debrett, 1781. First edition. Courts Martial of Keppel & Palliser, during the American Revolution. Written by Thomas Lewis O’Beirne (1748?-1823), the Anglican divine, whose first publication was the sermon he preached (“An excellent sermon preached in St. Paul's Church, New-York”, NY, 1776), as..... Read More about Considerations on the Principles of Naval Discipline, and Naval Courts-martial; In which the...

Ca.1590. 16th Century Manuscript List of Lord High Admirals of the British Fleet. A late 16th-century manuscript listing of Admirals and Lord High Admirals of the British fleet from the reigns of Edward II to Elizabeth I. The manuscript comprises 115 entries, each 6-10 lines in length with transcriptions of..... Read More about Admiralli Angliæ a tempore Edwardi Secundi an[n]o 1307 ad an[n]um D[o]m[in]i 1590