Conselho de Guerra a que respondeu o Capitão-Tenente d'Armada ... pela perda do vapor Duque de Saldanha que foi do seu commando.

Lisbon, Typographia na Rua dos Douradores, 1855.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 8°, original pink printed wrappers (soiled, creased, 5 x 2.5 cm. at lower outer corner of front wrapper missing, spine chipped, stitching loosening). Some browning, edges curling. In good condition. 54 pp., 1 folding table, (1 blank l.), large folding map [80.5 x 60.5 cm.]. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Capitão-Tenente Kol was court-martialed over the loss of the steamship Duque de Saldanha, which ran aground under his command. Included here are summaries of a substantial number of witnesses, the interrogation of Kol, and his sentence. The shipwreck, claims Kol, was due to a combination of an error in the ship's timekeeping, an error in a map, and a deviation in the compass. Kol claims that the error in the compass was due to the fact that steamships such as the Duque de Saldanha were largely made of iron. He cites statistics of compass deviations recorded on British steamships from 1847 to 1853. Also included are translations of articles on compass deviation by William Walker (pp. 31-33) and A.B. Belcher (pp. 33-43). The large folding map at the end is titled "Carta da Costa de Portugal, por Marino Miguel Franzini." It shows the coast of Portugal from Cabo Silleiro (just north of the Spanish border) south to Peniche, which is 100 km. north of Lisbon. Franzini (1779-1861), who served in numerous high posts in the Portuguese navy and government, was a pioneer of meteorology in Portugal. He was a member of the Academia Real das Ciências de Lisboa and a Grã-Cruz of the Ordem Militar de Cristo.Joaquim José Cecilia Kol (1805-1880) rose to the rank of rear admiral and was a member of the Supremo Tribunal de Guerra e Marinha. For many years he was Lisbon's capitão do porto. He also served as general secretary for Portuguese India and was a commander of the Ordem de S. Bento de Aviz, a cavalier of the Ordem de Christo, and an official of the Ordem da Rosa (Brazil). Aside from this work, he also published Mappa geral estatistico e historico da India portugueza, contendo a situação geographica dos principaes pontos do litoral, divisão territorial e sua extensão, Nova Goa, 1850.*** Innocêncio XII, 79-80, 382. Esteves Pereira and Guilherme Rodrigues, Portugal, Diccionario historico, chorographico, biographico (1907) III, 1086. Porbase locates a copy at Biblioteca Central da Marinha and three more at Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (one in "mau estado"). Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copies cited by Porbase.