HMS Collingwood 1844-1848 (Pacific Station) by Kay, H. Allison ( ed )

Pentland Press, Edinburgh, 1986., UK first edition, hard bound in dust jacket, 6 x 8 1/2, FINE/FINE CONDITION, ( dj price clipped ) v, 279 pages, appendices------------------------------------------------In these diaries for the period 1844-48 Lieutenant (later Vice Admiral) Somerville gives the reader in detail what life waslike in the Navy of this period on Pacific station. To anyone interested in guns and ships of the period the author gives a great wealth of detailed information which must be invaluable to any student of Naval history.