BELCHER SIR EDWARD 1799-1877 REAR ADMIRAL

• Letters of Sir Edward Belcher to an unknown correspondent, probably Sir John Philippant, on naval and literary matters.
• Essay on jobbery in the Alderney fortifications, 1860-1863.
• Letter to Sir John Philippant from Dr. Richard King, offering an article on the North Pole, 1859.

Sir Edward Belcher

Belcher entered the navy in 1812. He was made a lieutenant, 1818; commander, 1829. Belcher was employed successively on survey of the coasts of Northern and Western Africa, Ireland, Western America, China, Borneo, Philippine Islands, and Formosa, 1830-1847. He was knighted in 1843. Belcher commanded the expedition to the Arctic in search of Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), 1852, who died trying to find the North-West passage. He became a vice-admiral in 1866, and an admiral in 1872.

His publications include:

The last of the Arctic voyages: being a narrative of the expedition in H.M.S. Assistance, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., in search of Sir John Franklin, during the years 1852-53-54 (1855)

Narrative of a voyage round the world, performed in Her Majesty's Ship Sulphur, during the years 1836-1842, including details of the naval operations in China, from Dec. 1840, to Nov. 1841 (1843)

Narrative of the voyage of H. M. S. Samarang: during the years 1843-46 : employed surveying the islands of the Eastern archipelago : accompanied by a brief vocabulary of the principal languages (1848)

The sailor's word-book: an alphabetical digest of nautical terms, including some more specially military and scientific, but useful to seaman; as well as archaisms of early voyagers, etc (1867)

A treatise on nautical surveying : containing an outline of the duties of the naval surveyor : with cases applied to naval evolutions and miscellaneous rules and tables useful to the seaman or traveller (1835)

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