The autobiography of a seaman (volume 1 of 2) (Registro nro. 117784)
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
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| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | DA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, Earl of, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1775-1860 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The autobiography of a seaman (volume 1 of 2) |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Compiled by G. B. Earp from oral or written material furnished by Lord Dundonald and his secretary, William Jackson. |
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| General note | Release date is 2025-10-15 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | MWS, KD Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) // first edit: 9/5/2025 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "The autobiography of a seaman (volume 1 of 2)" by Earl of Thomas Cochrane Dundonald is a naval autobiography written in the mid-19th century. It charts the celebrated but contentious career of a British admiral known for daring operations, outspoken reformism, and political battles, set chiefly against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. This first volume focuses on his early life, family background, formative service, and the lead-up to the celebrated but disputed action at Aix Roads, alongside his criticisms of naval administration. The opening of the work presents a dedication to the Westminster electors and a forthright preface outlining its scope: service up to the Basque Roads attack, the ensuing court-martial of Lord Gambier, years of exclusion from command, and eventual restorations of rank and honours. Cochrane thanks prominent supporters (notably the Marquis of Lansdowne and Lord Brougham) and credits his wife’s direct appeal to the sovereign for a key turn in his fate, then states a “moral” about the personal costs of truth-telling and reform. An introductory chapter traces the Dundonald lineage—from medieval Cochranes and the rise and fall of Robert Cochran under James III, through staunch Stuart loyalties, civil-war entanglements, and the family’s elevation—before turning to the author’s own beginnings. Chapter I sketches his 1775 birth, the loss of ancestral estates, and his father’s scientific ventures (soda, alumina, British gum, sal ammoniac, white lead, and coal-tar/coke), including an early, accidental demonstration of coal-gas illumination later developed by others; these pursuits, though inventive, ruined the family finances and delayed his entry into the navy. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: Richard Bentley, 1859 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Admirals -- Great Britain -- Biography |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, Earl of, 1775-1860 |
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| Uncontrolled term | Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 19th century |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Earp, George Butler |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Jackson, William, active 1784?-1862 |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/autobiographyofs01dund https://archive.org/details/autobiographyofs_02dund">https://archive.org/details/autobiographyofs01dund https://archive.org/details/autobiographyofs_02dund</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77060">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77060</a> |
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