'A SYSTEM OF TACTICS FOR THE FLOTILLA SERVICE',

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'A SYSTEM OF TACTICS FOR THE FLOTILLA SERVICE',
manuscript copy by Commander Richard Copeland, R.N., 143pp, with numerous illustrations of Royal Naval flotilla tactics, procedures and a comprehensive explanation of signal practice with illustrations of flags used and sizes required, all heightened in watercolour, hand-numbered and bordered pages, quarter calf with marbled boards and gilt title plate and spine
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Captain Richard Copeland, R.N. (1792-1850) entered the Navy on 1^st January 1805 under the auspices of Queen Charlotte and the Princess Augusta as his late father had been in royal service prior to his death in a shipwreck in 1799. Young Copeland's first ship was the Medusa in which, as a First Class Volunteer, he served under Sir John Gore. After transferring into the 74-gun Revenge, he was present at various actions, including the destruction of the French fleet in the Basque Roads in 1809, and received his promotion to Lieutenant in December 1811. Made Commander in June 1815, he commanded, in succession, first Mastiff and then Meteor, both surveying vessels on the Mediterranean Station, making a name for himself during the same period with the capture of two notorious pirates in separate incidents. Placed on half-pay in 1836, he was promoted Captain in June 1838. Clearly something of a linguist, he painstakingly translated from the French and published "An Introduction to the Practice of Nautical Surveying, and the Construction of Sea Charts &c." by C.F. Beautems Beaupré, Hydrographer of the French Marine.