Hi,
A website for John Moores University, Liverpool, mentions that one of the
institutions which combined to form it was the Nautical College, founded in
1892. Perhaps the Nautical Academy was a forerunner. You might try
writing to a local history office in Liverpool or the archives at J.M.
University to see if they can help with your query.
Peggy Daub
University of Michigan
--On Monday, May 27, 2002, 6:37 PM -0700 JP Dupre <jpdupre@clic.net> wrote:
> Four years ago, I posted the following message, with no results.
>
> Will I be more lucky this time?
>
> *********************************************
>
> I am looking for information on the following booklet:
>
> Author: Macnab, J., Examiner to the Liverpool Local Marine Board, Author
> of "Going to Sea," ETC.
>
> Title: Catechism of the Law of Storms for the Use of Sea Officers. With
> Instructions for Answering Papers on the Subject in the Board of Trade
> Examinations, and Diagrams Illustrating both the Circular & Incurving
> Theories, A list of the Best Authors, &c. Second Edition
>
> Publisher: George Philip & Son, 32 Fleet Street, London, Liverpool,
>
> Date: 1888 (Second Edition)
>
> Pagination and format: 39 pages, foldable map, 12.5 x 18.5 cm.
>
> The book has a small stamp from "Capt. Norbury Nautical Academy, 88
> Saint-James Street, Liverpool" and what seems a hand-written inscription
> signed by this Capt. Norbury: "Laws of Storms also Reduction of
> Soundings?? St Georges Channel, Irish Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Azimuth, Line,
> Azimuth, Chart Sextant with all the nesscity (sic) of Seamanship."
>
> Does someone know anything about this "Nautical Academy" (opening,
> closing, etc.) or the author?
>
> p.s. This booklet has definitively served, with underlines and another
> hand-written note reading: "Jim? Roberts 16 Terrace Road, Port Madoc,
> North Wales, 26 July 1889 wrote this at Hamburg loading mollases (sic) for
> Dunkirk France"
>
> Thank you.
>
> Jean-Paul Dupre
> Sainte-Foy (Quebec)
> Canada
> jpdupre@clic.net
>