The Nautical Magazine

The Nautical Magazine, later titled The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, was founded in London in 1832 as a monthly pu...

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The Nautical Magazine, later titled The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, was founded in London in 1832 as a monthly publication intended for seafarers, naval officers, and those engaged in maritime commerce. It was edited until 1870 by Alexander Bridport Becher, a Royal Navy surveyor who worked under Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort at the Admiralty’s Hydrographic Office, with which the magazine was closely associated. In its early decades the journal reported hazards to navigation, surveying expeditions, and the publication of new Admiralty charts, while documenting the rapidly changing maritime world of the early Victorian era. Articles and maps covered the rise of steam navigation and iron shipbuilding, the construction of new harbours and lighthouses, shipwreck statistics, and the development of the RNLI and its lifesaving work. The magazine also reported widely on exploration, empire, and war, including polar expeditions and the search for Sir John Franklin, the Opium Wars, developments across Britain’s expanding colonies in Australia and New Zealand, and other notable voyages such as that of HMS Beagle.

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The Nautical Magazine, later titled The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, was founded in London in 1832 as a monthly publication intended for seafarers, naval officers, and those engaged in maritime commerce. It was edited until 1870 by Alexander Bridport Becher, a Royal Navy surveyor who worked under Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort at the Admiralty’s Hydrographic Office, with which the magazine was closely associated. In its early decades the journal reported hazards to navigation, surveying expeditions, and the publication of new Admiralty charts, while documenting the rapidly changing maritime world of the early Victorian era. Articles and maps covered the rise of steam navigation and iron shipbuilding, the construction of new harbours and lighthouses, shipwreck statistics, and the development of the RNLI and its lifesaving work. The magazine also reported widely on exploration, empire, and war, including polar expeditions and the search for Sir John Franklin, the Opium Wars, developments across Britain’s expanding colonies in Australia and New Zealand, and other notable voyages such as that of HMS Beagle.

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