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Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816

PART IX
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These have not been found, but presumably they were in a separate volume.

The Signal Book is in the Admiralty Library labelled in manuscript '1792-3( ?),' but, as before, no date or signature appears in the body of it.

From internal evidence, however, as well as from collateral testimony, there is little difficulty in identifying it as Lord Howe's second code issued in 1790.
The feature of the book that first strikes us is that, though the bulk of it is printed, all the most important battle signals, as well as many others, have been added in MS., while at the end are the words, 'Given on board the Queen Charlotte, to Capt.

----, commander of his majesty's ship the -- --, by command of the admiral.' It is thus obvious that the original printed form, which contains many further unfilled blanks for additional signals, was used as a draft for a later edition.

No such edition is known to exist in print, but both the original signals and the additions correspond exactly with the MS.


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