Paper, 'Track of HMS Lion from Davis's Straits to Labrador' by Richard Pickersgill
Reference number: L&P/7/37
Date: 1778
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Subject: Navigation
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Track of His Majesty's armed brig Lion from England to Davis's Streights and Labrador, with observations for determining the longitude by Sun and Moon and error of common reckoning; also the variation of the compass and dip of the needle, as observed during the said voyage in 1776'
Read 30 April 1778
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- L&P/7/37
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- 1778
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- 7 pages
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- Manuscript
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Paper, 'Track of HMS Lion from Davis's Straits to Labrador' by Richard Pickersgill, 1778, L&P/7/37, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_37/paper-track-of-hms-lion-from-daviss-straits-to-labrador-by-richard-pickersgill, accessed on 19 January 2026
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1778-1782 Reference number: L&P/7
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