The Trafalgar Chronicle is the publication of choice for new, scholarly research about the Georgian Navy, sometimes called -Nelson-s Navy-; the journal-s scope, however, includes all the sailing navies of the period 1714 to 1837.This year-s volume includes three articles on highly original topics. First, an analysis of the various swords the Duke of Clarence gave as gifts to Royal Navy officers. Second, is a deeply researched piece into early nineteenth-century court records to document the many incarnations of a Royal Navy schooner, Whiting, which, after capture by a French privateer in the War of 1812, became, herself, a privateer and a pirate ship. The last of three articles in this section gives an analysis of what Nelson thought of privateers, especially after the French xebec L-Esperance took his cutter Swift as a prize.To recognise the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Swedish Navy, there are included three articles from a new compilation The Baltic Cauldron, a collection
