Nelson & His World

There is an interesting article in today's Sunday Times regarding the valuable data about climate conditions to be gleaned from the ships' logs of Nelson's day which are of great interest to scientists currently studying climate change. This is the link:

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environm ... 449527.ece

Dr Dennis Wheeler has worked on this for quite a number of years, previously as UK coordinator of the EU-funded CLIWOC project. One of his papers can be found here: http://www.meteohistory.org/2005history ... heeler.pdf

I am pleased to say that Captain Mansfield has contributed, and the NMM website has an article and transcript of his log entry for the occasion the Andromache sailed through the eye of a hurricane in 1795. See here: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.9110