scholarly journals Shipwrecks in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Eras, 1793–1815. Causal Factors and Comments

1999 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. F. H. Grocott
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Annual General ◽  
Weather Factors ◽  
Annual General Meeting ◽  
Causal Factors ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
Lessons Learnt

In his Presidential Address at the 52nd Annual General Meeting of the Institute, held in London on 21 October 1998, Air Commodore Pinky Grocott gave an analysis of the causal factors that resulted in the loss of 913 large sailing ships during the period of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras (1793–1815). Navigation and weather factors predominated, often aggravated by poor and untimely decision-making. Many of the lessons learnt are equally relevant today.

Navigation, Traffic and the Community

1971 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Stratton
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Annual General ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Annual General Meeting ◽  
Critical Areas ◽  
Scientific Principles ◽  
Personal Use ◽  
Traffic Systems ◽  
The Way

In many critical areas today navigation is more concerned with maintaining the flow of traffic than with finding the way. In his Presidential Address, which was presented at the Annual General Meeting of the Institute in London on 14 October 1970, Mr. Stratton discusses some of the characteristics of sea and air traffic systems and how they interact with the costs and benefits to the community as a whole.In my previous address I concentrated on the way in which new scientific principles have been applied to determining the basic quantities of position, course and speed as inputs to the navigation process and with some of the technological problems encountered. The science and technology of navigation, however, are but the means by which navigation fulfils an operational task which itself is directed at the safe and expeditious movement of passengers and goods or to some military ends. In this address I will concentrate on some of the current and future operational tasks for navigation on the sea and in the air in fulfilment of the commercial need to transport goods and passengers and of the personal use of the vehicle for transport and leisure.

The Province of the Institute

1983 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
M. W. Richey
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Annual General ◽  
Considerable Importance ◽  
Annual General Meeting ◽  
Geographical Society ◽  
Long Period

The following Address, by the retiring Director of the Institute, was presented at the thirty-fifth Annual General Meeting held in London on 27 October 1982 at the Royal Geographical Society with the President, Captain B. J. Calvert, in the Chair. The President said that Mr Richey's pending departure (although he would continue to edit the Journal) was an event of considerable importance in the Institute's history and he felt it appropriate to have invited him on this occasion to present an Address in place of the Presidential Address normally delivered at the Annual General Meeting. Calling the Meeting to order, the President drew attention to a gavel, around which the names of past Presidents and Directors were to be inscribed, made from wood, for the anvil, from HMS Victory and, for the striker, from the yacht Jester. After the Address Wing Commander Anderson gave a reply reminding the Institute of Mr Richey's achievements during his long period in office. The audience then broke all traditions by giving the Director a standing ovation. His successor as Director, Rear Admiral R. M. Burgoyne, was then introduced to the Meeting.

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