William Hewett
William Hewett was a Royal Navy officer noted for making the first comprehensive survey of the North Sea and for his work on tides. • Illustration — Chart of the Coasts of Brazil incorporating Hewett's survey work Hewett went to sea in Indefatigable first in the war with France, from 1805 to 1811, and in China in 1811. He then joined Cornwall as midshipman. From 1813 he served in Inconstant, and carried out a number of surveys on the coast of Brazil, including Maranhão, Ceará and Bahia.
William Hewett
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- 1840
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- naval officer · cartographer
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William Hewett was a Royal Navy officer noted for making the first comprehensive survey of the North Sea and for his work on tides. • Illustration — Chart of the Coasts of Brazil incorporating Hewett's survey work Hewett went to sea in Indefatigable first in the war with France, from 1805 to 1811, and in China in 1811. He then joined Cornwall as midshipman. From 1813 he served in Inconstant, and carried out a number of surveys on the coast of Brazil, including Maranhão, Ceará and Bahia.
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Nautical chart of the east coast of England from Orford Ness to Blakeney with the off lying shoals between Smith's Knoll and the outer Dowsing. From surveys by Commr. Hewett, R.N.; Captn. Washington, R.N.; Staff Commr. Calver, R.N., to 1867; and by Staff Commr. Tizard and the Officers of H.M.S. "Triton" 1885-7. Not current - not to be used for navigation!
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Nautical chart of the east coast of England from Orford Ness to Blakeney with the off lying shoals between Smith's Knoll and the outer Dowsing. From surveys by Commr. Hewett, R.N.; Captn. Washington, R.N.; Staff Commr. Calver, R.N., to 1867; and by Staff Commr. Tizard and the Officers of H.M.S. "Triton" 1885-7. Not current - not to be used for navigation!
United Kingdom Hydrographic Office · https: nla.gov.au/nla.obj-231681720
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- 1.Loss of the Fairy. The Nautical Magazine. 116–130. 1841.
- 2.Dawson, Llewellyn Styles. Memoirs of hydrography, including brief biographies of the principal officers who have served in H.M. Naval Surveying Service between the years 1750 and 1885. Part 1 - 1750-1830. Henry W. Keay. 56–57. 1885.
- 3.Purdy, J. Memoir, Descriptive and Explanatory, to Accompany the New Chart of the Ethiopic Or Southern Atlantic Ocean, with the Western Coasts of South-America, from Cape Horn to Panama. R.H. Laurie. 9–10. 1822.
- 4.Ritchie, G.S. The Admiralty Chart. Hollis & Carter. 1967.
- 5.Norie, John William. New and extensive sailing directions for the navigation of the North sea. Charles Wilson. 34–35. 1846.
- 6.Hewett, William. Yarmouth Roads. The Nautical Magazine. 105–108. 1837.
- 7.Hewett, William. Becher's mercurial marine artificial horizon (Letter dated 1834). The Nautical Magazine. 203–208. 1854.
- 8.Whewell, William. Researches on the tides, sixth series. On the results of an extensive system of tide observations made on the coasts of Europe and America in June 1835. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 126. 289–341. 1836.
- 9.Hewett, William. Tide observations in the North Sea. The Nautical Magazine. 180–183. 1841.
- 10.Cartwright, David Edgar. Tides: A Scientific History. Cambridge University Press. 17 August 2000. 978-0-521-79746-7.
- 11.Rice, Tony. British Oceanographic Vessels 1800-1950. The Ray Society. 70. 1986. 0903874199.
- 12.Memorial of Mrs. Hewett. The Nautical Journal. 425–427. 1841.
- 13.Loss of the Fairy. The Nautical Journal. 7. 1841.
- 14.Washington, John. Tide Observations - North Sea - Professor Whewell's Theory. The Nautical Magazine. 566–569. 1842.
- 15.The North Sea - Sheet 1 - From Dover and Calais to Orfordness and Scheveningen. The Nautical Magazine. 289–291. 1845.
- 16.Day, Sir Archibald. The Admiralty Hydrographic Service, 1795-1919. H.M. Stationery Office. 50. 1082894797.
- 17.Dunsterville, Edward. Admiralty Catalogue of Charts, Plans, Views, and Sailing Directions, &c. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 20. 1860.
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