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"The Sea-gunner's Vade Mecum"

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Relative Stranger:
I am researching the Simmons family for a relative. There are two men by the name of Robert Simmons who were both in the Royal Navy. In a previous post, PhiloNauticus outlined the career of one of them for me. Now I am looking at his father, also Robert Simmons, who was a gunner. I have a service record of the ships he sailed on. In his death notice in the Sherborne Mercury 16 November 1829, it stated that he was "the author of a very useful book on Naval Gunnery". I was just wondering if this could be "The Sea-gunner's Vade Mecum" published in 1812?

PhiloNauticus:

Robert Simmons was indeed the author -  if you want to see it,  it is available on line - see the link

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433006791598&seq=7

Relative Stranger:
Thank you for that. I thought there might have been more than one gunner named Robert Simmons so wanted to be sure.

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