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The Navy was at the forefront of exploration with the Admiralty’s Hydrographic Department established in 1795 and the first Admiralty chart issued by Alexander Dalrymple in 1801. This was also a period of naval rebellion with mutinies at Spithead and the Nore in 1797, although these were protests about pay and conditions rather than ... ................
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