VALE Brian

Naval Historian

Modern Period.

BIOGRAPHY

Born on May 26, 1938 BA Hons (History & Politics), University of Keele, 1960; Diploma in Education M Phil (History & Development in Brazil), Kings College, University of London 1972 Member of various Naval History societies (UK & Latin America) OBE (1977), CBE (1993), Medalha de Mérito Tamandaré (Brazilian) (1997)

He focused on naval history in Britain and South America and he is currently working on maritime diseases during expeditions, especially about Scurvy. He was a British Council officer in Brazil, the Middle East and Spain and from 1987-1991 he served as Assistant Director General in London at the British Council London. He was a contributor to the official history of the Brazilian Navy. Since 1996, he has been Chairman, International Family Health, Treasure, later Auditor, Navy Dockyards Society, Council Member and Chairman Finance Committee, Navy Records Society. He is currently, Vice President of the Navy Records Society.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ouvrages

• The Latin American Dispatches of Commodore Sir Thomas Hardy (ed), Rio de Janeiro, 1972

• Independence or Death! British Sailors and Brazilian Independence 1822-6, London,

1996

• ‘A War Betwixt Englishmen:' Brazil against Argentina on the River Plate 1825-30, London 2000, published in Spanish as Una Guerra entre Ingleses; Brasil contra Argentina en el Rio de la Plata 1825-30, Buenos Aires, 2005

• A Frigate of King George: Life and Duty on a British Man-of-War 1807-29, London, 2001

• The Audacious Admiral Cochrane: the True Life of a Naval Legend, London, 2005

• Cochrane in the Pacific: Fortune and Freedom in Spanish America, London 2007

• Physician to the Fleet: the Life and Times of Thomas Trotter MD, 1760-1832, (with

Professor G Edwards), Woodbridge, 2010

Articles

• ‘Estrategia, Poder Marítimo e a Criaҫâo da Marinha do Brasil, in Navigator, Rio, de Janeiro, Nov 1971

• ‘Lord Cochrane in Brazil: I the Naval War of Independence’, in Mariner’s Mirror (MM), Dec 1971

• ‘Lord Cochrane in Brazil: II Prize Money, Politics and Rebellion’, in MM, May 1973

• ‘British Sailors in the Brazilian Navy 1822-50’, in MM, Aug 1994

• ‘As Marinhas Británica e Brasileira: os Oficiais de Cochrane’, in Navigator, 1975

• ‘Almirante William Brown and the Battle of Corales 1826: Winners and Losers’, in MM, May 1999

• ‘British Sailors and the Independence of South America’, in Genealogists Magazine, Dec, 2000

• ‘Appointment, Promotion and “Interest” in the British South America Squadron 1821-3’ in MM, Feb 2001

• ‘A Marinha nas Guerras da Independenҫia’, e ‘A Marinha na Confederaҫâo do Equador’,

in História Naval Brasileira, vol III, Rio de Janeiro, 2002

• ‘Lord Cochrane in Chile: Plots and Paranoia’, in The Age of Sail, London, 2002

• ‘O Bloqueio Brasileira no Rio da Plata 1826-8’, in. Revista Marítima Brasileira, abr/jun 2003

• ‘The Conquest of Scurvy in the Royal Navy 1793-1800: a Challenge to Current Orthodoxy’, in MM, May, 2008

• ‘Diet and Disease; Cook and the Conquest of Scurvy’, in Food and the Voyages of Captain Cook, Whitby, 2012