Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort recalls his entire life whilst drowning

Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort was an Irish explorer, hydrographer and officer in the Royal Navy, who dedicated his entire life to mapping the coasts and seas of our planet and improving the safety of those who travelled by sea. Beaufort was the creator of the Beaufort Scale for indicating wind force, and also promoted the development of reliable tide tables around British shores, inspiring similar research for Europe and North America. He was a council member of the Royal Society, the Royal Observatory, a founder of the Royal Geographic Society and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. So a man whose life was dedicated to science in its best sense, discovery that benefits his fellow man and saves lives. But he couldn't swim and had a profound experience when he nearly drowned.
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CREDITS

BACKGROUND
Sir John Barrow was appointed Second Secretary to the Admiralty by Viscount Melville, in 1804, a post which he held for forty years (apart from a short period in 1806–07 when there was a Whig government in power). In his position at the Admiralty, Barrow was a great promoter of Arctic voyages of discovery, including those of John Ross, William Edward Parry, James Clark Ross and John Franklin. The Barrow Strait in the Canadian Arctic as well as Point Barrow and the city of Barrow in Alaska are named after him.

Barrow was a fellow of the Royal Society and received the degree of LL.D from the University of Edinburgh in 1821. A baronetcy was conferred on him by Sir Robert Peel in 1835. He was also a member of the Raleigh Club, a forerunner of the Royal Geographical Society. The book referred to is
An Auto-Biographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow, Bart, Late of the Admiralty. Including Reflections, Observations, and Reminiscences at Home and Abroad, from Early Life to Advanced Age; Murray, 1847
Dr Wollaston (1766–1828) was a physician, chemist, astronomer and scientist.

PAINTINGS
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Willem van de Velde I (1611-1693) - HMS 'Woolwich' before a Light Breeze - BHC3732 – Royal Museums Greenwich
Sir John Barrow, 1st Bt by John Jackson
Wollaston William Hyde - Jackson
Trading vessels on the Bosphorus before the Yeni Cami mosque, Istanbul
Ivan Aivazovsky – many of the sea scapes are by this artist
A First Rate Man of War Driven Onto a Reef of Rocks Floundering in a Gale – George Philip Reinagle
Konstantin Egorovich-Makovsky - Unloading Boats on the Bosphorus
Millet – Gust of wind
Portrait of W. Whewell; stipple engraving Wellcome L0014766
Shipwreck – John Thomas Serres
Beagle in a Storm off Cape Horn-dec-24th1832
Winslow Homer – The Life Line
Kaemmerer, Frederik Hendrik – Elegant Women On The Beach
John Wilson Carmichael – Men of war Off Portsmouth Harbour
J M W Turner
Portrait of a young midshipman - Sir Henry William Beechey
The boyhood of Raleigh - Sir John Everett Millais
Henry William Baynton by Thomas Hickey
Charles Bertrand d'Entraygues – School boys playing with spinning tops in the classroom
Anker village school 1848
New tricks – Charles Bertrand Dentraygues
Sailors-cutting-away-the-masts-to-save-their-ship-in-a-storm-1800s
HMS Ville de Paris in Torbay 1805 by Derek Gardner

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MUSIC

00:00 Yonder Hill and Dale - Aaron Kenny
00:56 Nocturne - Asher Fulero
03:55 Sad Minuet - Sir Cubworth
05:02 Anomalous Hedges - Mini Vandals

07:26 Air Prelude by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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12:39 Dream Escape - The Tides
14:55 Anomalous Hedges - Mini Vandals
15:57 Drunken Sailor - The Midshipmen Glee Club