Blanckley, Thomas Riley

Thomas Riley Blanckley was Clerk of the Survey at Portsmouth and was made Commissioner of the Victualling Office in 1746. His Naval Expositor, first printed in 1750, was the first illustrated maritime dictionary in the English language.

From the description of Naval expositor, shewing all the words and terms of art belonging to the parts, qualities, and proportions of building, rigging, furnishing, & fitting a ship for sea : also all species that are received into the magazines, on what services they are used and issued for with their description : together with the names of all the inferior officers belonging to a ship, with an abridgment of their respective dutys, 1732 / by T.B. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702193946