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   Collins
   Greenville
   G. C. ; Greenvile ;
   
   
   1669 fl.
   1696 / 1698
   
   
   publ. Freeman Collins
   trained as officer in the Royal Navy
   United Kingdom
   Great Britain's Coasting-Pilot (London 1693) ; G. C. took part in an expedition with Sir John Narborough to the coasts of South America, frigate 'Charles' 1676-79, afterwards promoted to Commander ;
   in 1681 by Samuel Pepys, Secretary of the Admiralty, Royal Navy; Trinity House
   with some of London's leading engravers for the plates for Great Britain's Coasting-Pilot (1693, printed by a namesake, publisher Freeman Collins) ;
   cartographical drawing of maritime maps and coastal profiles
   www.antique-maps-online.co.uk/chart-plymouth-collins-2759.html
   http://www.mostlymaps.com/mapmakers/captain-greenville-collins
   DNB ; John Blake: Vermessung der Meere (2007: 37, 44, 52 & 67) ; Michael Waterhouse: "Greenville Collins' 'Coasting Pilot'," 1693 (2004) ;
   
   49526273
   
   







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