Tables, from 'On the magnetic character of the armour-plated ships of the Royal Navy, and on the effect on the compass of particular arrangements of iron in a ship' by Frederick John Owen Evans and Archibald Smith Several fold-out tables of data relating to deviation of the compass on board numerous Royal Navy ships around the world. Subject: Engineering Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the magnetic character of the armour-plated ships of the Royal Navy, and on the effect on the compass of particular arrangements of iron in a ship'. Received by the Royal Society on 9 March 1865. Read 16 March 1865. Abstract of paper published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 14, 1865. [1865]