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The 50 Gun Ship
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Author : Rif Winfield
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Release Date : 1997
The 50 Gun Ship written by Rif Winfield and has been published by Bloomsbury Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Fiction categories.
By the end of the sailing era the 50-gun ship had become regarded as a hybrid, too small to stand in the line of battle, and lacking the speed and hardiness of the frigate, so it has often been dismissed as a naval architectural dinosaur left over from an earlier age. This book aims to reveal the crucial role of the 50-gun ship in the development of both the battleship and the frigate, and explains the enduring role which ensured the survival of the type into the 19th century. Charting its origins in the pre-Commonwealth frigates, the author follows the development of the type in the 18th century and its gradual transition from battlefleet to heavy cruiser role, highlighting its revival for the special conditions of colonial warfare during the American Revolution. Thereafter they were employed as peacetime flagships for distant stations, achieving final glory leading small craft in anti-invasion operations during the Napoleonic War. The Leopard is the subject of the cutaway drawings.
Warships Of The Napoleonic Era
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Author : Robert Gardiner
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2011-07-27
Warships Of The Napoleonic Era written by Robert Gardiner and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-27 with History categories.
A collection of British illustrations of their ships and ships they captured from 1793 to 1815, with informative text, by the author of The Sailing Frigate. Between 1793 and 1815, two decades of unrelenting naval warfare raised the sailing man-of-war to the zenith of its effectiveness as a weapon of war. Every significant sea power was involved in this conflict, and at some point virtually all of them were arrayed against Great Britain. Many enemy warships were captured in battle, making them of interest to British artists, engravers, and printmakers, while the Admiralty ordered accurate draughts to be made of many of these prizes. Consequently, for this era the ships of all navies, not just British, are illustrated by an unprecedented variety of paintings, drawings, models, or plans. Warships of the Napoleonic Era reproduces many of the best (and least familiar) images of the ships, chosen for their accuracy, detail, and sheer visual power in an extra-large format that does full justice to the images themselves. These are backed by an authoritative text that looks at how the ships were used by the different navies, and explains the function and development of the apparently bewildering array of rates and types. This is a book that anyone with an interest in wooden warships will find both enlightening and a pleasure to peruse.
Battles Of The British Navy
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Author : Joseph Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1852
Battles Of The British Navy written by Joseph Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1852 with Great Britain categories.
British Warships In The Age Of Sail 1793 1817
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Author : Rif Winfield
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Release Date : 2005
British Warships In The Age Of Sail 1793 1817 written by Rif Winfield and has been published by Bloomsbury Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
At the zenith of its power in 1809 the Royal Navy comprised one half of all the warships in the world, the first (and last) time any navy achieved this dominance. Given its importance, it is not surprising that much attention has been lavished on this subject, but among the numerous books on the design, development and technical details of these ships, there is surprisingly little readily available on their careers. Now this gap is comprehensively filled by this superb reference book, outlining the service history of every ship, built, purchased or captured, that fought for the Royal Navy in the great wars of the 1793-1815 era v well over 2000 vessels. The book is organized by Rate, classification and class, with outline technical and building data, but followed by a concise summary of the careers of each ship in every class. This includes commissioning dates, refit periods, changes of captain, the stations where they served (and when), as well as details of any noteworthy actions in which they took part. It will enable anyone to follow up a casual reference to any warship, and will provide the researcher with a solid core of information on which to base further study. With nothing remotely like it in print, this is a work of the utmost importance to every naval historian and general reader interested in the navy of the Nelsonic era.
The 100 Gun Ship Victory
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Author : John McKay
language : en
Publisher: Conway
Release Date : 2002-12
The 100 Gun Ship Victory written by John McKay and has been published by Conway this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-12 with History categories.
The Eclipse Of The Big Gun
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Author : Robert Gardiner
language : en
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Release Date : 1992
The Eclipse Of The Big Gun written by Robert Gardiner and has been published by US Naval Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
Consulting editor David K. Brown. Chronicles the battleship from its reign as arbiter of sea power in the early twentieth century to its defeat at the hands of air power in World War II.
The Emergence Of Britain S Global Naval Supremacy
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Author : Richard Harding
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2010
The Emergence Of Britain S Global Naval Supremacy written by Richard Harding and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
Discusses the lessons which Britain learned in the war of 1739-48 which, when applied in later wars, brought about Britain's global naval supremacy.
Naval Anti Aircraft Guns And Gunnery
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Author : Norman Friedman
language : en
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
Release Date : 2014-01-21
Naval Anti Aircraft Guns And Gunnery written by Norman Friedman and has been published by Seaforth Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-21 with Transportation categories.
This book does for naval anti-aircraft defence what the author's Naval Firepower did for surface gunnery ÛÒ it makes a highly complex but historically crucial subject accessible to the layman. It chronicles the growing aerial threat from its inception in the First World War and the response of each of the major navies down to the end of the Second, highlighting in particular the widely underestimated danger from dive-bombing. Central to this discussion is an analysis of what effective AA fire-control required, and how well each navy's systems actually worked. It also takes in the weapons themselves, how they were placed on ships, and how this reflected the tactical concepts of naval AA defence. As would be expected from any Friedman book, it offers striking insights ÛÒ he argues, for example, that the Royal Navy, so often criticised for lack of 'air-mindedness', was actually the most alert to the threat, but that its systems were inadequate not because they were too primitive but because they tried to achieve too much.??The book summarises the experience of WW2, particularly in theatres where the aerial danger was greatest, and a concluding chapter looks at post-1945 developments that drew on wartime lessons. All important guns, directors and electronics are represented in close-up photos and drawings, and lengthy appendices detail their technical data. It is, simply, another superb contribution to naval technical history by its leading exponent.
The Adventures Of Laforest Dombourg Volume Two
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Author : Eric Gautier
language : en
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2023-11-28
The Adventures Of Laforest Dombourg Volume Two written by Eric Gautier and has been published by Troubador Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-28 with Fiction categories.
In his magisterial two-volume work, Eric Gautier brings to life, with unerring historical precision, the constant struggle for maritime supremacy between the French and English during the second half of the eighteenth century. In so doing, he fuses the breadth of Dumas with the accuracy of O’Brian and the charm of Forester, creating his own distinct and trustworthy voice. His hero, a young French noble, orphaned in mysterious circumstances, enrols as a Navy cadet at Brest and so begins a long and painful odyssey of self-discovery. His journey takes him from the seedy back streets of Brest and Saint-Malo to the corridors of power at Versailles, from the Bastille to the coasts of Cornwall, the West Indies, America, South Africa and India. He participates in many of the major naval engagements of the time, suffering wounds and innumerable setbacks as he doggedly uncovers the dark truth behind his mother’s kidnap and murder. As the work’s translator, Roger D. Taylor, says in his foreword: ‘The enemy is of course the Royal Navy, and it is refreshing to have a different perspective on the great naval actions of the pre-Napoleonic era. There is nothing rose-tinted about this perspective; the author’s rigorous historical sense, backed up by painstaking research of contemporary documentation, tells it just as it was. Nothing is glorified or distorted for cheap effect. The overall impact of the writing is so much the greater because of this.’ This book is Volume Two of a two-volume series.
The 20 Gun Ship Blandford
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Author : Peter Goodwin
language : en
Publisher: Brassey's
Release Date : 1988-01
The 20 Gun Ship Blandford written by Peter Goodwin and has been published by Brassey's this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-01 with Warships categories.