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Author : Great Britain. Royal Navy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1793
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z196787500
Author : Mark Jessop
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526720405
In 1801 the newly forged United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland commenced life at war with France and her allies and remained so until 1815. After 1812 she had to shoulder the extra burden of a war against the United States of America. With conflict on multiple fronts, hardships continued to be inflicted at home. Trade was made precarious. People became bone-weary of hostilities and the threat of invasion ran high. Napoléon Bonaparte was no ordinary opponent, and the United States navy showed the world the worth of her ships, but what stood in their way was the Royal Navy. Despite notable losses, after the victory of Trafalgar in 1805 she dominated the seas. Although not the only means, her warships were the nation’s first line of defence that helped keep British shores safe. As the era ended it was obvious the navy had to change. Steam began to alter perspectives with new opportunities. From the vantage point of later decades it could be seen what the Royal Navy had once been and still was. A naval superpower. Britain’s oldest continual military force. The senior service.
Author : Society of writers to the signet libr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1826
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555057212
Author : Signet Library (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1826
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044089276919
Author : Society of Writers to the Signet (EDINBURGH). Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Law
ISBN : BL:A0023650613
Author : Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018994135
Author : Edward H. H. Archibald
Publisher : New York : Arco Publishing Company
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000030150195
Author : East Sussex Record Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : East Sussex (England)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041336517
Author : Library of Congress,American Library Association. Committee on Resources of American Libraries. National Union Catalog Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Catalogs, Union
ISBN : UOM:39015082905731
Author : William James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600024146
Author : Earl Thomas Brassey Brassey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044055042485
Author : J. J. Colledge,World Ship Society Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Warships
ISBN : 0905617401
The essential work, fully revised up to 2010 . . .This is the fourth fully revised edition of a book first published in 1970. This longevity is testimony to its enduring value as a reference work-indeed, 'Colledge' (as the book is universally known) is still the first stop for anyone wanting more information on any British warship from the 15th century to the present day when only the name is known. Each entry gives concise details of dimensions, armament, and service dates, and its alphabetical and chronological arrangement makes it easy to track down the right ship (otherwise the Royal Navy's tradition of re-using the same names can be misleading). When originally published, the second of the two volumes was devoted to minor fighting ships, and hired and requisitioned vessels. For the 3rd edition, published in one volume, this material was omitted, but for this edition all the genuine fighting ships-like the numbered Coastal Forces craft-have been restored, resulting in a convenient but comprehensive single-volume listing of all significant vessels.Since the death of Jim Colledge, who was widely respected for his pioneering research on the technical details of warships, his magnum opus has been updated, corrected and expanded with similar enthusiasm and attention to detail by Ben Warlow, a retired naval officer and author of a number of books in the field.returncharacterreturncharacter returncharacterreturncharacter REVIEWS returncharacterreturncharacter..".provides the reader with a historical index of every RN ship to date, starting with the 1902-built submarine A1 and ending with ZZ31-30, a 1940's built minesweeper... An excellent comprehensive reference tool." Ships Monthly, 07/2010 ..".right at the top of the 'must have' list... A book which will get much use and very welcome."Royal Navy and Maritime Book Reviews UK, 10/2010
Author : Navy Records Society (Great Britain)
Publisher : Aldershot, Hants : Scolar Press for the Navy Records Society ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Ashgate Publishing Company
Page : 1256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105027825616
To celebrate its centenary in 1993, the Society produced a special volume covering seven hundred and fifty years of British naval history, containing 535 documents carefully selected by leading experts. See the contents of British Naval Documents 1204-1960.
Author : Iain Ballantyne
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783400294
A fascinating and lively account of the lives of British warships named London, looking at history from the perspective of the men who were there. There is no current warship in the Royal Navy called HMS London, but vessels carrying the name have featured in some of the most controversial episodes of British naval history. For example, the wooden wall battleship HMS London of the late 18th century could be called “the ship that lost America” while the heavy cruiser of WW2 was command vessel for the escort force that failed to safeguard the controversial convoy PQ17. Examining the stories of HMS Londons all the way from the English Civil War, through the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801—where Nelson famously ignored signals to break off the action displayed by HMS London—we also learn of the pre-dreadnought London’s participation in the ill-fated Dardanelles campaign of WW1. Among the people Iain Ballantyne interviewed for this book were veterans of the Arctic convoys of WW2, the Yangtse Incident and warriors of the Cold War and 1991 Gulf War. It all adds up to a thoroughly researched and exciting narrative of naval history. Adding to the authenticity of the tale, Iain even sailed to Russia in the last HMS London, a Type 22 guided-missile frigate, in August 1991. During a WW2 convoy re-enactment the ship was almost hit by a practice torpedo launched from a Soviet submarine and had to take evasive action.
Author : John Leyland
Publisher : GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
When King George returned from the visit he paid to the Grand Fleet in June, 1917, he sent a message to Admiral Sir David Beatty, who had succeeded Sir John Jellicoe in the command, in which he said that “never had the British Navy stood higher in the estimation of friend or foe.” His Majesty spoke of people who reason and understand. But it is certainly true that the work of the Sea Service during this unparalleled war has never been properly appreciated by many of those who have benefited by it most. The silent Navy does its work unobserved. The record of its heroism and the services it renders pass unobserved by the multitude. Sometimes it emerges to strike a blow, engage in a “scrap,” or, it may be, to fight a battle, and then it retires into obscurity again. Its achievements are forgotten. Only the bombardment of a coast town or the torpedoing of a big ship, which the Navy did not frustrate, is remembered. Such has been the case in all the naval campaigns of the past. Englishmen, who depend upon the Navy for their security and the means of their life and livelihood, as well as for their power of action against their enemies, are but half conscious of what the Fleet is doing for them. On this matter, British statesmen, when they speak about the war, almost invariably fail to enlighten them. Who can wonder that people in the Allied countries are still less able to realise that behind all the fighting of their own armies lies the influence of sea-power, exercised by the British Fleet and the fleets that came one after another into co-operation with it? Without this power of the sea there could have been no hope of success in the war. As the King said, the Navy defends British shores and commerce, and secures for England and her Allies the ocean highways of the world. The purpose of this book is to show how these things are done. On the first day of hostilities the British Navy laid hold upon the road that would lead to victory. There is no hyperbole in saying that the Grand Fleet, in its northern anchorages, from the very beginning, influenced the military situation throughout the world, and made possible many of the operations of the armies, which could neither have been successfully initiated nor continued without it. But in the early days of August, 1914, when, from the war cloud which had overshadowed Europe, broke forth the lurid horrors of the conflict, the situation was extremely critical. What was required to be done had to be done quickly and unhesitatingly, lest the enemy should strike an unforeseen blow. Happily, with faultless knowledge, the strategy of the emergency was realised, and with unerring instinct and sagacity it was applied. The foresight of great naval administrators, and chiefly of Lord Fisher, who had brought about the regeneration of the British Navy, shaping it for modern conditions, was justified a thousandfold. Never was the need of exerting sea command more urgent than at the outbreak of war. Everything that Englishmen had won in all the centuries of the storied past was involved in the quarrel. Only by mastery of the sea could the country be made secure. Its soil had never been trodden by an invader since Norman William came in 1066. The very food that was eaten and the things by which the industries and commerce of the country existed demanded control at sea. If the British Empire was to be safe from aggression it must be safeguarded on every sea. If England was to set armies in any foreign field of operations, and to retain and maintain them there, with the gigantic supplies they would require; if she was to render help to her Allies in men or munitions or anything else, whether they came from England, or the United States, or any other country, and were landed in France, Russia, Italy, or Greece, or in Egypt, Mesopotamia, or East or West Africa, for the defeat of the enemy, that must be done by virtue of power at sea. To be continue in this ebook...
