Gunboats Empire And The China Station

Author : Matthew Heaslip
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350176201

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Gunboats, Empire and the China Station by Matthew Heaslip Pdf

Examining Britain's imperial outposts in 1920s East Asia, this book explores the changes and challenges affecting the Royal Navy's third largest fleet, the China Station, as its crews fought to hold back the changing tides of fortune. Bridging the gap between high level naval strategy and everyday imperial culture, Heaslip highlights the importance of the China Station to the British imperial system, foreign policy and East Asian geopolitics, while also revealing the lived experiences of these imperial outposts. Following their immersion into a new world and the challenges they encountered along the way, it considers how its naval officers were perceived by the Chinese populations of the ports they visited, how the two communities interacted and what this meant at a time of 'peace'. Against the changing nature of Britain's informal empire in the 1920s, Gunboats, Empire and the China Station highlights the complex nature of naval operations in-between major conflicts, and calls into question how peaceful this peacetime truly was.

Author : Gerald Sandford Graham
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000093471

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The China Station by Gerald Sandford Graham Pdf

Deals not only with the details of the amphibious warfare which led to the capture of Peking, but also with European rivalries, American trade competition, major crises such as the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny, internal conditions in China, and missionary enterprise.

Author : Angus Konstam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472851598

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British Gunboats of Victoria's Empire by Angus Konstam Pdf

A beautifully illustrated history of the iconic ocean-going gunboats of British 'gunboat diplomacy', the hundreds of little warships that for 50 years demonstrated the power of the Royal Navy worldwide, and which maintained and enforced the rule of the British Empire at its peak. In recent years the phrase 'gunboat diplomacy' has been used to describe the crude use of naval power to bully or coerce a weaker nation. During the reign of Queen Victoria, 'gunboat diplomacy' was viewed very differently. It was the use of a very limited naval force to encourage global stability and to protect British overseas trade. This very subtle use of naval power was a vital cornerstone of the Pax Britannica. Between the Crimean War (1854–56) and 1904, when the gunboat era came to an abrupt end, the Royal Navy's ocean-going gunboats underpinned Britain's position as a global power and fulfilled the country's role as a 'global policeman'. Created during the Crimean War, these gunboats first saw action in China. However, they were also used to hunt down pirates in the coasts and rivers of Borneo and Malaya, to quell insurrections and revolts in the Caribbean or hunt slavers off the African coast. The first gunboats were designed for service in the Crimean War, but during the 1860s a new generation of ships began entering service – vessels designed specifically to fulfill this global policing role. Better-designed gunboats followed, but by the 1880s, the need for them was waning . The axe finally fell in 1904 when Admiral 'Jackie' Fisher brought the gunboat era to an end in order to help fund the new age of the dreadnought. This exciting New Vanguard title describes the rise and fall of the gunboat, the appearance and capability of these vital warships, and what life was like on board. It also examines key actions they were involved in.

Author : Jonathan Parkinson
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788035217

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The Royal Navy, China Station: 1864 - 1941 by Jonathan Parkinson Pdf

A definitive history of the Royal Navy’s China Station. In the The Navy List for April 1864 the China Station was first shown as a separate Royal Navy Station . It remained as such until the outbreak of the Pacific War in December 1941 which was to signal the end of that era. In addition to a precis of the lives and naval careers of each of the Commanders in Chief of the China Station, this volume also gives relevant information outlining something of the concurrent internal affairs of China and Japan. Both are very different but sad tales, the former in decline towards the end of the Manchu Ch’ing dynasty and then into the chaotic 1920’s and 1930’s, and the latter increasingly adopting a militaristic attitude which was to result in their disaster of the Pacific War of 1941-1945. As a reminder of these days long gone are interwoven brief references to the British Consular Service. This is especially relevant for China, and for a shorter period for Japan during that era of extraterritoriality. Mention is also made of the British Colonial Service with whom, necessarily, the Navy worked very closely. In addition, being one important reason for it all, frequent references are made to a few British shipping and trading interests together with those of some other nations. All of these areas are linked together to give a definitive history of this very important Royal Navy Station.

Author : Bernard D. Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015005535417

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Gunboats and Marines by Bernard D. Cole Pdf

"The 1920s were years of turmoil in China, as revolution and civil war spread throughout the country. The many Americans then in China -- primarily missionaries, businessmen, and diplomats -- were caught in this upheaval. Their safety often depended on the armed protection of the sailors and marines of the United States Asiatic Fleet. In the middle 1920s, however, this fleet consisted of one cruiser, two divisions of submarines, about twenty destroyers, a dozen gunboats, and assigned Marine Corps detachments. This book tells the dramatic story of the role the United States Navy played during this tumultuous period of Chinese history"--Jacket.

Author : Mark Felton
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781590690

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China Station by Mark Felton Pdf

The Author, who lives in Shanghai, sets out to demonstrate that the British military has been at the forefront of many of the great changes that have swept China over the last two centuries.??He devotes chapters to the various wars, military adventures and rebellions that regularly punctuated Sino/British relationships since the 1st Opium War 1839-1842. This classic example of Imperial intervention saw the establishment of Hong Kong and Shanghai as key trading centres. The Second Opium War and the Taiping and Boxer Rebellions saw the advancement of British influence despite determined but unsuccessful efforts by the Chinese to loosen the grip of Western domination. The Royal Navy’s might ensured that, by ‘gunboat diplomacy’, trading rights and new posts were established and great fortunes made.??But in the 1940s the British grossly underestimated Japanese military might and intentions with disastrous results. After the Second World War the British returned to find that the Americans had supplanted them. The Communists’ victory in the Civil War sealed British and Western fates and, while Hong Kong remained under British control until 1997, the end of British rule was almost inevitable. But the handover was a masterly piece of pragmatic capitalism and the former Colony remains an economic powerhouse with strong British influence.

Author : Brian Lane Herder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472844620

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US Navy Gunboats 1885–1945 by Brian Lane Herder Pdf

A study of the history of the US Navy's gunboats and their role in building a worldwide American naval presence abroad and in combat, from the Yangtze era through to World War II. For more than half a century, American gunboats were the ships often responsible for policing small crises and provided deterrence and fast-response capabilities around the world – showing the flag, landing armed parties, patrolling river and littoral areas, and protecting ex-pats. They were often the United States' most-visible and constant military presence in far-flung foreign lands, and were most closely associated with the Far East, particularly the Philippines and China. Most famous, of course, was the multinational Yangtze Patrol. Many US gunboats were built, purchased or reassembled overseas where they usually served out their entire careers, never coming within 7,000 miles of the national homeland which they served. Numerous gunboats were captured from the Spanish during the 1898 war, many being raised from shallow graves, refurbished, and commissioned into USN service. The classic haunt of US gunboats was the Asiatic Station of China and the Philippines. Gunboat service overseas was typically exotic and the sailors' lives were often exciting and unpredictable. The major operational theatres associated with the US gunboats were the pre-1898 cruises and patrols of the earliest steel gunboats, the Spanish-American War of 1898 (both the Philippines and the Caribbean), the guerilla wars of the early 20th century Philippines and Latin America, the Asiatic Fleet and Yangtze Patrol of the 1890s–1930s, and finally World War II, which largely entailed operations in China, the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, Alaska, and on convoy routes. It was Japan's sudden 1941–1942 'Centrifugal Offensive' that effectively spelled the beginning of the end not just of most American gunboats, but also the century-old world order in Asia that had provided US gunboats with their primary mission.

Author : M. Heaslip
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1108688591

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Changes and Challenges by M. Heaslip Pdf

Author : Robert Erwin Johnson
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014174380

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Far China Station by Robert Erwin Johnson Pdf

Author : Angus Konstam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849084093

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Yangtze River Gunboats 1900–49 by Angus Konstam Pdf

From the end of the 19th century through the first half of the 20th, most Western powers maintained a naval presence in China. These gunboats protected traders and missionaries, safeguarded national interests, and patrolled Chinese rivers in search of pirates. It was a wild, lawless time in China as ruthless warlords fought numerous small wars to increase their power and influence. This book covers the gunboats of all the major nations that stationed naval forces in China, including America, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Japan, and looks at such famous incidents as the Japanese bombing of the USS Patay and the dramatic escape of the HMS Amethyst from Communist forces in 1947, which marked the end of the gunboat era.

Author : Donald R. Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Americans
ISBN : UCAL:$B106263

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China Station by Donald R. Morris Pdf

American sailor's love for White Russian girl in China.

Author : Jonathan Parkinson
Publisher : Troubador Publishing
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1789015146

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The Royal Navy, China Station by Jonathan Parkinson Pdf

A definitive history of the Royal Navy's China Station. In the The Navy List for April 1864 the China Station was first shown as a separate Royal Navy Station . It remained as such until the outbreak of the Pacific War in December 1941 which was to signal the end of that era. In addition to a precis of the lives and naval careers of each of the Commanders in Chief of the China Station, this volume also gives relevant information outlining something of the concurrent internal affairs of China and Japan. Both are very different but sad tales, the former in decline towards the end of the Manchu Ch'ing dynasty and then into the chaotic 1920's and 1930's, and the latter increasingly adopting a militaristic attitude which was to result in their disaster of the Pacific War of 1941-1945. As a reminder of these days long gone are interwoven brief references to the British Consular Service. This is especially relevant for China, and for a shorter period for Japan during that era of extraterritoriality. Mention is also made of the British Colonial Service with whom, necessarily, the Navy worked very closely. In addition, being one important reason for it all, frequent references are made to a few British shipping and trading interests together with those of some other nations. All of these areas are linked together to give a definitive history of this very important Royal Navy Station.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1052 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11305650

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The London and China Telegraph by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bryan Perrett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0785816046

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Gunboat! by Bryan Perrett Pdf

Britain, like other colonial powers, established, controlled and accessed her empire from the seas. armed ships able to operate in shallow coastal and river waters. steam-powered screw or paddle driven vessel, sufficiently fast and manoeuvrable to take the enemy, whether on shore or afloat, by surprise. action, ranging from the Burma war in 1824, through two world wars and on to the dramatic escape of the Amethyst down the Yangtze in 1949.

Author : Gregory Haines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : China
ISBN : 0356083152

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Gunboats on the Great River by Gregory Haines Pdf