The 50 Gun Ship

Author : Rif Winfield
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015040169974

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The 50-gun Ship by Rif Winfield Pdf

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.

Author : Robert Gardiner
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473820548

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Warships of the Napoleonic Era by Robert Gardiner Pdf

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.

Author : Lloyd's Register of Shipping
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6NV9

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Particulars of the War Ships of the World by Lloyd's Register of Shipping Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Marine insurance
ISBN : NYPL:33433023271467

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Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Harding
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843835806

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The Emergence of Britain's Global Naval Supremacy by Richard Harding Pdf

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.

Author : Jean Boudriot
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015011857060

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The Seventy-four Gun Ship: Hull construction by Jean Boudriot Pdf

Author : Brian Lavery
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848322141

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The Ship of the Line by Brian Lavery Pdf

The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artefacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the shipbuilders themselves, and ranging from the mid seventeenth century to the present day. As such they represent a three-dimensional archive of unique importance and authority. Treated as historical evidence, they offer more detail than even the best plans, and demonstrate exactly what the ships looked like in a way that even the finest marine painter could not achieve. ?The Ship of the Line is the second of a new series that takes selections of the best models to tell the story of specific ship types – in this case, the evolution of the ship of the line, the capital ship of its day, and the epitome of British seapower during its heyday from 1650–1850. This period too coincided with the golden age of ship modelling.?Each volume depicts a wide range of models, all shown in full colour, including many close-up and detail views. These are captioned in depth, but many are also annotated to focus attention on interesting or unusual features, and the book weaves the pictures into an authoritative text, producing a unique form of technical history.?The series is of particular interest to ship modellers, but all those with an enthusiasm for the ship design and development in the sailing era will attracted to the in-depth analysis of these beautifully presented books.

Author : Robert Gardiner
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612519678

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Warships of the Napoleonic Era by Robert Gardiner Pdf

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. A large number of enemy warships were captured in battle and the Admiralty ordered accurate drafts to be made of many of these prizes. Consequently, ships from the navies of France, Spain, the United States, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, as well as from Britain, were illustrated by an unprecedented variety of paintings, drawings, models or plans.

Author : Eric Gautier
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781739214258

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The Adventures of Laforest - Dombourg: Volume Two by Eric Gautier Pdf

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.

Author : Philip Howard Colomb
Publisher : London, W.H. Allen & Company, Limited
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Naval art and science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105047561712

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Naval Warfare by Philip Howard Colomb Pdf

Author : Philip Howard Colomb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Naval art and science
ISBN : CHI:20282411

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Naval Warfare, Its Ruling Principles and Practice Historically Treated by Philip Howard Colomb Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : CORNELL:31924069256893

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Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rif Winfield,Stephen S Roberts
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473893535

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French Warships in the Age of Sail, 1626–1786 by Rif Winfield,Stephen S Roberts Pdf

“The first comprehensive listing of these ships in English. . . . Profusely illustrated [and] impressively informative.” —Midwest Book Review The origins of a permanent French sailing navy can be traced to the work of Cardinal Richelieu in the 1620s, but this naval force declined rapidly in the 1650s and a virtually new Marine Royale had to be re-created by Colbert from 1661. Thereafter, Louis XIV’s navy grew rapidly to become the largest and most powerful in the world, at the same time establishing a reputation for the quality of its ship design that lasted until the end of sail. The eighteenth century was to see defeat and decline, revival and victory, but by 1786 the French Navy had emerged from its most successful naval war having frequently outfought or outmaneuvred the British Navy in battle, and in the process making a major contribution to American independence. This book provides significant technical and building data as well as highlights of the careers of each ship in every class. For the first time, it is possible to form a clear picture of the overall development of French warships throughout the whole of the sailing era. “A handy and quick reference to a variety of vessels . . . [A] top notch reference book.” —British Tars, 1740-1790

Author : Joseph Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UIUC:30112062967549

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Battles of the British Navy by Joseph Allen Pdf

Author : Joseph Allen (of Greenwich hosp.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024401232

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Battles of the British navy: from A.D.1000 to 1840 by Joseph Allen (of Greenwich hosp.) Pdf