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Author : William Milbourne James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037981847
Author : William Milburne James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:164616044
Author : Sir William James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:59599929
Author : W. M. James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1123969307
Author : William Milburne James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:246321733
Author : William Milbourne James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:560979666
Author : Christian Buchet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843838012
An analysis of how Britain developed a superb supply system for the navy, with beneficial consequences both for victory in war and for Britain's economic development.
Author : Earl Thomas Brassey Brassey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433008487617
Author : William Milbourne James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015005203883
Author : John Leyland
Publisher : GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 42,7 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...
Author : Cyril Field
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547131304
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The British Navy Book" by Cyril Field. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Arthur Joseph Hungerford Pollen
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066152055
The British Navy in Battle by Arthur Joseph Hungerford Pollen is about Pollen's recollections of the advances of the British navy during a battle on the Christmas of 1915. Excerpt: "To the Admirals, Captains, Officers and Men of the Royal Navy and of the Royal Naval Reserve: To the men of the merchant service and the landsmen who have volunteered for work afloat: To all who are serving or fighting for their country at sea: To all naval officers who are serving—much against their will—on land: Greetings, good wishes and gratitude from all landsmen. We do not wish you a Merry Christmas, for to none of us, neither do you at sea nor to us on land, can Christmas be a merry season now. Nor, amid so much misery and sorrow, does it seem, at first sight, reasonable to carry the conventional phrase further and wish you a Happy New Year. But happiness is a different thing from merriment."
Author : THOMAS BRASSEY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2812 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 110802470X
Author : Harold Wheeler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015063787819
Author : Clive Wilkinson
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1843830426
"Prominent in building Britain's maritime empire in the eighteenth century, the Royal Navy also had a significant impact on politics, public finance and the administrative and bureaucratic development of the British state. The Navy was the most expensive branch of the state, and its effective funding and maintenance was a problem that taxed the ingenuity of a succession of politicians, naval officers and bureaucrats. The Navy, in many ways a victim of its own success, grew faster than the infrastructure that supported it and the public purse that funded it. By the middle of the century the difficulties this growth created had become critical, and the challenge this presented was taken up by Admiralty Boards led by Anson, Egmont, Hawke and Sandwich. Resolving these problems introduced administrative reforms and innovations in the Navy's administration and in public finance, some of which pre-figured later bureaucratic development. There was however a political price to pay, when the management of the Navy and its apparent unpreparedness for the War of American Independence made the Earl of Sandwich and the Navy a focus for political opposition to an unpopular government and a disappointing war."--BOOK JACKET.
