The Royal Navy China Station

Author : Jonathan Parkinson
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Matthew Heaslip
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : Jonathan Parkinson
Publisher : Troubador Publishing
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : M. Heaslip
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1108688591

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Changes and Challenges by M. Heaslip Pdf

Author : Mark Felton
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Gerald Sandford Graham
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 : Grace Fox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429874567

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British Admirals and Chinese Pirates, 1832-1869 by Grace Fox Pdf

This study, first published in 1940, examines in detail the suppression of piracy in China. From a starting point of the considering the influence of the Admiralty on the development of British foreign policy in the nineteenth century, it studies the actions of the China Station and in particular its undertakings to suppress piracy in the Far East.

Author : Grace Estelle Fox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Admirals
ISBN : UCAL:$B294929

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British Admirals and Chinese Pirates, 1832-1869 by Grace Estelle Fox Pdf

Author : W. H. Fevyer,J. W. Wilson
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781781504253

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China War Medal 1900 by W. H. Fevyer,J. W. Wilson Pdf

For the first time, a complelte record meticulously compiled of all medals awarded to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines for the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, also including the following: Legation Guard New South Wales Defence Force Victorian Naval Defence Force South Australian Defence Force Royal Indian Marine Naval Depot Wei-Hai-Wei Medals analysed and listed by bars. All no-bar medals included. Returned and duplicate medals listed in full Medals presented by HM The King noted Full and detailed Casualty Roll compiled from various sources Selected Naval Despatches are included for a fuller insight into the part played by Naval Forces in the China War of 1900.

Author : Steven Gray
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137576422

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Steam Power and Sea Power by Steven Gray Pdf

This book examines how the expansion of a steam-powered Royal Navy from the second half of the nineteenth century had wider ramifications across the British Empire. In particular, it considers how steam propulsion made vessels utterly dependent on a particular resource – coal – and its distribution around the world. In doing so, it shows that the ‘coal question’ was central to imperial defence and the protection of trade, requiring the creation of infrastructures that spanned the globe. This infrastructure required careful management, and the processes involved show the development of bureaucracy and the reliance on the ‘contractor state’ to ensure this was both robust and able to allow swift mobilisation in war. The requirement to stop regularly at foreign stations also brought men of the Royal navy into contact with local coal heavers, as well as indigenous populations and landscapes. These encounters and their dissemination are crucial to our understanding of imperial relationships and imaginations at the height of the imperial age.

Author : Robert Erwin Johnson
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014174380

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Far China Station by Robert Erwin Johnson Pdf

Author : Robert Erwin Johnson
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612514826

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Far China Station by Robert Erwin Johnson Pdf

Far China Station was the first work to put nineteenth century American naval and diplomatic affairs in the Far East into clear perspective. Johnson examines the origins of the East India Squadron, defines its import role in the implementation of foreign policy and describes the dangers routinely faced by the squadron’s ships and sailors. Great and gallant ships move through the pages from the famous Olympia and the majestic Columbus to the plodding Palos. Naval heroes and the not-so-great, angry mobs, Japanese rebels, leaky boilers, imperious officials and infirm admirals are set against a background of uncertain anchorages, storms at sea, and the ravages of disease in the last years of the Old Navy.

Author : Rebecca Berens Matzke
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803235144

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Deterrence Through Strength by Rebecca Berens Matzke Pdf

The notion of a Pax Britannica?a concept implying that Britain?s overwhelming strength enforced global peace in the era that began with Napoleon?s defeat in 1815?largely ended with the British Empire itself. Although most historians still view this period as a departure from the eighteenth century, when lengthy coalition wars were commonplace, critics argue that Britain had only limited means of exercising power in the nineteenth century and that British military or naval strength played an insignificant role in preserving peace. ø In Deterrence through Strength, Rebecca Berens Matzke reveals how Britain?s diplomatic and naval authority in the early Victorian period was not circumstantial but rather based on real economic and naval strength as well as on resolute political leadership. The Royal Navy?s main role in the nineteenth century was to be a deterrent force, a role it skillfully played. With its intimidating fleet, enhanced by steam technology, its great reserves and ship-building capacity, and its secure financial, economic, and political supports, British naval power posed a genuine threat. In examining three diplomatic crises?in North America, China, and the Mediterranean?Matzke demonstrates that Britain did indeed influence other nations with its navy?s offensive capabilities but always with the goal of preserving peace, stability, and British diplomatic freedom.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Smashbooks
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : China
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Chinese Navy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cyprian A. G. Bridge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1911248243

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History of the Russian Fleet During the Reign of Peter the Great by Cyprian A. G. Bridge Pdf

This is unusual among the Society's volumes in not dealing with British naval history. It prints a history of the Russian Baltic fleet from its foundation, written in 1724 by an unidentified Englishman, evidently a sea officer in Russian service. The author has recently been identified as Captain John Deane - see Richard H Warner, 'Captain John Deane: Mercenary, Diplomat and Spy', in People of the Northern Seas, ed. Lewis R Fischer and Walter Minchinton (St John's, Newfoundland, 1992), pp 157-173.