The British Navy
The British Navy
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GBPSir Thomas Brassey (1836–1918), later Earl Brassey, was a politician with a particular interest in maritime affairs. He was a keen sailor, and his wife's accounts of their many voyages (also reissued in this series) were bestsellers. He subsequently became a Lord of the Admiralty and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, and Brassey's Naval Annual was for many years the authoritative survey of worldwide navies. This five-volume survey of the state of the British Navy was published between 1882 and 1883. Brassey was much involved with questions of the modernisation and reform of the Navy, at a time when international relations were marked by a maritime arms race. The books provide much technical detail about the different types of ship and weapons available to the Navy. Volume 1 surveys the development of armoured ships and mastless ships.
Product details
December 2010Paperback
9781108024655
740 pages
229 × 152 × 41 mm
1.07kg
335 b/w illus. 15 colour illus.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Outline of plan of book
- Part I. Armoured and Unarmoured Ships: Historical sketch
- 1. Our naval requirements in war
- 2. Classification of ships of war
- 3. Earliest ironclads
- 4. Progress of armoured shipbuilding in France, 1861–73
- 5. Early armoured construction in England
- 6. Converted ships
- 7. Sir E. J. Reed's system
- ships built from his designs
- 8. Ironclads built for the Austrian, German, Italian, Turkish, Russian, and Spanish navies, 1862–73
- 9. Monitors and earlier armoured vessels for coast service
- 10. Coast-service vessels of more recent type, and earlier mastless ironclads
- 11. Armoured cruisers
- 12. Bow-battery ships
- 13. Central battery ships
- 14. Masted turret-ships
- 15. Mastless turret-ships
- 16. Mastless barbette ships
- 17. Unarmoured cruisers and special vessels of the chief naval powers
- Index.
