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 4 discusses the administration of the Navy and Admiralty, and of reserve forces.
Product details
December 2010Paperback
9781108024686
636 pages
229 × 36 × 152 mm
0.92kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface to fourth volume
- Part IV. Dockyards and Naval Organisation:
- 1. Controllership of the Navy
- 2. Dockyard administration
- 3. Professional officers of the Navy
- 4. Admiralty organisation
- 5. Recent naval administration
- 6. Our naval strength and policy
- 7. Maintenance and repairs of the Navy
- 8. State of the Navy as debated during the General Election, 1880
- 9. General policy of the Admiralty, and remarks on the Navy estimates, 1881 to 1883
- 10. Extra-Parliamentary speeches, 1881
- Part V. Naval Reserves:
- 1. Introductory remarks
- 2. Necessary strength of our Naval Reserves
- 3. Efficiency of the Royal Naval Reserve
- 4. Regulations for drill
- 5. Recruitment of the Reserve from the fishermen and seamen of the coasting trade
- 6. Regulations for the enrolment of boys in the third-class Royal Naval Reserve
- 7. The Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers
- 8. Steam Naval Reserve
- 9. Officers of the Coast Defence Forces
- 10. Colonial Naval Volunteer Force
- 11. Royal Naval Reserve
- 12. Strength of the Naval Reserve in 1882
- Part VI. Naval Training and Education:
- 1. Training of engineer officers
- 2. Memorandum on the training of seamen
- 3. English and foreign opinions on the instruction of the Navy in steam tactics
- 4. Motions in favour of abolishing a separate branch of officers for navigating duties
- 5. Dockyard and Naval officers
- 6. Education of officers for the mercantile marine
- 7. Experiences in the 'Sunbeam'
- Part VII. Retirements and Pensions: Naval officers of the Consular Service
- Appendix
- Index.
