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 3 includes discussions of naval policy and ship design, and Brassey's parliamentary papers.
Product details
December 2010Paperback
9781108024679
604 pages
229 × 34 × 152 mm
0.88kg
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Table of Contents
- Part III. Opinions on the Shipbuilding Policy of the Navy: Introduction
- Opinions on Naval Constructions for War:
- 1. Dimensions
- 2. Specialisation of types
- 3. Armour
- 4. Turret ships and monitors
- 5. Armaments
- 6. The ram as a naval weapon
- 7. Torpedoes and torpedo vessels
- 8. The 'Popoffka' type
- 9. Miscellaneous
- 10. Report of the Admiralty Committee on Designs for Ships of War, 1871
- 11. Papers and parliamentary speeches by compiler on designs for ships of war, 1876–1879.
