Flag and Fleet
Author: William Wood
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2018-04-05
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 3732664341
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Flag and Fleet
Author: William Charles Henry Wood
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Published: 2021-03-31
Total Pages: 210
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKColonel Wood has endeavored to make plain, in a stirring and attractive manner, the value of Britain's Sea-Power. To read his Flag and Fleet will ensure that the lessons of centuries of war will be learnt, and that the most important lesson of them all is this--that, as an empire, we came into being by the Sea, and that we cannot exist without the Sea.
Flag and Fleet
Author: William Charles Henry Wood
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Published: 2020-09-16
Total Pages: 210
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBook Excerpt: ...ust as well as the British Grand Fleet commanded the North Sea in the Great War; and for the same reason, because their enemy was not strong enough to stop them. Whichever army can drive its enemy off the roads must win the war, because it can get what it wants from its base, (that is, from the places where its supplies of men and arms and food and every other need are kept); while its enemy will have to go without, being unable to get anything like enough, by bad and roundabout ways, to keep up the fight against men who can use the good straight roads. So it is with navies. The navy that can beat its enemy from all the shortest ways across the sea must win the war, because the merchant ships of its own country, like its men-of-war, can use the best routes from the bases to the front and back again; while the merchant ships of its enemy must either lose time by roundabout voyages or, what is sure to happen as the war goes on, be driven off the high seas altogether.The savages of long ago often took to...
Flag and Fleet: How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas
Author: William Charles Henry Wood
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1465547754
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFlags of Maritime Nations
Author: United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Equipment
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 150
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistory of the Flag of the United States of America
Author: George Henry Preble
Publisher:
Published: 1880
Total Pages: 906
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFlags of Maritime Nations
Author: United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Construction and Repair
Publisher:
Published: 1914
Total Pages: 172
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFlag and Fleet (Esprios Classics)
Author: William Wood
Publisher: Blurb
Published: 2020-10-02
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781715583057
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Charles Henry Wood, (1864-1947) was a Canadian historian, Scout leader and naturalist. He was born in Quebec City and served in the Royal Rifles of Canada from 1887 to the end of the World War One achieving the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was active in literary and history circles and served as President of the Quebec Literary and Historical Society. He was interested in nature conservation and advocated for bird sanctuaries in Labrador. He was also president of the scouts in Quebec in 1909. He was a prolific chronicler of Canadian history and wrote several books on the subject, most notably a five volume set on the history of Quebec entitled, The Storied Province of Quebec.
Rough Waters
Author: Rodney P Carlisle
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2017-01-15
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1682470873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRough Waters traces the evolution of the role of the U.S. merchant ship flag, and the U.S. merchant fleet itself. Rodney Carlisle looks at conduct and commerce at sea from the earliest days of the country, when battles at sea were fought over honor and the flag, to the current American-owned merchant fleet sailing under flags of convenience via foreign registries. Carlisle examines the world-wide use, legality, and continued acceptance of this practice, as well as measures to off-set its ill effects. Looking at the interwar period of 1919–1939, Carlisle examines how the practice of foreign registry of American-owned vessels began on a large scale, led by Standard Oil with tankers under the flag of the Free City of Danzig and followed by Panama. The work spells out how the United States helped further the practice of registry in Panama and Liberia after World War II. Rough Waters concludes with a look at how the practice of foreign registry shapes present-day commerce and labor relations.
Flags at Sea
Author: Timothy Wilson
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 144
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a history of the flags flown at sea by the principal naval powers - Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA - during the Age of Sail. The subject is one that has been obscured by curious myths and misunderstandings about where, when and why certain flags - like the piratical 'Jolly Roger' - were flown, and this book's narrative aims to unravel these issues. It also tackles such apparently complicated issues as signalling in peace and war.
