20th Century Naval Dockyards
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Published: 2015
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ISBN-13: 9780992929206
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A Guide to the Naval Records in the National Archives of the UK
Author: Randolph Cock
Publisher: Institute of Historical Research
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9781905165391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChatham Historic Dockyard
Author: Sir Neil Cossons
Publisher: Historic England
Published: 2021-05
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781800859494
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNowhere in the world is it possible to see such an intact naval dockyard for the building and maintenance of the ships of the sailing navy as at Chatham. This book, edited by Neil Cossons, Jonathan Coad, Andrew Lambert, Paul Hudson and Paul Jardine - all experts in their fields - brings together their combined knowledge to tell the dockyard's history, from Elizabethan origins to fleet base and shipbuilding yard, from sail to steel to submarines. They set out the extraordinary scale of the legacy and the challenges of the future once the yard closed in the 1980s. This is a story of the creation of the Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust and the management of an outstanding historic asset for the benefit of the public. Profusely illustrated, it is the first authoritative account of how Chatham's dockyard was saved for the nation and managed for nearly forty years to exemplary standards.
Rosyth Dockyard and Naval Base Through Time
Author: Walter Burt
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2016-01-15
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 1445648970
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of Rosyth Dockyard and Naval Base, showing how it has changed and developed over the last hundred years.
The Royal Dockyards, 1690-1850
Author: J. G. Coad
Publisher: Gower Publishing Company, Limited
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 440
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKScience, Utility and British Naval Technology, 1793–1815
Author: Roger Morriss
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-10-07
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 1000203735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the technology employed by the British navy changed not just the material resources of the British navy but the culture and performance of the royal dockyards. This book examines the role of the Inspector General of Naval Works, an Admiralty office occupied by Samuel Bentham between 1796 and 1807, which initiated a range of changes in dockyard technology by the construction of experimental vessels, the introduction of non-recoil armament, the reconstruction of Portsmouth yard, and the introduction of steam-powered engines to pump water, drive mass-production machinery and reprocess copper sheathing. While primarily about the technology, this book also examines the complementary changes in the industrial culture of the dockyards. For it was that change in culture which permitted the dockyards at the end of the Wars to maintain a fleet of unprecedented size and engage in warfare both with the United States of America and with Napoleonic Europe.
Building the Steam Navy
Author: David Evans
Publisher: Conway Maritime Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy the end of the Napoleonic wars, the Royal Navy's shore-based facilities employed nearly 16,000 people in Great Britain and formed the greatest manufacturing complex in the world. This volume recounts the development of the dockyards and their infrastructure, logistics, and operations as the introduction of new technology forged a revolution in ship design and construction. It spans the construction of the first purpose-built workshops for maintenance and repair in 1830 to the symbolic end of the Victorian era in the Royal Navy with the completion of HMS Dreadnought in 1906. The book includes chapters on Woolwich and the first steam factory; iron construction; the technological edge; Greene, Scamp and the integrated factory; HMS Volcano and the development of mobile logistics; mechanization; building the first iron warships; and coaling the navy. Fully illustrated with plans, drawings, engravings, and maps, this comprehensive history is both an essential reference and fascinating reading.
The Royal Navy 1793-1800
Author: Mark Jessop
Publisher: Pen & Sword History
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781526720337
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrance declared war upon the British in 1793. The burden to conduct a long conflict proved heavy for that island nation. Poverty increased. Liberties and freedoms were sometimes taken away. Thousands of men had to leave their families, and disease, desertion and death meant that many never returned. At first the Royal Navy barely had enough warships to cope, but eight years later she had more than enough. By that time a threat of invasion towards Ireland prompted Parliament to enact a new nation, christened The United Kingdom of Great Britain. As such, 1800 became the final year of the old Kingdom of Great Britain. As she passed away, many of her men and women might have wondered as to what had made her navy a true Neptune. What had assisted the slow birth of a naval 'superpower'? This book seeks to answer that very question.
English/British Naval History to 1815
Author: Eugene L. Rasor
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2004-10-30
Total Pages: 900
ISBN-13: 0313073112
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe English/British have always been known as the sailor race with hearts of oak: the Royal Navy as the Senior Service and First Line of Defense. It facilitated the motto: The sun never set on the British Empire. The Royal Navy has exerted a powerful influence on Great Britain, its Empire, Europe, and, ultimately, the world. This superior annotated bibliography supplies entries that explore the influence of the English/British Navy through its history. This survey will provide a major reference guide for students and scholars at all levels. It incorporates evaluative, qualitative, and critical analysis processes, the essence of historical scholarship. Each one of the 4,124 annotated entries is evaluated, assessed, analyzed, integrated, and incorporated into the historiographical scholarship.
The British Navy's Victualling Board, 1793-1815
Author: Janet W. Macdonald
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1843835533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of the Royal Navy's Victualling Board, the body responsible for supplying the fleet. During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the Royal Navy increased its manpower from fewer than 20,000 to more than 147,000 men, with a concomitant increase in the quantities of food and drink required to sustain them.The organisation responsible for this, the Victualling Board, performed its tasks using techniques and systems which it had developed over the previous 110 years. In terms of actually delivering supplies to warships, troopships and army garrisons abroad, the Victualling Board performed well given the constraints of long-distance communications and intermittent difficulties in obtaining supplies. However, its other areas of responsibility showed poor performance, as evidenced by the reports of several Parliamentary enquiries. This book examines in detail the processes by which the Victualling Board performed its core and non-core tasks, identifying the areas of competence and incompetence, and establishing the underlying causes of the incompetencies. JANET MACDONALD, author of the highly acclaimed Feeding Nelson's Navy (Chatham, 2004), has recently completed a thesis at King's College London. After a business career, and running an equestrian organisation, she spent ten years as a freelance writer, publishing more than thirty books.
