Author: Great Britain. AdmiraltyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Complete List of Steam Ships, Steam Launches and Sailing Ships on the List of the Navy, 1st April, 1869
Author: Great Britain. AdmiraltyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Complete List of Steam Ships, Steam Boats and Sailing Ships Etc of the Navy 1891-1901
Author: Great Britain. AdmiraltyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels
Author: United States. Navy DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1312
Book Description
Ships' Data, U. S. Naval Vessels, 1911-
Author: United States. Navy DeptPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
French Warships in the Age of Steam 1859–1914
Author: Stephen S RobertsPublisher: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1526745364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
In 1859 the French navy was at a high point, having fought alongside the British in the Crimean War and developed a formidable fleet of fast wooden-hulled steam ships of the line. But in that very year the world’s navies had to start over again when French naval architect Dupuy de Lôme introduced the ironclad battleship. The French navy then went through three tumultuous phases. In the 1860s and 1870s it focused on building a new traditionally-structured fleet in which wooden-hulled battleships gave way to iron and steel ships with massive guns and armour. In the 1880s and 1890s this effort was disrupted by a vigorous contest between battleship sailors and advocates of fast steel cruisers and small torpedo craft, leaving France by the end of the 1890s with few new battleships (none as large as the best foreign ships) but some two hundred torpedo boats. The Fashoda crisis in 1898 revealed the weakness of the French navy and between 1900 and 1914 the French focused on building a strong battle fleet. In 1914 this fleet remained well behind those of Britain and Germany in numbers, but taken individually French warships remained among the best in the world. This book is the first comprehensive listing in English of the over 1400 warships that were added to the official French navy fleet list between 1 January 1859 and World War I. It includes everything from the largest battleships to a small armoured gunboat that looked like a floating egg. The ships are listed in three separate parts to keep contemporary ships together and then by ship type and class. For each class the book provides a design history explaining why the ships were built, substantial technical characteristics for the ships as completed and after major reconstructions, and selected career milestones including the ultimate fate of each ship. Like its predecessors written jointly with Rif Winfield, French Warships in the Age of Sail 1626-1786 and French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786-1861, with which it forms the third in a trilogy, it provides a complete picture of the overall development of French warships over a period of almost three centuries.
Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States
Author: List of Merchant Vessels of the United States, with the Official Numbers and Signal Letters Awarded to Them
Author: United States. Department of the Treasury. Bureau of StatisticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
Author: Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
Author: United States. Naval History DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
British Warships in the Age of Sail 1817-1863
Author: Rif WinfieldPublisher: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1848321694
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The publication of this book sees the completion of a monumental work listing the technical details and career histories of every significant British warship between 1603 and 1863. Following three earlier volumes, this one carries forward the story from the post-Napoleonic War reorganisation of the Royal Navy's rating system to the end of sail as the principal mode of propulsion. ??Although apparently well documented, this is a period of great complexity in the procurement and naval architecture of ships. The introduction of steam radically altered the design of vessels under construction and was later retro-fitted to others, while many 'names' lived a ghostly existence on the Navy List: ships ordered but not started, and in some cases having their intended draughts altered more than once before being cancelled entirely.??This book meticulously sorts out and clarifies these confusions _ a major contribution in itself _ but for the first time it also provides outline service histories for an era that is largely neglected. Like its companion volumes, the book is organised by Rate, classification and class, with significant technical and building data, followed by a concise summary of the careers of each ship in every class. ??With its unique depth of information, this is a work of the utmost importance to every naval historian and general reader interested in the navy of the sailing era and the formative years of the steam navy that supplanted it.