Author: Humphrey Hugh SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Admirals
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
An Admiral Never Forgets
Author: Humphrey Hugh SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Admirals
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
An Admiral Never Forgets. Reminiscences of Over Thirty-seven Years on the Active List of the Royal Navy ... With Illustrations
Author: Humphrey Hugh SMITHAn Admiral Never Forgets: Reminscences of Thirty-seven Years on the Active List of the Royal Navy
Author: Humphrey Hugh SmithAdmiral Never Forgets
Author: Humphrey Hugh SmithAn Admiral Never Forgets. Reminiscences ... of the Royal Navy, Etc. [With Plates.].
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Author: Humphrey Hugh SmithThe Challenges of Command
Author: Robert L. DavisonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317039157
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
In the period leading up to the First World War Britain's naval supremacy was challenged by an arms race with Germany, fuelled not only by military and geo-strategic rivalries, but an onrush of technological developments. As this book demonstrates, steam turbines, bigger guns, mechanical computing devices and ever increasing tonnage meant that the Royal Navy was forced to confront many long-cherished beliefs and sensitive social and political issues. By looking at key continuities over the period of 1880-1919 the study explores how the service and its officers attempted to deal with fundamental changes in professional requirements, and how cultural and social values underwent a transformation in the run up to the First World War. In particular the book looks at how the executive officer corps was presented with a revolution in naval affairs. As the Navy was transformed into an industrialized workplace, officers were challenged by an alteration in the 'culture of command' as arrangements carried over from the days of sail began to breakdown under the practical requirements of a steam and steel fleet. The book charts the ebb and flow of the debate and the various ideas put forward to deal with the structural challenges faced by the Royal Navy. The writings of reformers and commentators such as Fisher, Beresford, Corbett, Laughton and Mahan provide the background to the specific problems faced, and are analysed both in relation to the nature of the reforms implemented, and more crucially, the performance of the 'Senior Service' during the First World War.
We Fought Them On the Seas: Seven Years in the Royal Navy
Author: Lieut. Ian S. Menzies, D.S.C. R.N.V.R.Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0985368950
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
"Three months after Hitler's storm troopers marched into Poland on September 1, 1939, Ian Stuart Menzies was called from his job as an embryo reporter on the Glasgow Herald to become an embryo midshipman in the Royal Navy. His service took him from the Shetland Islands to the West Indies, to Africa's Belgian Congo; from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, from Dakar to Malta and then to Algiers, and on five different ships, three of them destroyers. He took part in the landings in North African [sic], Sicily, Italy and on D-Day in Normandy... His first visit to the United States was in 1943 to take over as executive officer of H.M.S. Stayner then being built at the Hingham Shipyard. The second visit in 1945 was to become British Naval Information Officer in New York City and to marry Barbara Newton of Hingham, Massachusetts, whom he had met at the shipyard on his first visit. The marriage took place in the oldest church of public worship in continuous service in the United States - The Old Ship Church in Hingham on June 16, 1945."--p. [4] cover.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Recollections of a Naval Life
Author: Sir James ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Endure No Makeshifts
Author: Henry LeachPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473813913
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
Sir Henry Leach spent forty-five years of active service in the Royal Navy, starting as a thirteen year old Cadet in 1937 and finishing as a fifty-nine year old Admiral of the Fleet in 1982. Son of a distinguished naval Captain, killed in action while commanding the Battleship Prince of Wales in 1941, he spent most of World War II at sea, mainly in the North Atlantic and the Far East.