Routledge, 2006. — 257 p. Investigating the employment of British aircraft against German submarines during the final years of the First World War, this new book places anti-submarine campaigns from the air in the wider history of the First World War. The Royal Naval Air Service invested heavily in aircraft of all types—aeroplanes, seaplanes, airships, and kite balloons—in...
Head of Zeus, 2015. — 368 p. Admiral Lord Cuthbert Collingwood, the eldest son of a Newcastle merchant, went to sea in 1761 at the age of thirteen. In his nearly fifty years in the Navy he rose to become a fine seaman, a master of gunnery, a battle commander the equal of his friend - and rival in love - Nelson. He was also an accomplished writer and wit, a doting father,...
Little Brown Book Group, 2011. — 471 p. The Royal Navy to which Admiral Lord Nelson sacrificed his life depended on thousands of sailors and marines to man the great wind-powered wooden warships. Drawn from all over Britain and beyond, often unwillingly, these ordinary men made the navy invincible through skill, courage and sheer determination. Yet their contribution is...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2008. — 534 p. A brutal, action-packed account of the sea battles of the Napoleonic War by the author of the bestselling Nelson’s Trafalgar and co-author of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History. As he did with his much lauded Nelson’s Trafalgar, Roy Adkins (now writing with wife Lesley) again thrusts readers into the perils...
Penguin Books, 2006. — 392 p. In the tradition of Antony Beevor's Stalingrad, Nelson's Trafalgar presents the definitive blow-by-blow account of the world's most famous naval battle, when the British Royal Navy under Lord Horatio Nelson dealt a decisive blow to the forces of Napoleon. The Battle of Trafalgar (1805) comes boldly to life in this definitive work that re-creates those...
Penguin Books, 2006. — 432 p. In the tradition of Antony Beevor's Stalingrad, Nelson's Trafalgar presents the definitive blow-by-blow account of the world's most famous naval battle, when the British Royal Navy under Lord Horatio Nelson dealt a decisive blow to the forces of Napoleon. The Battle of Trafalgar comes boldly to life in this definitive work that re-creates those...
Neil Wilson, 2009. — 73 р. — ISBN: 1906476071. The Clyde has played a major part in warfare in the 20th century. Its most obvious contribution was as the main source of shipping which was supplied to the Royal Navy and the merchant navy. Many of its other stories are less familiar, not least the actual conflict that took place against German U-boats not far off the mainland....
Viking Adult, 2003. — 491 p. More than two centuries have passed since Master's Mate Fletcher Christian mutinied against Lieutenant Bligh on a small, armed transport vessel called Bounty. Why the details of this obscure adventure at the end of the world remain vivid and enthralling is as intriguing as the truth behind the legend. In giving the Bounty mutiny its historical due,...
Pen and Sword Military, 2015. — 160 p. Although many books have been written about T E Lawrence and the Arab Revolt, none before has fully explored the pivotal role of the Royal Navy in the Red Sea at the time. This is the first book to be written about the Navy’s role in the success of the Arab Revolt in the creation of the legendary figure of Lawrence of Arabia. Following...
Vandenhoeck Ruprecht, 2012. — 345 p. Die Royal Navy Weltaneignung durch Wissen Machtpolitik auf den Meeren wie sich Großbritannien seine Weltmachtstellung im 19. Jahrhundert sicherte.Die Royal Navy war im frühen 19. Jahrhundert auf allen Weltmeeren präsent. Sie war nicht nur ein Instrument der Seekriegsführung, sondern auch dafür zuständig, die Wildnis Tasmaniens in einen...
Duke Classics, 2013. — 70 p. Military history buffs will appreciate this exhaustively researched and richly detailed early biography of British Admiral John Jellicoe, a leader in the British Navy who rose to prominence for his battlefield successes during World War I, including, most notably, for his unconventional but successful tactics in the Battle of Jutland.
Pen and Sword, 2003. — 224 p. There is no current warship in the Royal Navy called HMS London, but vessels carrying the name have featured for better or worse in some of the most controversial episodes of British naval history. For example, the wooden wall battleship HMS London of the late 18th Century could be called 'the ship that lost America' while the heavy cruiser of WW2 was...
Pen and Sword, 2010. — 288 p. In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck, accompanied by heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, broke out into the Atlantic, to attack Allied shipping. The Royal Navy's pursuit and subsequent destruction of Bismarck was an epic of naval warfare. In this new account of those dramatic events at the height of the Second World War, Iain Ballantyne draws...
Amberley Publishing, 2015. — 160 p. For more than 150 years it was the world’s most powerful force: between victory at Trafalgar in 1805 and the withdrawal from ‘east of Suez’ in the 1960s, the ships of the Royal Navy were ubiquitous. From Newfoundland to New South Wales and Cyprus to Ceylon, the Royal Navy was there, protecting British interests, projecting British power and...
Dundurn Press, 2009. — 192 p. David Wingfield joined the Royal Navy in 1806, at the age of fourteen. His service took him to the Great Lakes during the War of 1812. Captured, he was a POW in the United States for nine months. Following his release, Wingfield had some intriguing adventures on the Upper Great Lakes before returning to England. Once home, he used his handwritten...
Dundurn Press, 2023. — 432 p. The untold story of Point Frederick, where early nineteenth-century Canadians built warships that stopped invasion, brought peace, and the world’s longest undefended border. Opposite Kingston, Point Frederick became the 1789 dockyard home of the navy on Lake Ontario. Armed vessels were built to transport settlers and the military. War in 1812...
University of Toronto Press, 2003. — 452 p. Jerry Bannister's "The Rule of the Admirals" examines governance in Newfoundland from the rule of the fishing admirals in 1699 to the establishment of representative government in 1832. It offers the first in-depth account of the rise and fall of the system of naval government that dominated the island for more than a century. In this...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2007. — 224 p. The 200 years that separate the navy of Drake's day from that of Nelson were critical for the development of Britain's sea power, and the decade of the Commonwealth, of Cromwell's rule, is one of the turning points in the story. In the aftermath of a disastrous civil war and the execution of Charles I, the navy fought to defend the frail...
Patrick Crean Editions, 2022. — 544 p. The Battle of the Atlantic, Canada’s longest continuous military engagement of the Second World War, lasted 2,074 days, claiming the lives of more than 4,000 men and women in the Royal Canadian Navy, the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Canadian merchant navy. The years 2019 to 2025 mark the eightieth anniversary of the longest battle of...
Endeavour Press, 2016. — 372 p. A lean and hungry breed of warship, the battle cruisers burned their names deeply into the annals of sea-warfare. Fast and heavy-gunned, the battle-cruiser could overhaul and destroy anything at sea except the battleship. The brain child of Admiral Jacky Fisher, the battle-cruiser was intended to be light, fast, and able to avoid action with...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 584 p. This historical analysis of the problems faced by the British navy during the War of 1739-1748 also sheds light on the character, limitations, and potentialities of eighteenth-century British administration. Originally published in 1965.
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. — 152 p. Actor Richard Beale was a young officer in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. In the summer of 2014, he sat down to write a memoir of that time, now more than 70 years ago. The result is an engaging and often humorous account of his wartime service in the Royal Navy, from just prior to joining up until his demobilisation and...
Patrick Stephens Ltd., 1996. — 200 p. Once the world's largest and most powerful naval force, the Royal Navy is now moving towards the second division as regards the number of ships, bu it has managed to maintain its position as number one in training, personnel and professionalism. The challenge for the Royal Navy as it moves towards the 21st century is to maintain that...
Arms and Armour Press, 1985. — 75 p. After the Second World War, the decline of the British Empire and the economic hardships in Britain forced the reduction in the size and capability of the Royal Navy. The Navy began plans to replace its fleet of aircraft carriers in the mid-1960s. A plan was drawn up for three large aircraft carriers, each displacing about 60,000 tons; the...
Routledge, 2023. — 620 p. This collection covers the period February 1862-March 1864, which constituted the final two years and one month that Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander Milne commanded the Royal Navy’s North America and West India Station. Its chief focus is upon Anglo-American relations in the midst of the American Civil War. Whilst the most high-profile cause of tension...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 228 p. — (Global Studies in Social and Cultural Maritime History). This book examines the British Admiralty’s engagement with science and technological innovation in the nineteenth century. It is a book about people, and gross misunderstanding, about the dreams and disappointments of scientific workers and inventors in relation to the administrators...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 432 p. Winston Churchill had a longer and closer relationship with the Royal Navy than any British statesman in modern times, but his record as a naval strategist and custodian of the nation's sea power has been mired in controversy since the ill-fated Dardanelles campaign in 1915. Today, Churchill is still regarded by many as an inept strategist...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. — 252 p. The Politics of Seapower: the ‘One-Power Standard’ and British Maritime Security. ‘Main Fleet to Bermuda’: Naval Strategy for an Anglo-American War. Far Eastern War Plans and the Myth of the Singapore Strategy. ‘The Ultimate Potential Enemy’: Nazi Germany and British Defense Dilemmas. The Search for the ‘Knockout Blow’: War Plans against...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. — 295 p. This book thoroughly explores and analyses naval policy during the period of austerity that followed the First World War. During this post-war period, as the Royal Navy identified Japan its likely opponent in a future naval war, the British Government was forced to “tighten its belt” and cut back on naval expenditure in the interests of...
University of Plymouth Press, 2012. — 304 p. In late 1944, the German battleship Tirpitz was sunk by RAF Bomber Command. While it was the RAF that delivered the final coup de grace, it was the Royal Navy, from 1942 to 1944, that had contained, crippled and neutralised the German battleship in a series of actions marked by innovation, boldness and bravery. From daring commando...
Endeavour Press Ltd., 2013. — 322 p. Nearly two centuries after his death, does Nelson deserve his reputation as one of the world's great commanders? Nelson's triumphs have so caught the public imagination that his failures are barely remembered. His only victorious battles at sea was Trafalgar (at Copenhagen and the Nile his destroyed ships at anchor), while his infatuation with...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2017. — 264 p. In 1919, the new governments of the besieged Baltic states appealed desperately to the Allies for assistance. A small British flotilla of light cruisers and destroyers were sent to help, under the command of Rear Admiral Sir Walter Cowan. They were given no clear instructions as to what their objective was to be and so Cowan decided that...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2017. — 264 p. In 1919, the new governments of the besieged Baltic states appealed desperately to the Allies for assistance. A small British flotilla of light cruisers and destroyers were sent to help, under the command of Rear Admiral Sir Walter Cowan. They were given no clear instructions as to what their objective was to be and so Cowan decided that...
Whittles Publishing, 2013. — 161 p. A remarkable and exciting true story of young British Naval Officer, including his escape and evasion behind enemy lines in Italy, Yugoslavia and Germany; life in a PoW camp and adventure in the Indian Ocean during of World War II.
George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2006. — 352 p. Nicholas Best is a master story teller, the author of several highly successful novels as well as serious history books. He was the fiction critic for ten years and reviews regularly for the Sunday Times and TLS. In his hands the story of Trafalgar comes to life as never before. Beginning with a vivid recreation of Napoleon's army...
Seafort Publishing, 2021. — 224 p. This book documents the history, design, modification, and fitting of HMS Terror, one of the world's most successful polar exploration vessels. Part historical narrative and part technical design manual, this book provides, for the first time, a complete account of Terror's unique career, as well as an assessment of her sailing abilities in...
Conway Publishing, 2012. — 448 p. Elizabeth's Sea Dogs investigates the rise and fall of a unique group of adventurers – men like Francis Drake, John Hawkins, Martin Frobisher and Walter Raleigh. Seen by the English as heroes but by the Spanish as pirates, they were expert seafarers and controversial characters. This riveting new account reveals them for what they were: extremely...
Conway Publishing, 2012. — 448 p. Elizabeth's Sea Dogs investigates the rise and fall of a unique group of adventurers – men like Francis Drake, John Hawkins, Martin Frobisher and Walter Raleigh. Seen by the English as heroes but by the Spanish as pirates, they were expert seafarers and controversial characters. This riveting new account reveals them for what they were:...
Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 161 p. A familiar sight on the Thames at London Bridge, HMS Belfast is a Royal Navy light cruiser, launched in March 1938. Belfast was part of the British naval blockade against Germany and from November 1942 escorted Arctic convoys to the Soviet Union and assisted in the destruction of the German warship Scharnhorst. In June 1944 Belfast supported the...
Boydell Press, 2018. — 238 p. The civil wars in England, Scotland and Ireland in the period 1638-1653 are usually viewed from the perspective of land warfare. This book, on the other hand, presents a comprehensive overview of the wars from a maritime perspective. It considers the structure, organisation and Manning of the parliamentarian, royalist, and Irish confederate navies,...
Periscope Publishing, 2006. — 208 p. The Type 41 or Leopard class were a class of anti-aircraft defence frigates built for the Royal Navy (4 ships) and Indian Navy (3 ships) in the 1950s. The Type 41, together with the Type 61 variant introduced diesel propulsion into the Royal Navy, the perceived benefits being long range, low fuel use, reduced crew (especially skilled...
Pen and Sword, 2007. — 224 p. The importance of marine salvage during armed conflict has been vastly underestimated since becoming a vital Naval arm during the First World War. Between 1915 and 1918 the Admiralty Salvage Section saved nearly 400 merchant vessels, desperately needed to bring food and war materials into Britain. During the Second World War, some two million tons...
Northern Book Centre, 1988. — 267 p. The Royal Indian Navy revolt encompasses a total strike and subsequent revolt by Indian sailors of the Royal Indian Navy on board ship and shore establishments at Bombay harbour on 18 February 1946. From the initial flashpoint in Bombay, the revolt spread and found support throughout British India, from Karachi to Calcutta, and ultimately...
Naval Institute Press, 2017. — 577 p. The Royal Navy in Eastern Waters tells the compelling story of how the Royal Navy secured the strategic space from Egypt in the west to Australasia in the East through the first half of World War II. It explains why this contribution, made while the Soviet Union’s fate remained in the balance and before American economic power took effect, was...
Open Road Media, 2017. — 252 p. The authoritative biography of British explorer Sir Francis Drake, from the bestselling author of The Great Siege. Long considered one of the great heroes of British history, Sir Francis Drake was a brilliant navigator, intrepid explorer, and fearsome warrior in Queen Elizabeth’s Royal Navy. He was also a pirate and profiteer who made a small...
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. — 368 p. Horatio Nelson, son of a clergyman, is the most celebrated admiral in British history. He entered the navy at age 12, made captain by 20. British policy was to contain the dominant European power which during Nelson's lifetime, was Napoleon's France. The two nations hated well. Providence sailed with Nelson at Trafalgar, off the coast...
Edwin Mellen Press, 1999. — 535 p. Bradley pulls together the threads of much of his previous work and extends it chronologically and geographically to provide a broad survey of British maritime activities in the New World and beyond from the first Bristol voyages of the 15th century to the beginning of the 19th. He approaches the task geographically, with sections on the West...
London: Henry Colburn, 1837. — 640 p. Captain Edward Pelham Brenton, CB (20 July 1774 – 13 April 1839) was an officer of the British Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, who military career was relatively quiet, apart from involvement in the capture of Martinique in 1809. Brenton became famous in the aftermath of the war, when he published the Naval...
London: Henry Colburn, 1837. — 728 p. Captain Edward Pelham Brenton, CB (20 July 1774 – 13 April 1839) was an officer of the British Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, who military career was relatively quiet, apart from involvement in the capture of Martinique in 1809. Brenton became famous in the aftermath of the war, when he published the Naval...
Naval Institute Press, 2017. — 272 p. Neglected Skies uses a reconsideration of the clash between the British Eastern Fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy's First Air Fleet in the Indian Ocean in April 1942 to draw a larger conclusion about declining British military power in the era. In this book, Angus Britts explores the end of British naval supremacy from an operational...
Pen and Sword, 2015. — 336 p. Admiral Sir Dudley Pound served for longer on the Chiefs of Staff Committee in wartime than any other serviceman in either of the two World Wars. He was the professional head of the Royal Navy from July 1939 until his resignation, shortly before his death, in August 1943. He had to cope with the problems of Hitler by day and Churchill by night, of...
Gravesend: World Ship Society, 1999. — 243 p. — ISBN: 0-905617-89-4 A compendium of warships built on the Tyne by Armstrong Works between 1867 and 1927, from gunboats to dreadnoughts. This World Ship Society book provides technical information on all of Armstrong's ships built 1867 - 1927, in a clear and easy reading. The ships are arranged in type, and ranged from the earliest...
Naval Institute Press, 2010. — 208 p. In this book, the sequel to the highly acclaimed Warrior to Dreadnought, renowned warship author D. K. Brown brings his knowledge and experience as a warship designer to the story of the Royal Navy's development of World War I warships and the influence of that conflict on future warship design. The launch of HMS Dreadnought in 1906 ushered in...
Seaforth Publishing, 2012. — 224 p. In the 50 years that separated HMS Warrior from Dreadnought there was a revolution in warship design unparalleled in naval history. It was a period that began with the fully rigged broadside ironclads and ended with the emergence of the great battleships and battle cruisers of World War I. Noted naval historian D.K. Brown explains how the...
Pen and Sword, 2012. — 208 p. This design history of post-war British warship development, based on both declassified documentation and personal experience, is the fourth and final volume in the authors masterly account of development of Royal Navy's ships from the 1850s to the Falklands War. In this volume the author covers the period in which he himself worked as a Naval...
Routledge, 2002. — 264 p. This volume deals with the first 15 months of the Mediterranean Campaign including the preparations for war, the effect of the entry of Italy into the war in June, 1940, the tragic actions against the French Fleet, and the achievement of British command of the sea, which was the defining factor for all subsequent Mediterranean operations. It ends with...
Seaforth Publishing, 2019. — 255 p. ‘Fittest of the fit’ was the Royal Navy’s boast about its personnel, a claim based on a recruitment process that was effectively self-selection. This book examines that basic assumption and many of the issues that followed from it. Beginning with the medical aspects of recruitment, it looks at how health and fitness was maintained in the...
Seafort Publishing, 2015. — 255 p. Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson did not enjoy robust good health. From his childhood he was prone to many of the ailments so common during the eighteenth century, and after he joined the Royal Navy he contracted fevers that further undermined his strength. Nevertheless, he saw more action than most officers, and was often wounded. His sickness...
Seaforth Publishing, 2023. — 200 p. The self-propelled or locomotive torpedo was probably the greatest game-changer in the history of naval warfare. For the first time the largest warship could be sunk by a weapon carried by the smallest, and most navies were quick to see the potential. Although the 19th-century Royal Navy had a reputation for technological conservatism, it was...
The History Press, 2019. — 288 p. This title covers the memories of the men and women who served at or around the Royal Navy's famous anchorage in the Orkney Islands in both world wars, first published in 1968. Ships sailed from Scapa Flow to the Battle of Jutland in the First World War and in Russian convoys in the Second. This book looks at the home of the British Grand Fleet...
Osprey Publishing, 2023. — 347 p. — (Osprey General Military) During the 70 years spanned by the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth II, the Royal Navy changed out of all recognition. Its status as a superpower navy with worldwide bases and operations has been eclipsed, but it remains a powerful force because of its potency if not its size. Maritime history author Paul Brown...
The History Press, 2016. — 192 p. For three centuries Portsmouth has been the leading base of the Royal Navy but the naval heritage of its port can be traced back to the Roman invasion of Britain. From the Roman walls of Portchester to the best-preserved Georgian dockyard in the world and the illustrious HMS Victory, Portsmouth is amongst the most important naval sites in the...
Lerner Company, 1982. — 58 p. Describes ships, men, and main strategies and naval campaigns of the British Royal Navy that defeated the French in the Napoleonic Wars.
Naval Institute Press, 2021. — 392 p. Genesis of the Grand Fleet: The Admiralty, Germany, and the Home Fleet, 1896–1914 tells the story of the prewar predecessor to the Royal Navy’s war-winning Grand Fleet: the Home Fleet. Established in early 1907 by First Sea Lord Sir John Fisher, the Home Fleet combined an active core of powerful armored warships with a unification of the...
Leo Cooper, 1999. — 308 p. As Britain came terrifyingly close to running out of supplies during the Second World War, a group of retired senior naval officers returned to the sea in the role of convoy commanders, and thereby turned the tide. This book is helpful in throwing light on the problems of the convoy commodores both in the Arctic and Atlantic as well as off the East...
Naval Institute Press, 2009. — 108 p. — ISBN: 978-1904459361. This revised and updated guide to the ships, aircraft, and weapons of the Royal Navy fleet is now expanded to include Royal Marine Craft and Border Agency vessels.
Maritime Books, 2006. — 100 p. The classic annual complete review of the warships and weapons of the Royal Navy, first started published in 1979. The complete guide to the warships, auxiliaries ships and naval aircraft of the modern British fleet. This revised and updated guide of the Royal Navy fleet is now expanded to include Royal Marine Craft and Border Agency vessels. The...
Maritime Books, 2015. — 124 p. The classic annual complete review of the warships and weapons of the Royal Navy, first started published in 1979. The complete guide to the warships, auxiliaries ships and naval aircraft of the modern British fleet. This revised and updated guide of the Royal Navy fleet is now expanded to include Royal Marine Craft and Border Agency vessels. The...
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Seafort Publishing, 2022. — 272 p. One of the most significant warship designers of the twentieth century, Sir Stanley Goodall rose through the ranks of the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors to become its head in 1936. The Corps was responsible for every aspect of the design and construction of British warships, and its head, the Director of Naval Construction, was the...
Seafort Publishing, 2022. — 272 p. One of the most significant warship designers of the twentieth century, Sir Stanley Goodall rose through the ranks of the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors to become its head in 1936. The Corps was responsible for every aspect of the design and construction of British warships, and its head, the Director of Naval Construction, was the...
New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005. — 201 p. Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson was a colourful and complex character, whose supremely successful naval career quickly attained legendary status. By 1803 he was Britain's paramount hero and already maimed with the loss of an arm and blind in one eye. He returned to war when called back in May and spent a further two years at sea before...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 312 р. The British Royal Navy of the French Wars (1793–1815) is an enduring national symbol, but we often overlook the tens of thousands of foreign seamen who contributed to its operations. Foreign Jack Tars presents the first in-depth study of their employment in the Navy during this crucial period. Based on sources from across Britain,...
Penguin Books, 2022. — 615 p. — ISBN13 9781761042003. — ISBN10 1761042009. When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, the British asked Australia for help. With some misgivings, the Australian government sent five destroyers to beef up the British Royal Navy in the Mediterranean. HMAS Vendetta, Vampire, Voyager, Stuart and Waterhen were old ships, small with...
De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021. — 225 p. The period between the mid-1880s and the First World War was the high point of the navalist movement - but the idea of 'navalism' took many forms, and meant different problems and different solutions to various groups within British society and the British government. New Crusade examines one form of the British navalist movement: directed...
Charles River Editors, 2018. — 65 p. Before Trafalgar, Admiral Horatio Nelson had already earned enduring fame for the British victory at the Battle of the Nile. In 1798, he was given command of a small squadron and sent ahead to Gibraltar, and eventually given instructions to hunt down and destroy Napoleon’s fleet. An initial review of France’s naval forces had led Napoleon to...
Seafort Publishing, 2014. — 320 p. For all the romantic mythology surrounding the court of Queen Elizabeth I, the financial underpinning of the reign of 'Gloriana' was decidedly sordid. Elizabeth's policy of seizing foreign assets made her popular at home but drew her into a partnership with pirates who preyed on the state's foes and friends alike, being rewarded or punished...
Seaforth Publishing, 2014. — 240 p. This new paperback edition brings the history of Henry VIII's famous warship right up to date with new chapters on the stunning presentation of the hull and the 19,000 salvaged artefacts in the new museum in Portsmouth. Mary Rose has, along with HMS Victory, become an instantly recognisable symbol of Britain's maritime past, while the...
Seaforth Publishing, 2009. — 224 p. In the sixteenth century England turned from being an insignifcant part of an offshore island into a nation respected and feared in Europe. This was not achieved through empire building, conquest, large armies, treaties, marriage alliances, trade or any of the other traditional means of exercising power. Indeed England was successful in few of...
Pen and Sword Books, 2014. — 224 p. What kind of Royal Navy does Britain need now? The 21st century promises to be one of huge uncertainties and challenges for the senior service. Does Britain have the right naval strategy to cope with emerging threats (does it have a naval strategy at all, and should it?) and, if so, does the Navy have the right ships and enough of them to...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2009. — 189 p. The story of HMS Invincible, a ship whose eventful life story, it is argued, embodies that of the Royal Navy itself during the second half of the 20th century and into the 21st. From her conception and design, through her various military deployments (including the Falklands) and her evolving role and technical adaptation to meet changing...
Naval Institute Press, 2021. — 200 р. The Truth About the Mutiny on HMAV Bounty – and the Fate of Fletcher Christian brings this famed South Pacific saga into the 21st century. By combining unprecedented research into Fletcher Christian and his fate with deep knowledge of Bounty’s Polynesian women, Glynn Christian presents a fresh and comprehensive telling of a powerful...
Hodder and Stoughton, 2010. — 224 p. Tars is a gripping firsthand account of life in the Royal Navy during the Seven Years War, from which Britain emerged as the world's major power. Through the lives of the main protagonists - a small band of sailors from across the ranks - Trafalgar author Tim Clayton paints a vivid picture of the navy and the era at its bloodiest and most...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 224 p. During the 19th Century the Royal Navy played a key role defending the expanding British Empire. As sail gave way to steam power, there was a pressing requirement for coaling stations and dock facilities across the world’s oceans. These strategic bases needed fixed defenses. The author describes in detail, with the aid of historic...
London, 1897. — 698 p. Фундаментальный классический труд известного английского историка (в 5 томах) освещает всю историю создания, развития и боевого пути военно-морского флота Великобритании вплоть до конца 19-го века. В первом томе - рассказывается об известных историку событиях, связанных с английскими военными моряками, от эпохи завоевания Британии римскими легионами Цезаря...
Ashgate Publishing, 2013. — 349 p. Today, the First World War is remembered chiefly for the carnage of the Western Front, but at the time the Royal Navy's blockade of Germany was a more frequent source of debate. For, even at a time of war, there were influential voices in Britain who baulked at a concept of economic warfare that hindered the free passage of goods on the high...
London: Institute of Historical Research, 2008. — 383 p. While naval warfare is one of the most popular subjects of research in The National Archives, readers are frequently frustrated in their search for information, and a high proportion of the relevant records are seldom consulted. This invaluable guide will help researchers both to understand TNA’s naval records and to locate...
Airlife Publishing Ltd, 1993. — 204 p. — ISBN: 1853103284. A guide to all minelayers & minesweepers treated chronologically by class with launch date, builder & specification. Includes requisitioned vessels. 5 appendices (missing: appendices 3-5).
Seaforth Publishing, 2021. — 520 p. This is the fifth fully revised edition of a book first published in 1970. This longevity is testimony to its enduring value as a reference work indeed, Colledge is still the first stop for anyone wanting more information on any British warship from the fifteenth century to the present day when only the name is known. Each entry gives concise...
Naval Institute Press, 1999. — 250 p. The Captain-class frigates included seventy-eight sturdy destroyer escorts built in the United States and leased to Great Britain in 1943. This engaging narrative of their operations was written by a crewmember who describes the close teamwork and comradeship that existed within the Captains escort groups as they faced the lethal submarine...
Manchester University Press, 2019. — 264 p. A New Naval History brings together the most significant and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary naval history. The last few decades have witnessed a transformation in how this field is researched and understood and this volume captures the state of a field that continues to develop apace. It examines – through the prism of...
Arcadia Publishing, 2014. — 146 p. On the morning of June 13, 1814, the British warship HMS Nimrod" attacked the town of Wareham, Massachusetts. As a center for shipbuilding and iron, Wareham was a perfect target for the British fleet. When the lead barge deceptively appeared with a white flag at its bow, Wareham never suspected anything but a truce and was ill prepared for the...
University of New South Wales Press, 2010. — 314 p. — ISBN13 9781742231181. — ISBN10 1742231187. Launched in January 1944, the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Tribal Class destroyer HMAS Bataan entered service too late to see action in World War II. However, she went on to play a vital role in the Korean War, the conflict between the Soviet-backed forces of North Korea and China...
Clink Street Publishing, 2015. — 224 p. On March 1, 1940, Adolf Hitler ordered the invasion of Norway. Having swept across Europe at a terrifying pace, the Nazi assault on Scandinavia was designed to secure the valuable source of iron ore being delivered by rail from Sweden to the Norwegian port of Narvik. To complete the task, Hitler sent ten large, modern destroyers, with 220...
Navy Records Society Publications, 1905. — 397 p. The views put forward by Corbett in this collection have now been partly discredited, but the collection itself remains of fundamental importance for the study of British naval tactics. It includes both Fighting Naval Instructions in the strict sense, and various orders and memoranda explanatory of them.
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2016. — 224 p. The present work is designed as a sequel to ‘Drake and the Tudor Navy,’ to which it practically forms a third and concluding volume, carrying the reader through the period of hostilities with Spain which extended from the death of Drake in 1596 to the conclusion of the war at James I.’s accession. It is a period which, if we except the...
Wagram Press, 2012. — 534 p. The military side of the campaign of 1805 has been left in even greater obscurity than the naval. In the course of the year, besides the troops in the East and West Indies, we had something like 50,000 men engaged in active oversea operations. Only a fraction of these touched Nelson, and where they did their deflecting influence on his strategy has...
Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2013. — 355 p. This is the story of the Bellerophon, a ship of the line known to her crew as the Billy Ruffian. Under fourteen captains, she played a conspicuous part in three of the most famous of all sea battles: the battle of the Glorious First of June (1794), the opening action against Revolutionary France; the battle of the Nile (1798), which halted...
Bloomsbury, 2007. — 448 p. Patrick O' Brian, C.S. Forester and Captain Marryat all based their literary heroes on Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, but Cochrane's exploits were far more daring and exciting than those of his fictional counterparts. He was a man of action, whose bold and impulsive nature meant he was often his own worst enemy. Writing with gripping narrative skill and...
Random House, 2011. — 320 p. From renowned naval and pirate historian David Cordingly, author of Under the Black Flag and film consultant for the original Pirates of the Caribbean, comes the thrilling story of Captain Woodes Rogers, the avenging nemesis of the worst cutthroats ever to terrorize the high seas. Once a marauding privateer himself, Woodes Rogers went from laying...
London: Macmillan & Co, 1918. — 202 p. Officers and Men; The Fighting Uses of the Ships; A Maritime Nation; The Practice of Sea Mastery; The Civil Work of the Navy; Types of Naval Officers; and, the Navy in the Great War.
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2017. — 192 p. This book tells the exploits of one of the experienced naval commodores who responsibility is to organise the order and safe passage of our convoys. This story is really about what lies behind the convoy system and the trials that the 'man in charge' has to contend with from stroppy Merchant Navy Masters to difficult warships from...
Maritime Books, 1994. — 100 p. The classic annual complete review of the warships and weapons of the Royal Navy, first started published in 1979. The complete guide to the warships, auxiliaries ships and naval aircraft of the modern British fleet. This revised and updated guide of the Royal Navy fleet is now expanded to include Royal Marine Craft and Border Agency vessels. The...
Maritime Books, 2000. — 100 p. The classic annual complete review of the warships and weapons of the Royal Navy, first started published in 1979. The complete guide to the warships, auxiliaries ships and naval aircraft of the modern British fleet. This revised and updated guide of the Royal Navy fleet is now expanded to include Royal Marine Craft and Border Agency vessels. The...
Heritage House, 2012. — 152 p. In late 1942, Britain was desperate to win the ongoing Battle of the Atlantic. German U-boats had sunk hundreds of Allied ships containing millions of tons of cargo that was needed to continue the war effort. Prime Minister Churchill had to find a solution to the carnage or the Nazis would be victorious. With the support of Churchill and Lord...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2020. — 267 p. Roger Keyes was the archetype of 19th to 20th century Royal Navy officers. A superb seaman, inspiring leader and fearless fighter he immediately caught the eye of senior figures in the naval establishment as well as the up and coming politician, Winston Churchill. The relationship between these two brave men survived disappointment,...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2013. — 232 p. Monitor warships mounted the biggest guns ever deployed by the Royal Navy, and played an undeniably important part in Allied efforts during World War One and Two. They were built as cheap "disposable" ships made out of redundant bits and pieces which the Admiralty happened to have available which could bring heavy artillery to bear on enemy...
Pen and Sword, 2011. — 178 p. It is not widely remembered that mines were by far the most effective weapon deployed against the British Royal Navy in WW1, costing them 5 battleships, 3 cruisers, 22 destroyers, 4 submarines and a host of other vessels. They were in the main combated by a civilian force using fishing boats and paddle steamers recruited from holiday resorts. This...
US Naval Institute Press, 2015. — 240 p. The Battle for Britain is a provocative reinterpretation of both British air and naval power from 1909 to 1940. Anthony Cumming challenges the view that the Battle of Britain was a decisive victory won solely by the Royal Air Force through independent airpower operations. By re-evaluating the early stage of the Mediterranean conflict and...
Naval Institute Press, 2010. — 207 p. This persuasive study attacks the key myths surrounding the Battle of Britain to revise the relative status of the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force fighter pilots, Anthony Cumming challenges the effectiveness of the air force an argues that the Royal Navy deserves much greater prominence in winning the battle. To make his case, Cumming...
Routledge, 2006. — 474 p. Following America's entry into World War Two, there was a necessity for the Royal Navy to strengthen co-operation with the United States Navy. Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham's brief term as head of the British Admiralty Delegation in Washington was to endear him to the Americans so much so that they proposed him as Allied Naval Commander of the...
Yale University Press, 2023. — 352 p. A major new history of the Royal Navy during the tumultuous age of revolution. The French Revolutionary Wars catapulted Britain into a conflict against a new enemy: Republican France. Britain relied on the Royal Navy to protect its shores and empire, but as radical ideas about rights and liberty spread across the globe, it could not prevent...
Pen & Sword Books, 2006. — 230 p. This biography of Sir John Jervis (1735-1823), who became Admiral Lord Vincent, makes compelling reading. It throws an oblique light on Nelson s personality. St Vincent, who was born twenty-three years before Nelson, and survived for eighteen years after Trafalgar, fundamentally influenced the younger man s career despite the two men being...
Seaforth Publishing, 2017. — 288 p. It has always been widely accepted that the Stuart kings, Charles II and James II, had an interest in the navy and more generally in the sea. Their enthusiastic delight in sailing, for instance, is often cited as marking the establishment of yachting in England. The major naval developments in their reigns on the other hand developments that...
Routledge, 2016. — 304 p. 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...
The History Press, 2014. — 152 p. This is a seafarer's book that draws from the accounts of hundreds of sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century ocean voyages to convey the realities of everyday life aboard the galleons sailing between England and the West Indies and beyond. From jacktar to captain, what was life like aboard an Elizabethan ship? How did the men survive...
Cambridge University Press, 1994. — 460 p. Captain Bligh and the voyage of the Bounty are the starting point of this new study of the famous mutiny in history, literature and film. By juxtaposing an account of the mutiny with an analysis of its evolving place in history and culture, Mr. Bligh's Bad Language offers a new interpretation of the mutiny in the context of its...
Pen and Sword Books, 2008. — 224 p. A highly decorated Royal Navy officer recounts his experiences at the command of a motor torpedo boat in the North Sea during WWII. In 1942-1943, Captain Peter Dickens commanded the 21st MTB Flotilla, mainly in the North Sea and the English Channel. In Night Action, he vividly recounts his experiences performing daring missions amid storms of...
Routledge, 2007. — 271 p. This volume provides the first comprehensive history of education and training for officers of the Royal Navy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It covers the development of educational provision, from the first 1702 Order in Council appointing schoolmasters to serve in operational warships, to the laying of the foundation stone of the present...
Routledge, 2016. — 324 p. Opened in 1873, in buildings constructed by Charles II to house retired sailors, the Royal Naval College was founded with the aim of providing officers with 'the highest possible scientific instruction in all branches of study bearing upon their profession'. For more than 125 years it taught officers ranging in rank from Sub Lieutenants to Vice...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2009. — 208 p. Illustrated with 200 official admiralty photographs, many of them previously unpublished, this book traces the development of Royal Naval ship design in a period of immense change. Opening with the Crimean War, this period saw the gradual transition from sail to steam and screw propulsion; from wood to steel construction; from fixed...
Pen & Sword Maritime, 2009. — 385 p. Illustrated with 200 official admiralty photographs, many of them previously unpublished, this book traces the development of Royal Naval ship design in a period of immense change. Opening with the Crimean War, this period saw the gradual transition from sail to steam and screw propulsion; from wood to steel construction; from fixed...
London, Chapman and Hall, 1852. - 372 p. This is the biography of the renowned admiral and general, Robert Blake (1599-1657), and, in it, the naval history of England during the 17th century - one of its most dramatic and turbulent periods. Having been painstakingly researched from official British-state and Blake-family papers and written by one of England's foremost writers of...
Pen & Sword Maritime, 2011. — 256 p. Too often historical writing on the Russian War of 1854-1856 focuses narrowly on the land campaign fought in the Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea. The wider war waged at sea by the British and French navies against the Russians is ignored. The allied navies aimed to strike at Russian interests anywhere in the world where naval force could be...
Seaforth Publishing, 2018. — 317 p. Bayly's Waris the story of the Royal Navy's Coast of Ireland Command (later named Western Approaches Command) during World War I. After the sinking of the Lusitania May 1915 and the introduction of unrestricted submarine warfare by the Germans, Britain found herself engaged in a fight for survival as U-boats targeted all incoming...
Casemate Publishers, 2019. — 304 p. A history and analysis of the battle for the North Sea—and the crucial supplies needed by both Britain and Germany to fight the war. During World War I, the Scandinavian countries played a dangerous and sometimes questionable game; they proclaimed their neutrality but at the same time pit the two warring sides against one another to protect...
Seaforth Publishing, 2022. — 338 p. The Harwich Force has made its name and will not be forgotten during the future annals of history’; so said Rear Admiral Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt on Armistice Day 1918. But that fame has not endured. Yet for the whole duration of the First World War, the Harwich Striking Force was the front line of the Royal Navy, a force of cruisers and...
Seaforth Publishing, 2021. — 208 p. John Lambert was a renowned naval draughtsman, whose plans were highly valued for their accuracy and detail by modelmakers and enthusiasts. By the time of his death in 2016 he had produced over 850 sheets of drawings, many of which have never been published. These were acquired by Seaforth and this title is the fourth of a planned series of...
Seafort Publishing, 2021. — 288 p. The Power and the Glory tells the story of royal fleet reviews from the fifteenth century to the 2005 International Fleet Review, commemorating the 200th anniversary of Trafalgar, which was the final exhibition of that pomp and ceremony that had been an essential if irregular expression of naval strength for more than 500 years. Whether to...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. — 268 p. The six Australian colonies united on 1st January 1901 to become the Commonwealth of Australia. One of the reasons given for this federation was that the Commonwealth could provide a common defence. William Rooke Creswell argued that, as an island continent, Australia could not defend itself without a navy. He saw no point in having a...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2018. — 248 p. The first British casualties of the Second World War were not members of either the Royal Navy, the Army or the Royal Air Force but British merchant seamen on the liner Athenia, torpedoed by U-30 on 3 September 1939. For the duration of the War, Britain's merchant fleet performed a vital role, carrying the essential supplies that kept the...
Pen and Sword, 2008. — 224 p. On 16 March 1807, the British Parliament passed The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. In the following year the Royal Navy's African Squadron was formed, its mission to stop and search ships at sea suspected of carrying slaves from Africa to the Americas and the Middle East. With typical thoroughness, the Royal Navy went further, and took the fight...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2022. — 224 p. The British Merchant Navy dominated the world trade routes in the years leading up to the Second World War. The star players of the fleet were the cargo liners, faster and larger than the tramps and offering limited passenger accommodation. On the outbreak of war these cargo liners became crucial to the nation’s survival using their speed...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2010. — 160 p. The Kaiser's determination to starve Britain into surrender and the development of his Navy and the U-boats in particular meant that Britain's merchant navy was in the front line throughout the Great War.This book charts the progress of the war at sea which began with the sinking of the oil tanker San Wilfrido off Cuxhaven only eight hours...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2016. — 255 p. The Grey Diplomatists of the title were the sea grey battleships, cruisers and destroyers of the Royal Navy, who sailed around the globe to keep the Pax Britannica in the fraught years between the First and Second World Wars. Although Europe had exhausted itself after the hecatomb of World War I there were still many hotspots of...
2nd ed. — London, Baldwin and Cradock, 1828. — 355 p. illus., maps (part fold.) charts. Содержание. Часть 1. 1690.Сражение у Бичи-Гед. 1704.Нападение на Гибралтар. 1704.Сражение у Малаги. 1718.Сражение Мессинское. 1739.Действия Адмирала Вернона. 1744.Сражение Адмирала Мэтьюса. 1747.Сражение Энсона и де ла Жонкьера. 1747.Сражение Гука и л'Этандьера. 1748.Сражение Нульса и Реджио....
Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 304 p. A magnificent illustrated history of HMS Tyger, a fourth-rate ship of the Navy of Charles II. Inspired by the recent discovery of mathematically calculated digital plans for a fourth-rate ship, written by the Deptford master shipwright, John Shish, The Warship Tyger is an illustrated history of the HMS Tyger, one of the smaller warships of the...
Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 304 p. A magnificent illustrated history of HMS Tyger, a fourth-rate ship of the Navy of Charles II. Inspired by the recent discovery of mathematically calculated digital plans for a fourth-rate ship, written by the Deptford master shipwright, John Shish, The Warship Tyger is an illustrated history of the HMS Tyger, one of the smaller warships of the...
Routledge, 2015. — 202 p. In September 1931 the Royal Navy experienced its biggest modern mutiny. The largest warships in the Atlantic Fleet were gathering in Cromarty Firth, for their autumn exercises. Meanwhile Ramsay MacDonald’s newly formed national Government announced its emergency budget, introducing means tests, cutting uneployment benefit and reducing public sector...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2010. — 216 p. His Majesty’s destroyers had a long and costly war. Some eight thousand destroyer men did not survive. At the height of the war the Royal navy was commissioning four new vessels a month, which was only sufficient to replace those which had been sunk or severely damaged. This outstanding book contains the details of the majority of the...
I.B. Tauris, 2017. — 256 p. World War I is one of the iconic conflicts of the modern era. For many years the war at sea has been largely overlooked; yet, at the outbreak of that war, the British Government had expected and intended its military contribution to be largely naval. This was a war of ideologies fought by and for empires. Britain was not defending simply an island;...
I.B.Tauris, 2014. — 256 p. For many years the naval warfare of World War I has been largely overlooked; yet, at the outbreak of that war, the British Government had expected and intended its military contribution to the conflict to be largely naval. Britain was not simply defending an island; it was defending a far flung empire. Without the navy such an undertaking would have...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 294 p. The Officers of the Royal Navy Before 1918 The Naval Officer and Interwar Society Becoming a Naval Officer: Entry, Education and Training Personnel Management The Officers of the Royal Navy in the 1920s Malign Neglect? The Collapse of Executive Officers’ Morale The Officers’ Nadir and the Inflection The Ascension: Improving Morale The...
The MIT Press, 2020. — 400 p. How the introduction of steam, iron, and steel required new rules and new ways of thinking for the design and building of ships. In the 1800s, shipbuilding moved from sail and wood to steam, iron, and steel. The competitive pressure to achieve more predictable ocean transportation drove the industrialization of shipbuilding, as shipowners demanded...
Routledge, 2004. — 285 p. Between 1919 and 1931, in the absence of any real European threat, the Royal Navy's strategical and tactical planning was focused on Japan, only shifting towards first Italy and then Germany from 1933, as the political situation in Europe deteriorated. The purpose of this book is to consider the background to this, the challenges to the Royal Navy's...
London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2004. — 214 p. This book suggests that institutional culture can account for a great deal of the activities and rationale of the Royal Navy. War highlights the role of culture in military organizations and as such acts as a spotlight by which this phenomenon can be assessed separately and then in comparison in order to demonstrate the influence of...
Naval Institute Press, 2010. — 160 р. — ISBN: 978-1591142645. In the sailing era, the warships called First Rates were the largest, most powerful, and most costly ships to construct, maintain, and operate. Built to the highest standards, they were lavishly decorated and given carefully considered names that reflected the pride and prestige of their country. They were the very...
Constable, 2019. — 672 p. The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's great epics - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later,...
New York: Bantam Books, 1963. — 118 p.
In 1941, Hitler's deadly Bismarck, the fastest battleship afloat, broke out into the Atlantic. Its mission: to cut the lifeline of British shipping and win the war with one mighty blow. How the Royal Navy tried to meet this threat and its desperate attempt to bring the giant Bismarck to bay is the story C. S. Forester tells with mounting...
Pen and Sword Books, 2011. — 224 p. This concise guide to naval history and naval records is essential reading and reference for anyone researching the fascinating story of Britains navy and the men and women who served in it. Whether you are interested in the career of an individual seaman, finding out about a medal winner or just want to know more about a particular ship,...
Allen & Unwin, 2004. — 350 p. In 1901 Australia's fledgling Federal Government assumed the responsibility for the new nation's defence. Their first task was to take the aged and obsolete remnants of the colonies' navies and create a national navy to defend our island's coastal waters and overseas trade routes. For the first 40 years the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) was designed to...
Frank Cass, 2003. — 203 p. — (Naval Policy and History). Britain's Anti-Submarine Capability, 1919-1939 is the first unified study of the development of Britain's anti-submarine capability between the armistice in 1919 and the onset of the second world German submarine attack on Britain's maritime trade in 1939. Well researched and yet accessibly written, this book challenges...
Endeavour Press, 2012. — 295 p. Lord Charles Beresford was the most eccentric, rebellious admiral the British Navy had ever seen. Member of Parliament, celebrated public speaker and the most reprimanded admiral in naval history, Lord Beresford was a true character. Insubordinate and courageous, he marched to the beat of his own drum. Travelling across the globe, Beresford saw...
Endeavour Media, 2019. — 64 p. Until the end of the First World War, Britain's wealth and power depended crucially on her command of the sea through naval power. No country could challenge Britain's power unless it first deprived her of her capacity to rule the waves. Philip II of Spain, Napoleon and Kaiser Wilhelm all took up this challenge. On each occasion Britain found...
Endeavour Press, 2015. — 455 p. No man ever made his mark on the Navy the way that Lord Fisher did. He was unquestionably the greatest reforming admiral of all time and many of his changes were long-lasting. Some of his critics accused him of ill-thought out reforms carried out on the spur of the moment. Nothing could be further from the truth. Battle fleets of long-range and...
Endeavour Press, 2015. — 457 p. No man ever made his mark on the Navy the way that Lord Fisher did. He was unquestionably the greatest reforming admiral of all time and many of his changes were long-lasting. Some of his critics accused him of ill-thought out reforms carried out on the spur of the moment. Nothing could be further from the truth. Battle fleets of long-range and...
Seafort Publishing, 2020. — 239 p. This volume looks at the Coastal Forces, examining the boats themselves, a complex subject with a large number of visually similar boats performing different roles, and with variants of different lengths, and the weapons they carried, including the varied types of guns in use and the anti-submarine weapons and mines they carried. The plans are...
Naval Institute Press, 2019. — 320 p. John Lambert was a renowned naval draughtsman whose plans were highly valued for their accuracy and detail by model makers and enthusiasts. By the time of his death in 2016 he had produced over 850 sheets of drawings many of which have never been published. British Naval Weapons of World War Two covers weapons carried by British destroyers...
Seaforth Publishing, 2009. — 320 p. In the late nineteenth century the advent of the modern torpedo woke the Royal Navy to a potent threat to its domination, not seriously challenged since Trafalgar. For the first time a relatively cheap weapon had the potential to sink the largest, and costliest exponents of sea power. Not surprisingly, Britain's traditional rivals invested...
Seaforth Publishing, 2012. — 400 p. Gradually evolving from sailing frigates, the first modern cruiser is not easy to define, but this book starts with the earliest steam paddle warships, covers the evolution of screw-driven frigates, corvettes and sloops, and then the succeeding iron, composite and steel-hulled classes down to the last armoured cruisers.
Seaforth Publishing, 2010. — 431 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84832-078-9. With the world's largest merchant fleet and extensive overseas territories during most of the twentieth century, the Royal Navy depended on the cruiser to defend Britain's trade routes and police the empire. In this handsomely illustrated book, the noted ship historian Norman Friedman provides insights into the...
Chatham Publishing, 2006. — 351 p. Британские эсминцы и фрегаты Второй мировой войны и после нее. В книге описаны эсминцы постройки 1940-х годов, начиная с больших эсминцев типа «Трайбл» с усиленным артиллерийским вооружением. За ними последовали многочисленные корабли трехбашенного типа серий J,K,L,M,N. Традиционно в каждой литерной серии все корабли несли имена , начинающиеся...
The History Press, 2015. — 224 p. Henry V's fleet played a major – if often unrecognised – part in enabling the king to come within reach of final victory in the Hundred Years War against France. Henry's navy was one of the most successful fleets deployed by England before the time of Elizabeth I. The royal fleet was transformed in Henry's short reign from a few dilapidated...
Routledge, 2014. — 320 p. This book examines British naval diplomacy from the end of the Crimean War to the American Civil War, showing how the mid-Victorian Royal Navy suffered serious challenges during the period. Many recent works have attempted to depict the mid-Victorian Royal Navy as all-powerful, innovative, and even self-assured. In contrast, this work argues that it...
Pen and Sword Books, 2009. — 176 p. Our vision of aviation in the First World War is dominated by images of gallant fighter pilots duelling with each other high over the Western Front. But it was the threat of the Zeppelin which spurred the British government into creating the Royal Flying Corps, and it was this ‘menace’, which no aircraft could match in the air at the...
Routledge, 2014. — 272 p. This is the Naval Staff History of "Operation Dynamo", originally published internally in 1949. British ships evacuated nearly 100,000 men of the BEF from the beaches, and over 200,000 from harbours. Other nations' vessels carried more than 30,000. The book reads a bit like a ship's log, very dispassionate, but the personal correspondences indicate the...
Australian War Memorial, 1968. — 812 p. This volume continues the story, and chronicles the activities of ships and men of the Royal Australian Navy (during 1942-1945) alongside those of their British and American Allies, once again in near and distant seas. These activities are seen against the background of the political and military policies of which the RAN was one of the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2018. — 255 p. The Danish capital of Copenhagen was the site of two major battles during the Napoleonic Wars, but the significance of the fighting there, and the key role the country played in the conflict in northern Europe, has rarely been examined in detail. In this absorbing and original study Gareth Glover focuses on these two principal events,...
Frontline Books, 2010. — 293 p. It was headline news on 8 April 1942: 'One of the Navy's most famous destroyers, a ship which survived bombs, torpedoes and full scale battles, has been wrecked'. That destroyer was HMS Havock, described in another newspaper as 'Britain's No 2 Destroyer of this war - second only in fame and glory to the Cossack.' Havock had earned her reputation...
Tiverton, Devon: Halsgrove, 1998. — 159 p. Plymouth's dockyard at Devonport has for centuries been one of England's greatest naval ports. From the deep Tamar anchorages have sailed some of the finest and most famous ships of the Royal Navy. Over 200 photographs of these ships illustrate Plymouth Warships 1900-1950, all of them drawn from the Goodman Collection, a remarkable...
Maritime Books, 2007. — 544 p. The Castle Class were 2nd generation British WWII anti-submarine corvettes, coming after the Flower Class. Like the Flowers they were 'economy class' single-screw ships. They came into service from 1944 and 1945. While they faced considerable dangers, especially in the Arctic, the U-Boat threat had been largely contained by this time. The class...
Osprey Publishing, 2015. — 160 p. This new addition to the best-selling Conway pocket-book range features Admiral Nelson's fully preserved flagship HMS Victory, the most tangible symbol of the Royal Navy's greatest battle off Cape Trafalgar on October 21st 1805. In the HMS Victory Pocket Manual, Peter Goodwin adopts a fresh approach to explain the workings of the only surviving...
Conway Maritime Press, 2004. — 112 p. Much has been written about HMS Victory, but it is often simplistic and romanticised or clearly aimed at the technical requirements of the naval historian. In Nelson’s Victory, Peter Goodwin adopts a fresh and accessible approach to explain the workings of our only surviving line-of-battle ship from the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic...
Naval Institute Press, 1986. — 275 p. One of the three most important books detailing construction of historic British warships, Mr. Goodwin's volume comprehensively illustrates construction for individuals with historical or modeling interests. Mr. Goodwin's engineering background provides clear, concise explanations and illustrations to obscure, easily misunderstood nautical...
Naval Institute Press, 1997. — 736 p. When hundreds of warships belonging to the two most powerful fleets in the world clashed off the coast of Denmark in 1916, the encounter had the potential to reshape the political map forever. However, there were devastating failures of communication and command and, while the Battle of Jutland met Britain's strategic need for continued...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1988. — 320 p. Britain's armament policy between wars was unique and independent from other military powers. Its naval programs were created and protected by an admiralty that enjoyed an autonomy unlike the other services. This meant that the navy was both more prepared in some areas and woefully unprepared in others when WWII arrived.
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2005. — 256 p. Admiral John Child Purvis was a contemporary naval officer of Nelson, who never disobeyed an order and did his job well. His ability as a fighting commander was proved in a bloody duel between his sloop-of-war and a French corvette during the War of American Independence. As a battleship Captain, he was the first British officer to...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 336 p. During the year between July 1588, when the Spanish Armada set sail from Spain and July 1589, when the survivors of the English counterpart of this fleet, the little-known English Armada, reached port in England, two of history's worst naval catastrophes took place. A great deal of attention has been dedicated to the former and precious little...
Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2006. — 247 p. In his early teens Horatio Nelson was commanding boats with up to 20 oarsmen. From the age of 18 he took charge of ships taken as prizes. At 21 he was a captain, responsible for hundreds of men. By Trafalgar he was responsible for the fate of 40 ships and tens of thousands of men. A manager as well as an inspiring leader, Nelson was...
Seaforth Publishing, 2010. — 365 p. This is the story of the remarkable, intersecting careers of the two greatest writers on British naval history in the twentieth century the American professor Arthur Marder, son of immigrant Russian Jews, and Captain Stephen Roskill, who knew the Royal Navy from the inside. Between them, these contrasting characters were to peel back the lid...
Seaforth Publishing, 2016. — 336 p. The influence of the Royal Navy on the development of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest was both effective and extensive. Yet all too frequently, its impact has been ignored by historians, who instead focus on the influence of explorers, fur traders, settlers, and railway builders. In this thoroughly revised and expanded edition of...
Seaforth Publishing, 2010. — 320 p. This is the story of the remarkable, intersecting careers of the two greatest writers on British naval history in the twentieth century the American professor Arthur Marder, son of immigrant Russian Jews, and Captain Stephen Roskill, who knew the Royal Navy from the inside. Between them, these contrasting characters were to peel back the lid...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 402 p. This book by world-expert Barry Gough examines the period of Pax Britannica , in the century before World War I. Following naval events of those 100 years, the book follows how the British Empire and the Royal Navy failed to maintain their global hegemony of sea power in the face of continental challenges.
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2022. — 264 p. Although many books have been written about naval actions during the Second World War – histories and memoirs in particular – few books have attempted to encompass the extraordinary variety of the experience of the war at sea. That is why James Goulty’s vivid survey is of such value. Sailors in the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy...
Routledge, 2021. — 874 p. The Tenth Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet had the task of patrolling the seas between Scotland and Greenland to intercept enemy ships trying to escape into the ocean and merchant ships who could be carrying goods destined for Germany. This was a task of great political sensitivity, since almost all the ships intercepted were neutrals, and requiring...
Routledge, 2019. — 398 p. This book presents a collection of contemporary documents throwing light on the campaigns by the Royal Navy, in association with the army, on cities of the Spanish Empire in South America, beginning with the (unauthorised) assault on Buenos Aires in 1806, by Sir Home Popham. One of Popham's aims was to open South America for British trade and also...
Boydell Press, 2012. — 602 p. This very substantial, comprehensive dictionary contains entries on all the battles fought at sea by British fleets and ships since Anglo-Saxon times. Major battles, such as Trafalgar or Jutland, minor actions, often convoy and frigate actions, troop landings, bombardments and single ship actions are all covered. Most accounts of British naval...
Boydell Press, 2022. — 468 p. Provides a comprehensive overview of the activities of the British navy in the Indian and Pacific Oceans from the earliest times to the present. This book outlines the early voyages of the English East India Company, its building of its own naval forces and its conflicts with Indian states. It examines the opening up of the Pacific Ocean, the wars...
Boydell Press, 2022. — 468 p. Provides a comprehensive overview of the activities of the British navy in the Indian and Pacific Oceans from the earliest times to the present. This book outlines the early voyages of the English East India Company, its building of its own naval forces and its conflicts with Indian states. It examines the opening up of the Pacific Ocean, the wars...
Boydell Press, 2022. — 331 p. Provides a comprehensive overview of the activities of the British navy in the Indian and Pacific Oceans from the earliest times to the present. This book outlines the early voyages of the English East India Company, its building of its own naval forces and its conflicts with Indian states. It examines the opening up of the Pacific Ocean, the wars...
Boydell Press, 2014. — 304 p. This book presents a comprehensive overview of the activities of the British navy in the Baltic Sea from the earliest times until the twentieth century. It traces developments from Anglo-Saxon times, through the medieval period when there were frequent disputes between English kings and the Hanseatic League, the seventeenth-century wars with the...
Boydell Press, 2021. — 279 p. This book charts the involvement of the British navy in the Caribbean from the earliest times to the present. It recounts the voyages of sixteenth century English adventurers such as John Hawkins and Francis Drake and their attacks on Spanish territories, outlines the capture of Jamaica during the time of Oliver Cromwell's rule and describes the...
Boydell Press, 2021. — 279 p. This book charts the involvement of the British navy in the Caribbean from the earliest times to the present. It recounts the voyages of sixteenth century English adventurers such as John Hawkins and Francis Drake and their attacks on Spanish territories, outlines the capture of Jamaica during the time of Oliver Cromwell's rule and describes the...
Boydell Press, 2017. — 324 p. A comprehensive overview of the activities of the British navy in the Mediterranean from the earliest times until the present. This book presents a comprehensive overview of the activities of the British navy in the Mediterranean Sea from the earliest times until the twentieth century. It traces developments from Anglo-Saxon times, through the...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2016. — 248 p. John D Grainger charts the careers of the thirteen vessels that have served the Royal Navy under the name HMS Shark. Despite the ferocious name, they have all been relatively small vessels including one brigantine, five sloops, one Sixth Rate, a gun vessel, four destroyers and a submarine. Collectively they therefore give a good...
Naval Institute Press, 1991. — 267 p. Hollywood's version of the Naval War in the Pacific has led many people to believe that it was an all-American affair and that the Royal Navy took no part in it. But, as Edwin Gray shows in Operation Pacific, Such a scenario is a travesty of the truth. In fact, the Royal Navy and its Commonwealth partners played a very significant role in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 297 p. This book examines how the expansion of a steam-powered Royal Navy from the second half of the nineteenth century had wider ramifications across the British Empire. In particular, it considers how steam propulsion made vessels utterly dependent on a particular resource – coal – and its distribution around the world. In doing so, it shows that the...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 208 p. Dispatches in this volume include those relating to the sinking of the German battleship Graf Spee in the Battle of the River Plate in 1939, the loss of the battleships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse in the Far East, the sinking of the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst in 1943, the attack on Tirpitz by midget submarines, the contribution by...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2014. — 224 p. Germany’s attempts to build a battleship fleet to match that of the United Kingdom, the dominant naval power on the 19th-century and an island country that depended on sea born trade for survival, is often listed as a major reason for the enmity between those two countries that led to the outbreak of war in 1914. Indeed, German leaders had...
Endeavour Press, 2016. — 246 p. At the dawn of the Twentieth Century Japan was free to pursue its own goals in the far East with little interference from the West. With animosity growing and tensions rising between Japan and America, the British realised the impact on their interests in the Far East could be dire. So she began building the naval base in Singapore, turning it...
Sapere Books, 2021. — 254 p. Vice Admiral Sir Peter Gretton’s book is a brilliant account of his career in the navy through World War Two: fighting in the Second Battle of the Narvik, guarding convoys in the Mediterranean and the North Atlantic, before being placed in charge of Escort Group B7, which he described as “the finest job in the Navy for a new commander”. It was in...
Naval Institute Press, 1974. — 182 p. As is well known by everyone with any knowledge of WW2, in the second quarter of 1943 the Battle of the Atlantic hung in the balance. German submarine wolfpack attacks were destroying merchant shipping at such a rate that the achievement of Allied war aims began to be in doubt. The more melodramatic commentators (including some very senior...
Sapere Books, 2021. — 182 p. As is well known by everyone with any knowledge of WW2, in the second quarter of 1943 the Battle of the Atlantic hung in the balance. German submarine wolfpack attacks were destroying merchant shipping at such a rate that the achievement of Allied war aims began to be in doubt. The more melodramatic commentators (including some very senior...
Boydell Press, 2012. — 278 p. It has been widely accepted that British naval war planning from the late nineteenth century to the First World War was amateur and driven by personal political agenda. But Shawn T. Grimes argues that this was far from the case. His extensive original research shows that, in fact, the Royal Navy had a definitive war strategy, which was well...
New Edition. — I.B. Tauris, 2016. — 898 p. Much is known about Britain's role in the Atlantic slave trade during the eighteenth century but few are aware of the sustained campaign against slaving conducted by the Royal Navy after the passing of the Slave Trade Abolition Act of 1807. Peter Grindal provides the definitive account of this little known yet important part of the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 300 p. This book fills an important gap in the literature on the history of the modern Royal Navy. Eric Grove provides the only up-to-date, single-authored short history of the service over the last two hundred years, synthesizing the new work and latest research on the subject which has radically transformed our understanding of the story of British...
Independently Publishers, 2021. — 95 p. The Type 42 or Sheffield-class destroyers were for three decades the air defense ships of the Royal Navy, participating in all the conflicts and deployments carried out by the United Kingdom during these thirty years. This volume describes: The origin of the Type 42. Characteristics. Propulsion. Weapons. Electronics. Modifications....
University of Ottawa Press, 2004. — 362 p. Ashore and Afloat tells the early history of the Halifax Naval Yard. From the building of the yard and its expansion, to the people involved in the enterprise, to the nuts and bolts of buying the masts and paying the bills, Julian Gwyn's history of the Halifax Naval Yard leaves no stone unturned. Dozens of illustrations and copious...
UBC Press, 2003. — 222 p. The first comprehensive study of naval operations involving North American squadrons in Nova Scotia waters, Frigates and Foremasts offers a masterful analysis of the motives behind the deployment of Royal Naval vessels between 1745 and 1815, and the navy's role on the Western Atlantic. Interweaving historical analysis with vivid descriptions of pivotal...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 1974. — 325 p. The financial impact of war in the eighteenth century upon the corps of naval officers has not been systematically studied. Nor have the opportunities of a naval career to exploit such sidelines as trade, money-lending, and land purchases in the colonies, where officers spent much of their time, been looked at carefully. The...
The History Press, 2014. — 224 p. In 1943, with the German Sixth Army annihilated at Stalingrad and Rommel's Afrika Korps in full retreat after defeat at El Alamein, Winston Churchill's War Cabinet met to discuss the opening of a new front. Its battles would be fought not on the beaches of Normandy or in the jungles of Burma but amidst the blizzards and glaciers of the...
Allan Press, 1982. — 128 p. An excellent look at all things World War Two RN Destroyers. Covers the origin of the vessels, an A-Z of the various types in RN use. The book is massively well illustrated and modellers especially will appreciate the detail. Several actions are covered in detail such as Narvik, HMS Glowworm etc. There is a useful list of the ship with fates at the...
Routledge, 2016. — 590 p. The Mediterranean Fleet entered the 1930s looking back to the lessons of Jutland and the First World War but also seeking to incorporate new technologies, notably air power. Unfortunately in the depression years of the early 1930s there was a lack of funds to remedy deficiencies. The problem became critical during the Abyssinian crisis of 1935. The...
Ashgate, 2011. — 648 p. Following the end of the First World War the Mediterranean Fleet found itself heavily involved in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Sea of Marmora, the Black Sea and to a lesser extent, the Adriatic. Naval commanders were faced with complex problems in a situation of neither war nor peace. The collapse of the Ottoman, Russian and Habsburg empires created a...
Ashgate Publishing, 2013. — 252 p. Exploring British naval policy during the first two governments of Harold Wilson (1964-1970), this book analyses how the Navy Department of the Ministry of Defence and the Navy's professional leadership dealt with six years of defence reviews, retrenchment and strategic re-orientation. This period witnessed a dramatic blow to the service's...
New York, D. Appleton, 1886. - 194 p. This work presents the one from the first of the biographies of General at Sea Robert Blake (1598-1657), who was an important naval commander of the Commonwealth of England and one of the most famous English admirals of the 17th century.
Adamant Media Corporation, 2004. — 525 p. David Hannay endeavours to give a popular, but clear and not inaccurate, account of the growth, and services, of the Royal Navy. The books is divided into two volumes. The first volume begins with King John and ends at the Revolution of 1688. The second volume will give the history of the great struggle with France and her dependent...
Adamant Media Corporation, 2004. — 575 p. David Hannay endeavours to give a popular, but clear and not inaccurate, account of the growth, and services, of the Royal Navy. The books is divided into two volumes. The first volume begins with King John and ends at the Revolution of 1688. The second volume will give the history of the great struggle with France and her dependent...
Albion Press, 2016. — 188 p. George Brydges Rodney was a British naval officer, most famous for his service during the American War of Independence. His dramatic escapades included fleeing to France, sneaking back to England during wartime, escaping shark-infested waters, and running for parliament. The life of Rodney was not without its thrills or its dangers. In this...
University of Westminster Press, 2017. — 212 p. The Naval Leader has taken centre stage in traditional naval histories. However, while the historical narrative has been fairly consistent the development of various navies has been accompanied by assumptions, challenges and competing visions of the social characteristics of naval leaders and of their function. Whilst leadership has...
Boydell Press, 2010. — 394 p. The British involvement in the War of 1739-1748 has been generally neglected. Standing between the great victories of Marlborough in the War of Spanish Succession (1701-1713) and the even greater victories of the Seven Years War (1756-1763), it has been dismissed as inconclusive and incompetently managed. For the first time this book brings...
London, Frank Cass Publishers, 2005. — 305 p. This new book explores innovation within the Royal Navy from the financial constraints of the 1930s to World War Two, the Cold War and the refocusing of the Royal Navy after 1990. Successful adaptation to new conditions has been critical to all navies at all times. To naval historians the significance and process of change is not new,...
Centurion Publishing, 2015. — 72 p. The naval engagement often referred to as the ‘Second Battle of Heligoland Bight’, fought on 17 November 1917, between elements of the British Grand Fleet and elements of the German High Seas Fleet, is often sidelined from history. While not being the major clash of fleets like the ‘Battle of Jutland’ the previous year, or a decisive victory for...
William Collins, 2021. — 494 p. In 1940, Hitler had two choices when it came to the Mediterranean region: stay out, or commit sufficient forces to expel the British from the Middle East. Against his generals’ advice, the Fuhrer committed a major strategic blunder. He ordered the Wehrmacht to seize Crete, allowing the longtime British bastion of Malta to remain in Allied hands....
Osprey Publishing, 1994. ― 66 p. ― (Ejercitos y Batallas 14). A pesar del gran número de célebres victorias obtenidas por el Ejército británico durante las guerras napoleónicas, no debería pasarse por alto el papel desempeñado por la Marina Real. Las «murallas de madera» formaban la primera y más importante línea de defensa del país, y se extendía a lo largo y ancho del mundo...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 320 p. Examining Britain's imperial outposts in 1920s East Asia, this book explores the changes and challenges affecting the Royal Navy's third largest fleet, the China Station, as its crews fought to hold back the changing tides of fortune. Bridging the gap between high level naval strategy and everyday imperial culture, Heaslip highlights the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2008. — 320 p. A companion volume to the same author's "The British Field Marshals 1736-1997", this book outlines the lives of the 115 officers who held the rank of Admiral of the Fleet in the Royal Navy from 1734, when it took its modern form, to 1995, when the last one was appointed. Each entry gives details of the dates of the birth and death of its...
Casemate Publishers, 2005. — 255 p. This is a biographical dictionary of the two flag officers and captains of 27 battleships, four frigates and two minor combatant vessels that were present under Nelson's command at the historic battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805. Each officer's family background and naval career will be covered and his and his ship's role in the Battle...
Boydell Press, 2022. — 297 p. This book examines the union of England and Scotland by weaving the navy into a political narrative of events between the regal union in 1603 and the parliamentary union in 1707. For most of the century the Scottish crown had no separate naval force which made the Stuart monarchs' navy, seen by them as a personal not a state force, unusual in being...
London: Leo Cooper, 1994. — 176 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-8505-2432-1. Light, swift, and daring, frigates were the cruisers of Nelson's navy, commanded by bold, courageous officers, ranging the oceans of the world alone or in packs, seeking the enemy — and usually finding him. Although much of the swashbuckling spirit of these courageous sea adventures has been captured in fiction,...
Pen and Sword, 2006. — 301 p. The history of weapons and warfare is usually written from the point of view of the battles fought and the tactics used. In naval warfare, in particular, the story of how these weapons were invented, designed and supplied is seldom told. Chris Henry, in this pioneering study, sets the record straight. He describes how, to counter the extraordinary...
Seaforth Publishing, 2020. — 155 p. In this book John Henshaw takes the reader through all the developmental stages of the V & W Class with a detailed history of the step-by-step lessons that were learned, not all of which were fortuitous. In one package the Royal Navy finally acquired a hull that possessed not just good sea-keeping capability but one that was able to carry...
Naval Institute Press, 2022. — 455 p. This important new reference work details all those ships and vessels of the Royal Navy, large and small, which were lost by accident or enemy action, during the twentieth century, from the end of the World War, to the last years of the century. In all, the fates of over 2,000 ships and small craft are covered, from aircraft carriers and...
Naval Institute Press, 2022. — 455 p. This important new reference work details all those ships and vessels of the Royal Navy, large and small, which were lost by accident or enemy action, during the twentieth century, from the end of the World War, to the last years of the century. In all, the fates of over 2,000 ships and small craft are covered, from aircraft carriers and...
Seaforth Publishing, 2021. — 192 p. The Trafalgar Chronicle is a prime source of information as well as the publication of choice for new research about the Georgian Navy, sometimes also loosely referred to as ‘Nelson’s Navy’, though its scope reaches out to include all the sailing navies of the period. The central theme of the 2020 issue is ‘portrayals of the Georgian Navy...
Seaforth Publishing, 2022. — 382 p. The Trafalgar Chronicle is the publication of choice for new research about the Georgian Navy, sometimes called ‘Nelson’s Navy’, though its scope includes all the sailing navies of the period from 1714 to 1837. The theme of the 2021 new issue is ‘Georgian Navy encounters with indigenous and enslaved populations’. The theme is particularly...
Pen and Sword Books, 1999. — 52 p. Contains all the details of the UK governments 1998 strategic naval defence review. This comprehensive pocket guide includes full and up-to-date details of all modern British military naval ships, forces, organisation and structure. Charles Heyman is a former service officer and lecturer in the Defence Studies at the Royal Air Force College,...
Pen and Sword, 2008. — 385 p. This biography draws heavily on the personal diaries of the subject, Robert Hichens (or 'Hitch' as he was universally known). After a brief description of his early life, time at Oxford, his motor racing achievements (including trophies at Le Mans in his Aston Martin) and RN training, the book focuses on his exceptional wartime experiences. Hitch...
Naval Institute Press, 2021. — 456 p. This is the first book to focus on the Fleet Air Arm's contribution to naval operations in the Mediterranean after the Italian declaration of war in June 1940. The Royal Navy found itself facing a larger and better-equipped Italian surface fleet, large Italian and German air forces equipped with modern aircraft and both Italian and German...
Seaforth Publishing, 2011. — 462 p. In August 1944 the British Pacific Fleet did not exist. Six months later it was strong enough to launch air attacks on Japanese territory, and by the end of the war it constituted the most powerful force in the history of the Royal Navy, fighting as professional equals alongside the US Navy in the thick of the action. How this was achieved by...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 227 p. — (Cambridge Library Collection). This illustrated book, first published in 1936, is an edited compilation of source material drawn from some 145 diverse naval documents covering a period of more than three centuries from 1497 to 1805. The editors' intention was to smooth the approach to a highly technical subject, and to use original...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2011. — 240 p. This is the first biography of Captain Robert Ryder V.C., Royal Navy (1908-1986), one of the greatest naval heroes of the Second World War. Ryder led the audacious raid on St Nazaire in March 1942 which completely destroyed the port’s dry dock, depriving the German’s mighty pocket battleships of its use for the remainder of the war. The raid...
Miegunyah Press, 2005. — 334 p. The story of a boy whose mother forbade him to join the air force, this volume presents a vivid and compelling account of Australian naval history from the firsthand perspective of Marsden Hordern. Through personal letters and journals, his triumphs and disasters as a naval officer and his rise from a young and callow sublieutenant to a...
London: NMM, 2005. — 450 p. From the Middle Ages through the glorious defeat of the Armada, the triumphs of Nelson and the battles of the First and Second World Wars, this entertaining history describes how the Royal Navy turned this country into the world's foremost sea power. Based on never-before-published material from the archives of the National Maritime Museum, including...
Seaforth Publishing, 2012. — 567 p. Founded in 1912 by some of the Royal Navy’s brightest officers, the quarterly Naval Review has never been subject to official censorship, and its naval members do not need official permission to write for it, so it has always provided an independent, lively and at times outspoken forum for service debate. In broad terms, it has covered...
Seaforth Publishing, 2015. — 176 p. This new volume comprehensively covers all those officers who commanded ships or squadrons of the fleets which fought under Nelson’s tactical control at his three great sea battles. Under the editorship of Captain Peter Hore, Nelson’s Band of Brothers has been an international effort, featuring contributors from Canada, Britain, Germany,...
Canelo History, 2021. — 350 p. The Navy almost finished the career of Britain’s greatest wartime leader. As a young minister responsible for the senior service from 1911, Churchill ruffled feathers and gave scant regard for the feelings of the admirals. When disaster struck in the First World War, it was the navy that led to his political downfall. But when he returned to power...
Canelo History, 2021. — 350 p. The Navy almost finished the career of Britain’s greatest wartime leader. As a young minister responsible for the senior service from 1911, Churchill ruffled feathers and gave scant regard for the feelings of the admirals. When disaster struck in the First World War, it was the navy that led to his political downfall. But when he returned to power...
Hachette, 2014. — 320 p. The tragic story of the last Royalist attempt to overthrow the French revolution In the summer of 1793 French Royalists surrendered the great naval base at Toulon to the British, intending this to be the springboard for a full-scale counter-revolution. A multi-national taskforce led by the British, and including Spanish, Austrian and Italian forces,...
Casemate Publishing, 2020. — 288 p. This is the first major biography of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay (1883-1945) in fifty years. Ramsay masterminded the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in 1940. Initially, it was thought that 40,000 troops at most could be rescued. But Ramsay's planning and determination led to some 330,000 being brought back to fight...
Parragon Publishing, 1999. — 95 p. — ISBN-10 0752532197, ISBN-13 978-0752532196 В книга Роберта Джексона вкратце рассказывается о становлении и этапах развития британского королевского флота. Повествование начинается эпохой паруса и заканчивается современностью. Все это сопровождается художественными иллюстрациями кораблей как черно белыми и цветными фотографиями кораблей 19-20...
A new edition, with additions and notes, bringing the work down to 1827. — London: Richard Bentley & son, 1886. — 483 p. James William wrote his six-volume Naval History of Great Britain, 1793–1827 in reaction to American accounts of the War of 1812. Similar in approach, this work was highly critical of the history that his contemporary Captain Edward Pelham Brenton had written on...
A new edition, with additions and notes, bringing the work down to 1827. — London: Richard Bentley & son, 1886. — 510 p. James William wrote his six-volume Naval History of Great Britain, 1793–1827 in reaction to American accounts of the War of 1812. Similar in approach, this work was highly critical of the history that his contemporary Captain Edward Pelham Brenton had written on...
A new edition, with additions and notes, bringing the work down to 1827. — London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1902. — 484 p. James William wrote his six-volume Naval History of Great Britain, 1793–1827 in reaction to American accounts of the War of 1812. Similar in approach, this work was highly critical of the history that his contemporary Captain Edward Pelham Brenton had written on...
A new edition, with additions and notes, bringing the work down to 1827. — London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1902. — 458 p. James William wrote his six-volume Naval History of Great Britain, 1793–1827 in reaction to American accounts of the War of 1812. Similar in approach, this work was highly critical of the history that his contemporary Captain Edward Pelham Brenton had written on...
A new edition, with additions and notes, bringing the work down to 1827. — London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1902. — 418 p. James William wrote his six-volume Naval History of Great Britain, 1793–1827 in reaction to American accounts of the War of 1812. Similar in approach, this work was highly critical of the history that his contemporary Captain Edward Pelham Brenton had written on...
A new edition, with additions and notes, bringing the work down to 1827. — London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1902. — 456 p. James William wrote his six-volume Naval History of Great Britain, 1793–1827 in reaction to American accounts of the War of 1812. Similar in approach, this work was highly critical of the history that his contemporary Captain Edward Pelham Brenton had written on...
Pool of London Press, 2016. — 160 p. Published in the months leading up to the Battle of Jutland, W.M. James’ New Battleship Organisations, was the ultimate guide to command and organization of every aspect of a modern First World War capital ship. The book provides a unique, and highly revealing, insight into life aboard ship, the mechanics of command, seamanship, the issuing...
The Library Press, 1915. — 358 p. This book is not intended to be a full history of the British Navy in the generally accepted sense of the term. For this reason small space is devoted to various strategical and tactical matters of the past which generally bulk largely in more regular naval histories - of which a sufficiency already exist.The warships of the past are of special...
The Library Press, 1915. — 316 p. This book is not intended to be a full history of the British Navy in the generally accepted sense of the term. For this reason small space is devoted to various strategical and tactical matters of the past which generally bulk largely in more regular naval histories - of which a sufficiency already exist.The warships of the past are of special...
Barnes and Noble, 2011. — 357 р. A classic in its genre, Fred T. Jane's history of the British battle fleet focuses on how naval ships came to be-their development from crude warships of the past to intricate and complex machines in the early 1900s. This book is not intended to be a full history of the British Navy in the generally accepted sense of the term. For this reason...
Warszawa: Magnum X, 2002. — 42 s. — (Biblioteka Magazynu Morza Statki i Okrety №7). Opracowanie zawiera opisy budowy i wyposazenia oraz historie sluzby takich okretow jak: Newcastle, Southampton, Sheffield, Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Gloucester.
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2019. — 241 p. Few men have lived such an extraordinary life as Admiral Albert Hastings Markham. Besides dedicating five decades of his career to the Royal Navy, Markham was a voracious reader, prolific writer, keen naturalist, and daring explorer. He battled Chinese pirates during the Second Opium War and Taiping Rebellion; chased down Australian...
Second edition. London: J.H. Haynes & Co Ltd, 2008. — 256 p. ISBN13: 978-1844255627. During the Second World War, Royal Navy motor torpedo boats, motor gunboats and motor launches performed a multitude of dangerous tasks in the English Channel and North Sea. Ferocious close-quarter combat with their German E- and R-boat counterparts could result in glory - or sudden death. This...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 334 p. The construction of an important element in British national identity is explored in Naval Engagements, looking at the ways in which the navy - a major symbol of national community - was given meaning by a range of social groupings. The study is at once a cultural history of national identity, a social history of naval commemoration, and a...
Pen and Sword Aviation, 2017. — 224 p. This book tells the story of an incredibly capable naval aircraft, based primarily on the words of those who flew and maintained it. Beginning with the Lynx's entry into service in 1976, it goes on to discuss its remarkable performance in the Falklands War. Here it was used in both its primary roles of anti-submarine and anti-surface...
Pen & Sword History, 2018. — 200 p. France 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...
Pen & Sword History, 2018. — 200 p. France 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...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 352 р. The launch in 1906 of HMS Dreadnought, the world's first all-big-gun battleship, rendered all existing battle fleets obsolete while at the same time wiping out the Royal Navy's numerical advantage. Britain urgently needed to build an entirely new battle fleet of these larger, more complex and more costly vessels. In this she succeeded...
Uniform Press, 2017. — 320 p. H-Bombs and Hula Girls tells the extraordinary tale of ten bright and cheerful young British midshipmen who were part of Operation Grapple, the top secret thermonuclear weapon tests at Christmas Island in 1957, the first successful test of a British nuclear weapon. Evoking the Cold War atmosphere of Britain in the 1950s as it raced to secure its...
Uniform Press, 2017. — 320 p. H-Bombs and Hula Girls tells the extraordinary tale of ten bright and cheerful young British midshipmen who were part of Operation Grapple, the top secret thermonuclear weapon tests at Christmas Island in 1957, the first successful test of a British nuclear weapon. Evoking the Cold War atmosphere of Britain in the 1950s as it raced to secure its...
Dundurn Press, 2011. — 1065 p. From its creation in 1910, the Royal Canadian Navy was marked by political debate over the countries need for a naval service. The Seabound Coast, Volume I of a three-volume official history of the RCN, traces the story of the navy's first three decades, from its beginnings as Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Lauriers tinpot navy of two obsolescent...
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1999. — 139 p. Without a doubt the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal launched in 1950 was the most famous Royal Navy warship of the post-war era. The fourth ship to bear the name, the "Ark" owes much of this fame to the BBC TV series "Sailor" screened in the early 1970s and its distinctive theme tune "Sailing" by the gravel-voiced Rod Stewart. This book...
Roli Books Private, 2022. — 375 p. In 1946, 20,000 non-commissioned sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutinied. They were inspired by the heroism of the Azad Hind Fauj. But their anger was sparked by terrible service conditions, racism, and broken recruitment promises. In less than 48 hours, 20,000 men took over 78 ships and 21 shore establishments and replaced British flags...
G. P. Putnams Sons, New York, 1969. — 304 p. ISBN: 0213179113 First steps towards a navy War with Spain The Dutch wars War of the Spanish secession War of the Austrian sucession The challenge from France, 1756-1762 Opening the oceans, 1764-1800 War of American independence Life at sea in Nelson's day The Revolutionary War with France Return to the Mediterranean The armed...
Routledge, 2016. — 239 p. In Britain, memory of the First World War remains dominated by the trench warfare of the Western Front. Yet, in 1914 when the country declared war, the overwhelming expectation was that Britain's efforts would be primarily focussed on the sea. As such, this volume is a welcome corrective to what is arguably an historical neglect of the naval aspect of the...
Yale University Press, 2022. — 416 p. The first account of Britain’s convoys during the Napoleonic Wars—showing how the protection of trade played a decisive role in victory. During the Napoleonic Wars thousands of merchant ships crisscrossed narrow seas and wide oceans, protected by Britain’s warships. These were wars of attrition and raw materials had to reach their shores...
Routledge, 2013. — 818 p. This is the first general selection from the substantial body of surviving documents about Elizabeth's navy. It is a companion to The Navy of Edward VI and Mary I (Volume 157 in the NRS Series), where the apparatus serving both volumes was printed, and it complements the other NRS volumes that deal specifically with the Spanish Armada. This collection...
Osprey Publishing, 2011. — 65 p. — (Leadership - Strategy - Conflict). The most famous English admiral in history, Horatio Nelson's string of naval victories helped secure Britain's place as the world's dominant maritime power, a position she held for more than a century after Nelson's death. A young officer during the American Revolution, Nelson rose to prominence during...
Praha: Elka Press, 2008. — 496 p. Битва у испанского мыса Трафальгар, произошедшая 21 октября 1805 года между 33 линейными кораблями франко-испанского флота адмирала Вильнева и 27 британскими кораблями адмирала Нельсона является одним из крупнейших и самых известных морских столкновений в истории. Эта книга, которая действительно заслуживает своего названия, детально и подробно...
Routledge, 2023. — 295 p. According to Voltaire's Candide, Admiral John Byng's 1757 execution went forward to 'encourage the others'. Of course, the story is more complicated. This microhistorical account upon a macro-event presents an updated, revisionist, and detailed account of a dark chapter in British naval history. Asking 'what was Britain like the moment Byng returned to...
Faber and Faber, 2008. — 512 p. From the man described by Amanda Foreman as 'one of the most eminent naval historians of our age' comes the story of how this country's maritime power helped Britain gain unparalleled dominance of the world's economy. Told through the lives of ten of our most remarkable admirals, Andrew Lambert's book spans Elizabethan times to the Second World War,...
Faber and Faber, 2012. — 560 p. In the summer of 1812 Britain stood alone, fighting for her very survival against a vast European Empire. Only the Royal Navy stood between Napoleon's legions and ultimate victory. In that dark hour America saw its chance to challenge British dominance: her troops invaded Canada and American frigates attacked British merchant shipping, the lifeblood...
Naval Institute Press, 2021. — 256 p. Born on the Isle of Man two hundred fifty years ago, Captain John Quilliam has, until now, evaded detailed study of his extraordinary life. While celebrated as a Manx hero, in the wider world beyond the Island one of the most important men on the quarter deck of HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar remains largely unrecognized. Trafalgar,...
Naval Institute Press, 2021. — 255 p. Born on the Isle of Man two hundred fifty years ago, Captain John Quilliam has, until now, evaded detailed study of his extraordinary life. While celebrated as a Manx hero, in the wider world beyond the Island one of the most important men on the quarter deck of HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar remains largely unrecognized. Trafalgar,...
Faber & Faber, 2012. — 576 p. In the summer of 1812 Britain stood alone, fighting for her very survival against a vast European Empire. Only the Royal Navy stood between Napoleon's legions and ultimate victory. In that dark hour America saw its chance to challenge British dominance: her troops invaded Canada and American frigates attacked British merchant shipping, the...
Faber and Faber, 2005. — 356 p. Nelson explores the professional, personal, intellectual and practical origins of the man's genius, to understand how the greatest warrior that Britain has ever produced transformed the art of conflict, and enabled his country to survive the challenge of total war and international isolation. The most authoritative biography of Nelson from Britain's...
Naval Institute Press, 2004. — 212 p. Published on the eve of the two hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, this handsomely illustrated book paints a vibrant picture of the most famous battle of the age of sail. Unlike other books on the subject, which are told mostly from Nelson's point of view or evaluate the battle's effect on world strategy, this definitive new...
New York : US Naval Institute Press, 1989. —319 с.
This is a vast collection of information, fully illustrated with photos of models and contemporary engravings, outlining developments as they were made in the English man-of-war. Lifestyles, customs, and fighting tactics, and their relationship to changes in architecture and fittings, are also covered.
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W. W. Norton & Company, 2009. — 152 p. — ISBN: 0393070093. There is no more famous a vessel in naval fiction than HMS Surprise, the principal ship in Patrick O’Brian’s much-celebrated Aubrey-Maturin series of novels. Yet, this 28-gun frigate also had an eventful real career serving in both the French and then the Royal Navies. It was captured from the French in 1796 and took...
Routledge, 2020. — 680 p. First published in 1998, this volume explores the Royal Navy which had most of its greatest triumphs in the decades up to 1815, but has received relatively little study of its social life and shipboard administration, beyond popular myth and sensational accounts. This volume starts with the formal structure of naval discipline, with Admiralty...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 352 p. Brian Lavery, the pre-eminent historian of the Royal Navy, returns with the third volume of his engaging social history of the Royal Navy's 'lower deck'--the world of the seamen as distinct from the officers of the 'quarterdeck.' He examines the world of the sailor from the outbreak of war in 1939 through 70 years of change up to his place...
Seaforth Publishing, 2021. — 212 p. Despite a supreme belief in itself, the Royal Navy of the early eighteenth century was becoming over-confident and outdated, and it had more than its share of disasters and miscarriages including the devastating sickness in Admiral Hosier’s fleet in 1727; failure at Cartagena, and an embarrassing action off Toulon in 1744. Anson’s great...
Seaforth Publishing, 2021. — 212 p. Despite a supreme belief in itself, the Royal Navy of the early eighteenth century was becoming over-confident and outdated, and it had more than its share of disasters and miscarriages including the devastating sickness in Admiral Hosier’s fleet in 1727; failure at Cartagena, and an embarrassing action off Toulon in 1744. Anson’s great...
Naval Institute Press, 2006. — 290 p. Книга о британском военно-морском флоте времен второй мировой войны (1939-1945). История операций, структура, командный состав, материально-техническое обеспечение, типы кораблей и состав флотов, тактика, применение авиации и подводных лодок.
The History Press, 2011. — 97 p. What was it really like to be at sea in the Navy with Nelson? Were the sailors excited about the Battle of Trafalgar, or suffering scurvy? How did life compare between those of a high range, and those who served them? What were conditions like below the decks, living among the rats and the filth? How did you cope if you suffered from sea...
Batsford Press, 2003. — 128 p. Scotland's geography is virtually ruled by the sea, which forms its boundaries and provides food, livelihood, naval ships and transports. A fascinating view of an often overlooked aspect of naval history.
Seaforth Publishing, 2022. — 208 p. From the time of the Restoration of Charles II, when he returned to England from Breda and was presented with the yacht Mary by the burgomaster of Amsterdam, Royal yachts began to be defined as such in England and built with that special purpose in mind. They were built luxuriously and used for royal visits to the fleet, for diplomacy and for...
Birlinn Ltd., 2007. — 510 p. The Royal Navy has always been seen as an English institution, despite a large Scottish contribution, from Admiral Duncan at Camperdown in 1797 to Andrew Cunningham in the Second World War. The Royal Navys most dramatic effect on Scotland, aside from its role in the British Empire and European wars, was in suppressing the Jacobite campaigns from...
Pool of London Press, 2015. — 352 p. As she lay in dry dock, devastatingly damaged by one of Hitler’s newly deployed magnetic mines after barely two months in service, few could have predicted the illustrious career that lay ahead for the cruiser HMS Belfast. After three years of repairs to her broken keel, engine- and boiler-rooms, and extensive refitting, she would go on to...
Conway, 2009. — 152 p. This handbook, created to provide naval officers in World War II with advice and instruction on all aspects of their job, captures the benevolent language of the day, when authority was respected. It features an Officer’s Aide Memoire, with notes from officer training school; information for medical officers treating battle casualties afloat; counsel for...
Naval Institute Press, 2003. ― 200 р. Description: No fiction writer of the modern period has captured the world of wooden walls, broadsides and the press gang in quite the same way as the late Patrick O'Brian. The twenty books in the O'Brian canon, featuring the"*lives and adventures of Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and confidant, the naval surgeon, Stephen Maturin, are...
Manchester University Press, 2016. — 314 p. Provides a new understanding of the Victorian engineering naval professions, and their rise within the British government and Royal Navy. The nineteenth-century Royal Navy was transformed from a fleet of sailing wooden walls into a steam powered machine. Britain’s warships were her first line of defence, and their transformation...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 222 p. The Home Fleet of the Royal Navy was an important formation during World War II and James Levy tells the story of its history well. Levy reminds his readers of something that is quite easy to forget: naval operations were a critical element in determining the outcome of this war. The Royal Navy could not win the war, but they sure could lose it;...
Routledge, 2024. — 159 p. This work is a close examination of the conditions surrounding and precipitating the last gasp of British naval hegemony and events which led to its demise. Great Britain undertook a massive naval building program in the late-1930s in order to deter aggression and secure dominance at sea against her nascent enemies, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. But...
Routledge, 2024. — 218 p. — ISBN 978-1-003-36881-6. This work is a close examination of the conditions surrounding and precipitating the last gasp of British naval hegemony and events which led to its demise. Great Britain undertook a massive naval building program in the late-1930s in order to deter aggression and secure dominance at sea against her nascent enemies, Nazi...
Big Sky Publishing, 2023. — 540 p. HMAS Sydney was the pride of the fleet during the Second World War. A light cruiser and one of Australia’s main combat vessels. On the 19th November 1941, off the coast of Western Australia, The Sydney engaged in a fierce and bloody battle with the German raider Kormoran. Following this action, The Sydney failed to return to port. An extensive...
Routledge, 2016. — 255 p. From the mid 18th century up till after memories of the Napoleonic wars and the glories of 'Nelson's navy' had faded, the Royal Navy was the bulwark of Britain's defence and the safeguard of trade and imperial expansion. While there have been political and military histories of the Navy in this period, looking at battles and personalities, and studies...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 344 p. During World War I, British naval supremacy enabled it to impose economic blockades and interdiction of American neutral shipping. The United States responded by building "a navy second to none," one so powerful that Great Britain could not again successfully challenge America's vital economic interests. This book reveals that when the...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2009. — 192 p. This beautifully presented book captures the spirit of a little known war where the Royal Navy played a peripheral but crucial role. The power of the British Empire was at its height, thanks to the reach of the Royal Navy and officers from that service who often found themselves far from home and in positions of power way beyond their...
Dundurn Press, 2011. — 197 p. This is the story of six of Canada's Warships HMCS NAPANEE, HMCS BELLEVILLE, HMCS HALLOWELL, HMCS TRENTONIAN, HMCS QUINTE (I), and the HMCS QUINTE (II). These histories give a unique account of the small ships that have been the backbone of the Canadian Navy during the Second World War and the Cold War. The stories record the accomplishments of...
Dundurn Press, 2014. — 152 p. The story of HMCS Oakville, a corvette that fought U-boats in WWII and remains a hero to its hometown in Oakville, Ontario. This is an in-depth look at the history and legacy of HMCS Oakville, a Canadian World War II corvette that fought in the Battle of the Atlantic, and was one of the few corvettes to sink a U-boat. From its creation through its...
Routledge, 2014. — 278 p. This Naval Staff History describes the vital role of the Arctic Convoys, 1941-1945 and was first issued by the Historical Section of the Admiralty as a confidential study for use within the Royal Navy in 1954. It grew out of the earlier Battle Summary No. 22 compiled by Commander J. Owen of the Admiralty’s Historical Section and issued in 1943 to cover...
Routledge, 2014. — 220 p. This book contains the Naval Staff History originally issued by the Admiralty in 1957 as a confidential book for use within the Royal Navy. It has since been declassified and is published here for the first time, along with an extended preface. This volume describes the dangerous convoy operations in the Mediterranean which were necessary to relieve...
Routledge, 2015. — 144 p. Naval histories often stop short at the death of admiral Nelson. This book succinctly fills the gap by covering the golden age of British sea power – the period which saw the defeat of Napoleon, the American War, the expansion of the empire, the introduction of the steamship and the defeat of the first German menace. Not only a galaxy of heroic...
New York: Macmillan, 1963. — 184 p. The year 1797 witnessed two of the greatest victories in British naval St. Vincent and Camperdown... Christopher Lloyd's account of St. Vincent and Camperdown gains immeasurably because the engagements are seen in the strategic context of the war. The battles themselves are described with that understanding of the personalities of the...
Routledge, 2012. — 344 p. This work shows the extent to which the shipping of Africans to the Americas continued after the Abolition Act of 1807. Christopher Lloyd wrote this book in 1949 and it has stood the test of time as an important contribution to the history of the suppression of the slave trade by the British Navy in both the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Lloyd did superb...
Routledge, 2016. — 327 p. The Tudor Navy is a subject which is very unevenly known. The last significant general histories were written at the end of the last century. Since then much detailed research has been undertaken, particularly on the Armada, the end of Henry VIII's reign and the early Elizabethan period. As a result, it has been generally thought that the navy went...
Routledge, 2020. — 428 р. By the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the seven home dockyards of the British Royal Navy employed a workforce of nearly 16,000 men and some women. On account of their size, dockyards add much to our understanding of developing social processes as they pioneered systems of recruitment, training and supervision of large-scale workforces. From 1815-1865 the...
The History Press, 2012. — 192 p. Founded in 1570, Chatham Dockyard quickly became one of the most important naval yards for the repair and building of warships, maintaining a pre-eminent position for the next 400 years. Located on the River Medway, the yard was responsible for the construction of over 500 warships in all, these ranging from simple naval pinnaces to first-rates...
The History Press, 2013. — 208 p. At a time when the Royal Navy was the biggest and best in the world, Georgian London was the hub of this immense industrial-military complex, underpinning and securing a global trading empire that was entirely dependent on the navy for its existence. Philip MacDougall explores the bureaucratic web that operated within the wider city area before...
Pen & Sword Maritime, 2024. — 240 p. The United Irish plot in 1798 aimed to capture British warships, revealing a lesser-known aspect of Irish rebellion history. For Ireland, the year 1798 saw a major rebellion breaking out against rule from London, a time in which Britain was in its fifth year of a hard-fought war against revolutionary France. Set in motion by the Society of...
Pen & Sword Maritime, 2024. — 240 p. The United Irish plot in 1798 aimed to capture British warships, revealing a lesser-known aspect of Irish rebellion history. For Ireland, the year 1798 saw a major rebellion breaking out against rule from London, a time in which Britain was in its fifth year of a hard-fought war against revolutionary France. Set in motion by the Society of...
Frontline Books, 2017. — 448 p. The fact that the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk in May-June 1940 has achieved the status of a legend. Whilst the part played by the ‘Little Ships’ in that ‘miracle’ is equally well known, the role of the Royal Navy’s warships – the destroyers, minesweepers and personnel ships – is often overlooked. Indeed, more than...
Sapere Books, 2021. — 192 p. Edward Hawke’s naval victories were matched only by Horatio Nelson, but few remember him today. So who was this naval genius and what was his contribution to the history of the Royal Navy? A magnificent biography of a brilliant eighteenth century admiral, perfect for readers of Andrew Lambert, Roy Adkins and Ben Wilson. In the fading light of the...
Sapere Books, 2021. — 224 p. A comprehensive biography of one of the key architects of the modern British Royal Navy. During the course of over a sixty year career John Arbuthnot Fisher, commonly known as Jacky Fisher, tirelessly developed innovative tactics, powerful ships and pioneered new nautical technologies to ensure that Britain did not fall behind in the naval arms race...
Routledge, 2020. — 318 p. After the bitter lessons of German self-disarmament in 1919, Britain was far more alert and focused when it came to overseeing the disarmament of Germany's naval forces after World War II. This book shows how well-prepared the British were second time around. Madsen, a young Canadian scholar, has made excellent use of US, Canadian, British, and German...
Book Rags Inc., 2011. — 302 p. The recent close of the nineteenth century has familiarized us with the thought that such an epoch tends naturally to provoke an estimate of the advance made in the various spheres of human activity during the period which it terminates. Such a reckoning, however, is not a mere matter of more and less, of comparison between the beginning and the end,...
Boydell Press, 2016. — 316 p. Churchill once famously remarked that he would not join the navy because it was "all rum, sodomy and the lash". How far this was true of the navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars is the subject of this important new book. Summary punishments, courts martial, flogging and hanging were regularly made use of in this period to...
Lewin of Greenwich Organisation, 2016. — 206 p. Charles Wickham Malins was destined for a life at sea from an early age; joining the Britannia Royal Naval College at Dartmouth in 1927 at the age of thirteen he was already a Commissioned Officer of His Majesty’s Royal Navy before the outbreak of War in 1939. He was, what the Navy calls a “Salthorse” officer, he did not...
Viking Press, Inc., 1971. — 582 p. Fertile as inspiration for fiction from Billy Budd to the Hornblower series, its history as related in detail by G.J.Marcus' The Age of Nelson is as exciting as any novel. Marcus concentrates on naval action but does not neglect either the human component or the broader canvas of social history. Behind it all, we see the deeper forces at work:...
Seaforth Publishing, 2015. — 351 p. This collection of thought-provoking essays by arguably the 20th century's greatest naval historian was first published in 1974, but their continuing relevance fully justifies this reprint. It opens with a stimulating reappraisal of the naval attack on the Dardanelles, the success of which would have made the disastrous Gallipoli land campaign...
Seaforth Publishing, 2015. — 351 p. This collection of thought-provoking essays by arguably the 20th century's greatest naval historian was first published in 1974, but their continuing relevance fully justifies this reprint. It opens with a stimulating reappraisal of the naval attack on the Dardanelles, the success of which would have made the disastrous Gallipoli land...
Octagon Books, 1976. — 580 p. — ISBN 0-374-95284-1. In 1940, Arthur J Marder published this study of the development of British seapower from 1880 to 1905. He later continued a further series of books ending at the surrender of the High Seas fleet at Scapa Flow in 1918. In this volume Marder established the format and scholarly approach that he continued later. What Marder did...
London: Ian Allan Ltd., 1983. — 128 p. — ISBN: 0-7110-1322-5. The wartime frigates. The conversions. The 1951 Frigate Programme. General purpose frigates. Gas turbines and guided missiles. Appendices.
Seaforth Publishing, 2019. — 255 p. The raising of the Mary Rose in 1982 was a remarkable feat of archaeology and her subsequent preservation and display at Portsmouth a triumph of technical skill and imagination. She is more than a relic, however. She has a story to tell, and her sinking in the Solent in 1545, when under attack by the French, and the reasons for it, have...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2013. — 214 p. The author was Navigation/Gunnery Officer on SS Empire Baffin, a 6,978 ton cargo ship. Aged 31 years he compiled this remarkable diary of the dramas and disasters that befell Convoy PQ18 carrying essential war supplies from Great Britain to the Soviet Union. This story follows the movement of the cargo ships and their Royal Naval escorts from...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 231 p. Introduction: The Royal Navy and the British Atlantic The Royal Navy and Caribbean Colonial Society during the Eighteenth Century Ireland and the Royal Navy in the Eighteenth Century Another Look at the Navigation Acts and the Coming of the American Revolution The Royal Navy, the British Atlantic Empire and the Abolition of the Slave Trade At...
Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 2006. — 256 p. Lord George Keith (1746-1823), a Scottish admiral who rose to prominence serving His Majesty from 1761 to 1815, ended his career by overseeing Napoleon's surrender in 1815. Born George Keith Elphinstone, Keith at one time or another held nearly every important command in the British navy, and his story illustrates the navy’s...
Pen and Sword Books, 2010. — 288 p. Tony McCrum was born in Portsmouth in 1919, the second son of a naval lieutenant and a mother who came from a line of naval officers that stretched back to and beyond Trafalgar. He entered the Naval College at Dartmouth in September 1932 and went on to complete his midshipmans time aboard HMS Royal Oak from 1936 to 1939. In January 1939 he...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2021. — 192 p. Leading Seaman Charlie Erswell saw much more than his fair share of action during the Second World War. He was present at the 1942 landing in North Africa (Operation TORCH), D-Day and the liberation of Norway. But his main area of operations was that of the Arctic Convoys, escorting merchant ships taking essential war supplies to the...
Seafort Publishing, 2020. — 272 p. Sovereign of the Seas was the most spectacular, extravagant and controversial warship of the early seventeenth century. The ultimate royal prestige project, whose armament was increased by the King's decree to the unheard-of figure of one hundred guns, the ship finally cost the equivalent of ten more conventional warships. In this book, John...
Endeavour Press, 2017. — 390 p. The iconic ship was a key vessel in the startlingly rapid evolution of the wooden battleship as a floating gun platform. After thirty-four years’ military service, Henry VIII’s revolutionary flagship sank at Spithead, taking with it the mysteries of its construction, armament and daily life. Resisting the efforts of Venetian salvagers in the...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2011. — 352 p. Winston Churchill wrote, “The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.” Had the convoy link between North America and Britain been broken, the course of World War II would have been different. As it was, there was a period during the winter of 1942-43 when the Germans came close to cutting the North...
Emereo Publishing, 2014. — 470 p. This volume contains Fifty-two Stories of the battle's history of the British Navy from Damme to Trafalgar. These stories are arranged chronologically, and, without pretending to be a complete history of the British Navy, provide fifty-two consecutive links of the chain which for a thousand years has bound the sovereignty of the seas to the...
Birlinn, 2012. — 192 p. A fascinating book, in which every reader will find something she/he never knew'? Scots Magazine 'an interesting insight into life in a naval base during two world wars? Broadly Boats Scapa Flow, one of the greatest naval bases in history, resonates through the annals of the Royal Navy during the two great wars of the twentieth century. It was from there...
University of Toronto Press, 1985. — 384 p. Milner focuses primarily on the series of bitter and tragic battles fought by the RCN in the mid-Atlantic during the latter half of 1942. North Atlantic Run fills an important gap in the historiography of wartime Canada and the war at sea.
Tallandier, 2015. — 392 p. Dans la mémoire collective des Français, Trafalgar évoque un malheur et une humiliation irréparables. Pour les Anglais, Trafalgar est une apothéose. Nelson en sort déifié, la Royal Navy en tire un immense prestige et continue au XXIe siècle de célébrer son anniversaire avec une ferveur religieuse. Ce 21 octobre 1805, la flotte britannique commandée...
The History Press, 2011. — 288 p. In the Royal Navy vernacular, the term 'greenie' describes the officers and ratings responsible for the electrical engineering functions of the fleet. Electrical engineering has 'driven' the Royal Navy for far longer than one might imagine, from solving the problem of magnetic interference with the compass by the ironclad early in the 20th...
Routledge, 2015. — 264 p. This work examines British thinking about naval nuclear weapons in the period up to about 1970, looking at the subject through the eyes of the Royal Navy, in the belief that this can offer new insights in this field. The author argues that the Navy was always sceptical about nuclear weapons, both on practical grounds and because of wartime and pre-war...
Routledge, 2012. — 324 p. Joseph Moretz's innovative work focuses on what battleships actually did in the inter-war years and what its designed war role in fact was. In doing so, the book tells us much about British naval policy and planning of the time. Drawing heavily on official Admiralty records and private papers of leading officers, the author examines the navy's...
Routledge, 2004. — 305 p. Recent work on the growth of British naval power during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has emphasised developments in the political, constitutional and financial infrastructure of the British state. Naval Power and British Culture, 1760-1850 takes these considerations one step further, and examines the relationship of administrative culture...
Routledge, 2020. — 388 p. During 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,...
Routledge, 2020. — 714 p. During the French Revolutionary War the Channel Fleet played the crucial role of defending Britain from invasion, protecting Britain’s incoming and outgoing trade through the Channel and Western Approaches, and preventing the French Brest fleet from setting forth on raids and expeditions. Presenting documents revealing the evolution of this role during...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 352 p. During the French wars (1793-1801, 1803-1815) the system of promotion to flag rank in the Royal Navy produced a cadre of admirals numbering more than two hundred at its peak. These officers competed vigorously for a limited number of appointments at sea and for the high honours and significant financial rewards open to successful naval...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 352 p. During the French wars (1793-1801, 1803-1815) the system of promotion to flag rank in the Royal Navy produced a cadre of admirals numbering more than two hundred at its peak. These officers competed vigorously for a limited number of appointments at sea and for the high honours and significant financial rewards open to successful naval...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 259 p. Exploring the professional and political ideas of Newfoundland naval governors during the French Wars, this book traces the evolution of the Naval Governorship and administration of the region, shedding a light on a critical period of its early modern history. Contextualising Newfoundland as part of Britain’s broader Atlantic Empire, Morrow...
The Wellington Trust, 2006. — 124 p. HMS Wellington (launched Devonport, 1934) is a Grimsby-class sloop, formerly of the Royal Navy. During the Second World War, she served as a convoy escort ship in the North Atlantic. She is now moored alongside the Victoria Embankment, at Temple Pier, on the River Thames in London, England, as the headquarters ship of the Honourable Company...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2010. — 465 p. — (History of Warfare 58). This important new book provides the first detailed and clear analysis of the Scots involvement in naval warfare during the early modern period. The lazy use by both contemporaries and some modern authors of the word ‘piracy’ as a catch-all for all sorts of maritime activity obscures a complex picture of...
Family Murray Trust, 2019. — 132 p. The only complete history of Australia's World War II fleet destroyer, HMAS Nepal. This book is a description of the service during World War II of the Australian fleet destroyer, HMAS Nepal, including the period when Allan's great-uncle, Bobby Forbes, was a crew member. The period 1939-1943 is the focus of Part One of this book, the time...
Penguin, 2022. — 316 p. If Britain's maritime history were embodied in a single ship, she would have a prehistoric prow, a mast plucked from a Victorian steamship, the hull of a modest fishing vessel, the propeller of an ocean liner and an anchor made of stone. We might call her Asunder , and, fantastical though she is, we could in fact find her today, scattered in fragments...
Penguin Books, 2022. — 316 p. If Britain's maritime history were embodied in a single ship, she would have a prehistoric prow, a mast plucked from a Victorian steamship, the hull of a modest fishing vessel, the propeller of an ocean liner and an anchor made of stone. We might call her Asunder, and, fantastical though she is, we could in fact find her today, scattered in...
Harper Perennial, 2006. — 400 p. An unforgettable look at the contradictions of heroism, as embodied by Horatio Nelson and as tested by the battle of Trafalgar. Adam Nicolson looks at the variety of qualities – ruthlessness, bravery, kindness, cruelty – that combined in both Nelson and his troops to carry that fateful day. Trafalgar gripped the nineteenth century imagination...
Harper Collins, 2005. — 341 p. In Seize the Fire, Adam Nicolson, author of the widely acclaimed God's Secretaries, takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets in October 1805, and uses it to examine our idea of heroism and the heroic. Is violence a necessary aspect of the hero? And daring? Why did the cult of the hero flower...
Harper Collins, 2005. — 341 p. In Seize the Fire, Adam Nicolson, author of the widely acclaimed God's Secretaries, takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets in October 1805, and uses it to examine our idea of heroism and the heroic. Is violence a necessary aspect of the hero? And daring? Why did the cult of the hero flower in...
Boydell and Brewer, 2022. — 248 p. This book sets out the lives of seventeen 'young gentlemen' who were midshipmen under the famous Captain Sir Edward Pellew. Together, aboard the frigate HMS Indefatigable, they fought a celebrated action in 1797 against theFrench ship of the line Les Droits de l'Homme. C. S. Forester, the historical novelist, placed his famous hero, Horatio...
Casemate, 2018. — 208 p. Jake Wright’s initiation to war was on the beach at Dunkirk, helping evacuate stragglers. Then volunteering for Motor Torpedo Boats, he served with valor throughout World War II, becoming one of only 44 officers in WWII to receive a DSC with two Bars. Derek Wright learned about small boats from his father, who tragically died when Derek was just 14...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2008. — 304 p. Vice Admiral Cuthbert (Cuddy) Collingwood may have been 10 years older than Horatio Nelson but he was Nelson's close friend from the outset. They served together for over 30 years and only at Trafalgar, was Nelson his superior officer.The relationship is all the stranger as their temperaments greatly differed. Collingwood was reserved,...
Pen and Sword, 2015. — 248 p. In 1798 Napoleon Bonaparte, who was all but Master of Europe, assembled a formidable expeditionary force at Toulon. While its purpose was unknown there was every reason to believe that Great Britain was its destination and the Nation was on invasion alert. The overwhelming British priority was for a fleet to be assembled and sent to the...
Pen and Sword Books, 2015. — 252 p. In 2002 the wreck of a British cruiser was located by divers off the coast of Tunisia. The stunning photographs of the wreck inspired Dr Richard Osborne to delve into the controversy surrounding the loss of one of the Royal Navy's proudest ships HMS Manchester. After taking part in the Norway campaign of 1940, Manchester was sent to the...
London, 1854. Pages: 190. Written in 1854, this biography of Admiral Exmouth was painfully researched. Exmounth's eldest brother along with several men who served with the admiral verified all of the incidents related in the book. Exmouth was a British naval officer who fought in the American War of Independence, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Exmouth earned his...
Illustrator: Wright Paul — Osprey Publishing, 2023. — 84 p. The British Pacific Fleet was the Royal Navy's primary contribution to the direct defeat of Japan in 1945, and is among the most powerful fleets Britain has ever sent into action. With naval supremacy in home waters achieved by 1944, many of the best and most modern ships in the Royal Navy could be sent to the Pacific,...
Illustrator Laurier Jim. — Osprey Publishing, 2024. — 84 p. Throughout its history, the Royal Navy's most powerful fleet has been the one guarding home waters. In this book, naval historian Angus Konstam explores the fighting power, the roles, and the battles of the Home Fleet, in the crucial first years of World War II when it was Britain's most powerful fighting force,...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2017. — 208 p. On 22 May 1941 the cruiser HMS Gloucester (The Fighting 'G') was sunk by aircraft of the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Crete. Of her crew of 807 men, only 83 survived to come home at the end of the War in 1945. It is unknown how many men went down with the ship and how many died in the sea clinging to rafts and flotsam during the many...
Routledge, 2017. — 248 p. — ISBN13 9781138935648. — ISBN10 1138935646. This book, originally published in 1975 and authored by an ex-Naval officer, assesses the performance and management of the Royal Navy in the twentieth century. It examines the nature and tasks of the twentieth century Navy, by tracing the fortunes of it under successive First Sea Lords. It examines how the...
Lume Books, 2021. — 154 p. This is the classic, comprehensive biography of a British naval hero. So began the challenge to equal combat that Captain Philip Broke sent to Captain Lawrence of the United States frigate Chesapeake on 1 June 1813. The same afternoon Lawrence sailed to meet him; the resulting engagement is perhaps the most celebrated single-ship duel in the annals of...
Lume Books, 2021. — 290 p. Between 1793 and 1805, Britain fought a series of naval battles against the new French Republic. In this text, Padfield throws controversial light on the battle tactics of the famous action at Camperdown, the Nile Copenhagen and Trafalgar to show just how unconventional they were. Has the authentic tang of the sea, salty, sharp, refreshing.’ Yorkshire...
Lume Books, 2021. — 290 p. Between 1793 and 1805, Britain fought a series of naval battles against the new French Republic. In this text, Padfield throws controversial light on the battle tactics of the famous action at Camperdown, the Nile Copenhagen and Trafalgar to show just how unconventional they were. Has the authentic tang of the sea, salty, sharp, refreshing.’ Yorkshire...
Routledge, 1981. — 265 p. It is hard today to envisage the era when the Royal Navy ruled the seas, its cruisers and gunboats policing Britain's worldwide empire and trade, its battlefleet providing the force behind Britain's global power. It was a legendary service carrying an aura of invincibility from its victorious history culminating in Trafalgar even as its ships changed...
Greystone Books, 2018. — 334 p. The story of a ship begins after the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, when Great Britain had more bomb ships than it had enemies. The solid, reinforced hulls of HMS Erebus, and another bomb ship, HMS Terror, made them suitable for discovering what lay at the coldest ends of the earth. In 1839, Erebus was chosen as the flagship of an expedition to...
Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 144 p. Rigidly organised and harshly disciplined, the Georgian Royal Navy was an orderly and efficient fighting force which played a major role in Great Britain's wars of the 18th and early 19th centuries. This concise book explores what it was like to be a sailor in the Georgian Navy - focusing on the period from 1714 to 1820, this book examines the...
Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 144 p. Rigidly organised and harshly disciplined, the Georgian Royal Navy was an orderly and efficient fighting force which played a major role in Great Britain's wars of the 18th and early 19th centuries. This concise book explores what it was like to be a sailor in the Georgian Navy - focusing on the period from 1714 to 1820, this book examines the...
Sampson Low, Marston and Co., 1922. — 192 p.
Foreword:
This book is written for those who feel more than a passing interest in what is still our First Line of Defence ; to whom a ship should be a living entity, something to be recognised and understood with a little of technical knowledge and a memory of what has been and not merely to be regarded as a grey hulk of steel with...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 288 p. At War in Distant Waters investigates the reasons behind Great Britain’s combined military and naval offensive expeditions outside of Europe during the Great War. Often regarded as unnecessary sideshows to the conflict waged on the European continent, Pattee argues that the various campaigns were necessary adjuncts to the war in Europe, and...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2011. — 176 p. On entering the Mediterranean, the convoy was subjected to prolonged ferocious air and submarine attacks and suffered terrific losses both in warship escorts and merchant men. Ohio, being the only tanker, was marked for particular attention, and during the course of her voyage suffered a direct hit from a torpedo, direct bomb hits, any...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 304 p. The story of HMS Bellerophon is a record of the many and varied duties which the Royal Navy had to carry out in the period 1793 – 1815. It was involved in the first great fleet action of the War and was involved in the last moments of the struggle with the surrender of Napoleon. The 74-gun ship was the standard unit in the line of battle,...
Seaforth Publishing, 2016. — 177 p. In the inter-war years Richard Perkins, a keen amateur photographer and avid collector, amassed one of the worlds largest personal collections of warship negatives. This he eventually bequeathed to the National Maritime Museum, where it still forms the core of the historic photos naval section. While he was actively acquiring photos, he found...
Pen and Sword Books, 2017. — 192 p. The Richard Perkins warship identification albums form one of the most detailed studies ever undertaken of the changes to the appearance of Royal Navy ships. In collaboration with the National Maritime Museum, the publication of this monumental work in a superbly produced multi-volume edition captures all the qualities of the original. Every...
Seaforth Publishing, 2016. — 237 p. The Royal Navy's monitors rarely receive much coverage in naval books but here every type variation is pictured, including all the river monitors - 84 drawings in total, going back to Edward Reeds' 'Cerebus' and 'Cyclops' classes of the 1860's and 1870's which, with their twin turrets and central superstructure, prefigured the latter day...
The History Press, 2014. — 352 p. The Royal Dockyard at Pembroke Dock produced over 250 warships for the Royal Navy, including five royal yachts, between its founding in 1814 and its closure after the First World War. Prior to this, no ocean-going ships had ever been built on the south shores of Milford Haven, where the most complex piece of machinery used was the horse-drawn...
The History Press, 2021. — 304 p. In 1682, Charles II invited his scandalous younger brother, James, Duke of York, to return from exile and take his rightful place as heir to the throne. To celebrate, the future king set sail in a fleet of eight ships destined for Edinburgh, where he would reunite with his young pregnant wife. Yet disaster struck en route, somewhere off the...
Pen and Sword Books, 2011. — 224 p. Generations of readers have enjoyed the adventures of Jim Hawkins, the young protagonist and narrator in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, but little is known of the real Jim Hawkins and the thousands of poor boys who went to sea in the eighteenth century to man the ships of the Royal Navy. This groundbreaking new work is a study of...
Pen and Sword, 2006. — 256 p. Captain of the Royal Navy Alan William Frank Sutton's enthralling biography starts when, as a young midshipman he was in command of a small rowing cutter returning a potentially mutinous crew to the battle-cruiser HMS Repulse in which he served. Amazingly it ends in the open cockpit of a Fairy Swordfish torpedo bomber during the legendary night...
Rosenberg Publishing, 2012. — 504 p. Australia and New Zealand have a proud record of sending troops overseas to fight for Great Britain. This book chronicles the transporting of these troops by ship to overseas destinations starting with the Sudan Campaign in 1865 and ending with Vietnam. It is a story not told before, about an aspect of war that has been largely overlooked by...
Thistle Publishing, 2013. — 530 p. This biography of Admiral Horatio Nelson juxtaposes details of his daily life, loves, friendships and opinions with the great events which make him one of the most memorable figures in British history. This is the story of the man who saved Britain from invasion and gave it maritime supremacy. The book was runner-up for the Whitbread Biography...
Thistle Publishing, 2013. — 530 p. This biography of Horatio Nelson juxtaposes details of his daily life, loves, friendships and opinions with the great events which make him one of the most memorable figures in British history. This is the story of the man who saved Britain from invasion and gave it maritime supremacy. The book was runner-up for the Whitbread Biography Award. Tom...
Leo Cooper, 1983. — 250 p. HMS Vindex (D15) was a Nairana-class escort carrier of the British Royal Navy that saw naval service during the Second World War. She was built at Swan Hunter shipyards in Newcastle upon Tyne. When construction started in 1942 she was intended as a merchant ship, but was completed and launched as an escort carrier, entering service at the end of 1943....
Endeavour Press, 2016. — 352 p. A wonderfully compelling examination of the infamous episode immortalized by Voltaire in Candide. Admiral John Byng was shot on the deck of the HMS Monarch on March 14, 1757. His offense: following his superiors' orders. The British navy sent in 1756 his poorly armed and completed ships to fight the French, using outdated tactics. The offensive...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 188 p. First published in 1928, this was one of the first in-depth studies to investigate why the English navy was unable to prevent William of Orange's invasion in 1688. Edward B. Powley argues that a combination of bad strategic choices as well as adverse weather, William's so-called 'Protestant wind', resulted in the Navy failing to stop the...
Longmans, Green and Company, 1967. — 208 p. In an action-filled narrative, the authors tell the remarkable story of the Victorian Royal Navy's fleet of small warships used to enforce the Pax Britannica around the world for half a century. Frequently acting without orders and largely beyond the reach of Admiralty interference, the gunboats' young commanding officers intervened...
W.H. Smith, 1985. — 200 p. The official history of the Royal Navy began with the formal establishment of the Royal Navy as the national naval force of the Kingdom of England in 1660, following the Restoration of King Charles II to the throne. However, for more than a thousand years before that there had been English naval forces varying in type and organization. In 1707 it...
Bison Books, 1987. — 232 p. Discusses the progress and changes in the British Royal Navy since 1900, with special sections on uniforms, warship design, and the relationship of the Admiralty with the shipyards, as well as the wars and naval battles.
New York, NY: W.W. Nortion & Company, 1996. — 299 p. — ISBN: 0-393-03846-7. They had names like Arethusa , Iphigenia , and Imperieuse , dashing names “as long as the maintop bowline, and hard enough to break your jaw” (Captain Frederick Marryat). They inspired the creations of such heroic fictional captains as C.S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower and Patrick O’Brian’s Jack...
Penguin Books, 2011. — 576 p. The deck and the bridge were pointing to the sky at an alarming angle and our thoughts were to get the devil out of it and into the water. Almost in unison we shouted "for God's sake jump boys. Citizen Sailors is a groundbreaking people's history of the Royal Navy in the Second World War. Drawing on hundreds of contemporary diaries and letters,...
Seaforth Publishing, 2010. — 224 p. Set up in August 1905, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary – unofficial motto: Ready for Anything – was originally a logistic support organization, Admiralty-owned but run on civilian lines, comprising a miscellaneous and very unglamorous collection of colliers, store ships and harbor craft. This book charts its rise in fleet strength, capability and...
Seaforth Publishing, 2010. — 272 p. Set up in August 1905, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary was originally a logistic support organization, part of the Navy proper but run on civilian lines, comprising a miscellaneous and very unglamorous collection of colliers, store ships and harbor craft. Just over a century later it has evolved beyond recognition: its ships compare in size, cost...
Eumenes Publishing, 2019. — 136 p. Undersea Warrior, first published in 1956 as Frogman, is the account of the war-time and post-war adventures of decorated British Commander Lionel Kenneth Crabb, a pioneer in the use of early scuba equipment and its use to locate and remove enemy mines, rescue trapped submariners, and other vital war activities. Author Marshall Pugh and Crabb...
Naval Institute Press, 2015. — 280 p. The story of Fort McHenry's defense during the War of 1812 is well known, but Lion in the Bay is an intimate look at the events leading up to the battle that inspired our national anthem. As the War of 1812 raged on the high seas and along the Canadian border, the British decided to strike at the heart of the United States, the relatively...
Bivouak Books Ltd., 1973. — 54 p. — ISBN: 85680-003-1. Ensign No 2 covers the Dido class cruisers. With sixteen ships in the class it is not surprising that several have been somewhat neglected, while others such as the Dido have always attracted attention. We have attempted to remedy this state of affairs within this volume and although there are more photos for some than for...
RSV Publications; Arms and Armour Press, 1978. — 56 p. — (Man O'War 01). — ISBN: 0-85368-213-5. Monograph on this famous class of Royal Navy Heavy Cruisers conceived in the 1920s and which saw action much action in World War 2.
Bivouak Books Ltd., 1973. — 54 p. — ISBN: 0856800082. The raison d'etre of the Southampton class cruisers (or Town class as they were later known) was very simple - a case of "keeping up with the neighbours". Their design history however' was quite complex, especially in the case of the later modified Town class. They were conceived in 1933 when it was learned that the Japanese...
I.B. Tauris and Company, 2014. — 388 p. Since 1900, the Royal Navy has seen vast operational changes. This book tells the story, not just of victory and defeat, but also of how the Navy has adjusted to a century of rapid technological and social change. The extensive reforms made by Admiral Fisher at the dawn of the twentieth century saw the navy's nineteenth-century wooden...
I.B. Tauris, 2014. — 250 p. The Royal Navy's operations in World War II started on 3 September 1939 and continued until the surrender of Japan in August 1945 - there was no 'phoney war' at sea. The navy played a central role in the evacuation of the retreating British army at Dunkirk, and later orchestrated the sinking of Germany's mighty battleship and Hitler's pride, the...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2024. — 216 p. The Isle of Man is predominantly a maritime nation. For many generations its menfolk have made their living from the sea, sometimes as fishermen, but often as crewmen aboard merchant vessels or warships. Indeed, such were their skills of seamanship that they were in great demand for the latter in time of war. As smugglers, or as privateers...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2024. — 216 p. The Isle of Man is predominantly a maritime nation. For many generations its menfolk have made their living from the sea, sometimes as fishermen, but often as crewmen aboard merchant vessels or warships. Indeed, such were their skills of seamanship that they were in great demand for the latter in time of war. As smugglers, or as privateers...
Origin Press, 2022. — 255 p. During the Second World War the Royal Navy’s vitally important Anti-submarine Experimental Establishment was secretly moved from Portland in Dorset to the Ayrshire village of Fairlie, to escape German bombing on the south coast. For the next six years it occupied the boatyard of yacht builder William Fife on the Firth of Clyde. During this time,...
The History Press, 2013. — 256 p. World War I was the first real time in 100 years that the reputation of the British Royal Navy was put on the line in defense of the country. This book tells of the creation and development of the Grand Fleet under the drive of the energetic and charismatic admiral of the fleet, "Jacky" Fisher, who modernized the navy with the introduction of the...
I.B. Tauris, 2018. — 288 р. The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) was created in 1917, re-formed in 1938 and maintained after 1945. This book determines for the first time the reasons for the expansion and contraction of the service and the impact key individuals had on it and in turn the influence it had on its members. Hannah Roberts offers new insights into a previously...
I.B. Tauris, 2018. — 288 р. The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) was created in 1917, re-formed in 1938 and maintained after 1945. This book determines for the first time the reasons for the expansion and contraction of the service and the impact key individuals had on it and in turn the influence it had on its members. Hannah Roberts offers new insights into a previously...
Constable & Company, 1921. — 416 p. The notes on which these essays are based were collected in the course of two commissions spent under the lee of the Admiralty library, close to the Royal United Service Institution, and in touch with the Reading Room of the British Museum and other public sources of information. The lack of a book describing in popular language the...
Seafort Publishing, 2009. — 208 p. The author of two critically acclaimed books on Captain Cook, John Robson has now turned his attention to the decade leading up to Cook's famous 1768 expedition to the Pacific. This new book investigates why Cook was chosen to captain Endeavor and how he became uniquely qualified for the exacting tasks of exploration. Displaying much new...
I.B. Tauris, 2014. — 304 p. The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars were the first truly global conflicts. The Royal Navy was a key player in the wider wars and, for Britain, the key factor in her eventual emergence as the only naval power capable of sustained global hegemony. The most iconic battles of any era were fought at sea during these years - from the Battle of the...
I.B. Tauris, 2016. — 250 p. The Seven Years War (1756-1763) was the first global conflict and became the key factor in creating the British Empire. This book looks at Britain's maritime strategic, operational and tactical success (and failures), through a wide-ranging history of the Royal Navy's role in the war. By the end of the war in 1763 Britain was by no means a hegemonic...
Routledge, 2019. — 345 p. The articles collected here (two appearing for the first time in English) cover a number of topics central to naval history and illustrate the author's contention that this is not only, or even chiefly, a distinct area of special study, but rather a central theme running through the history of England, and of the whole British Isles. Though the...
Penguin, 2006. — 976 p. The Command of the Ocean describes with unprecedented authority and scholarship the rise of Britain to naval greatness, and the central place of the Navy and naval activity in the life of the nation and government. Based on the author's own research in a dozen languages over more than a decade, it describes not just battles, voyages, and cruises but also...
W. W. Norton and Company, 1999. — 692 p. Throughout the chronicle of Britain's history, one factor above all others has determined the fate of kings, the security of trade, and the integrity of the realm. Without its navy, Britain would have been a weakling among the nations of Europe, could never have built or maintained the empire, and in all likelihood would have been overrun...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2007. — 174 p. The press gang, and its forcible recruitment of sailors to man the Royal Navy in times of war, acquired notoriety for depriving men of their liberty and carrying them away to a harsh life at sea, sometimes for years at a time. Nicholas Rogers explains exactly how the press gang worked, whom it was aimed at and how successful it was in...
Osprey Publishing, 2009. — 320 p. "The fought like young Nelsons." The words of a schoolmaster, writing from aboard HMS Mars after the battle of Trafalgar, describing the valor of his pupils in the heat of battle. Made immortal by the novels of Patrick O'Brian, C. S. Forester and Alexander Kent, these boy sailors, alongside those of every other Royal Navy ship, had entered the...
Scribner, 2022. — 761 р. — ISBN 978-1-9821-2826-5 The most feared ship in Britain’s West Africa Squadron, His Majesty’s brig Black Joke was one of a handful of ships tasked with patrolling the western coast of Africa in an effort to end hundreds of years of global slave trading. Sailing after the spectacular fall of Napoleon in France, yet before the rise of Queen Victoria’s...
Routledge, 2003. — 480 p. This volume of Naval Miscellany contains documents which range in date from the late thirteenth century to the Korean War. They illustrate the many different ways in which the naval forces of the crown have served the realm. Topics covered include the role of ships in campaigns against Scotland under Edward I and Edward VI, the protection of the...
Great Britain, Seaforth Publishing, Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2013. — 208 p. We often think of England in terms of Shakespeare's "precious stone set in a silver sea," safe behind its watery ramparts with its naval strength resisting all invaders. To the English of an earlier period - from the eighth to the eleventh centuries - such a notion would have seemed absurd. To them, the sea...
Naval Institute Press, 2018. — 432 p. Stephen Roskill's magnificent biography explains why Admiral David Beatty has come to be seen as Britain's last naval hero. His early promise led to fast promotion and he became the youngest admiral since Nelson. But that is only one part of the story and there are aspects of his character that were not entirely admirable. There were, and...
Pen and Sword Naval, 2014. — 352 p. Winston Churchill enjoyed two stints as First Lord of the Admiralty, at the start of the First World War and at the start of the Second War. He retained close interest in Naval matters, especially as the defeat of the U-boat menace was so vital in both wars to maintain the vital supplies so necessary for Britain’s war efforts. Indeed, Churchill...
Gutenberg, 2009. — 224 p. Admiral of the Red James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez (1757–1836) was an admiral of the British Royal Navy, known for his victory at the Second Battle of Algeciras. Saumarez was bi-lingual, tall at just under six feet, handsome, fashionable and elegant, urbane and charitable, erect and correct, formal and ceremonious in manner, without the least...
Seafort Publishing, 2020. — 352 p. In one of the most sensational and perplexing incidents in naval history, Rear Admiral Richard Kempenfelt, a much-voyaged veteran and outstanding officer, drowned along with more than 800 crew and many civilian visitors on a calm summer's morning and in a familiar anchorage. This new work examines that tragedy the sudden capsizing at Spithead...
Wagram Press, 2014. — 202 p. Includes 12 illustrations The name of Horatio Nelson still rings across the United Kingdom, and further afield, as a great and gallant naval hero worthy of remembrance through the ages, his statue still stands atop a lofty column in one of the busiest squares in the world. However Nelson was only one of many heroes that fought the French Navy during...
Penguin Random House Australia, 2013. — 40 p. Rising out of the Second World War, the Royal Australian Navy clearance diver has become one of the most respected and versatile operators in the military world. Life on the Edge is just one thrilling episode in their remarkable and courageous history.This incredible true-life adventure story, taken from the highly acclaimed Navy...
Casemate, 2018. — 272 p. The combined forces invasion of the Belgian port of Zeebrugge on 23 April 1918 remains one of Britain’s most glorious military undertakings; not quite as epic a failure as the charge of the Light Brigade, or as well publicized as the Dam Busters raid, but with many of the same basic ingredients. A force drawn from the Royal Navy and Royal Marines set...
Casemate, 2018. — 272 p. The combined forces invasion of the Belgian port of Zeebrugge on 23 April 1918 remains one of Britain’s most glorious military undertakings; not quite as epic a failure as the charge of the Light Brigade, or as well publicized as the Dam Busters raid, but with many of the same basic ingredients. A force drawn from the Royal Navy and Royal Marines set...
University of Delaware Press, 1979. — 335 p. Study and analysis of the development of the capital battleship during the second half of the 19th century. Emphasis on British naval architecture and design. This is an excellent story of the development of the British capital ship (i.e., battleship) in the period 1860 to about 1870. I thought the most interesting parts were Chapter...
Pen and Sword Military, 2008. — 158 p. In this timeless book, Vice Admiral Schofield describes the great events of June 1944 which, as Captain of HMS Dryad, the Royal Naval shore establishment which housed General Dwight Eisenhower’s Supreme Allied Headquarters before the landing, he witnessed at first hand.
Pen & Sword, 2011. — 192 p. Admiral Schofield’s accounts of the Taranto and Bismarck battles make for unforgettable reading. The author traces the development of British naval aviation from its early beginnings in 1912, through the First World War and the frustrations of the inter-war years. The November 1940 attack on the Italian fleet in its strongly defended base at Taranto...
Pen and Sword, 2019. — 288 p. The Royal Navy that Brian Bethen Schofield joined at the beginning of the Twentieth Century truly ruled the waves. Safe anchorages spanned the globe and faster, better armored ships with revolutionary weaponry were coming into service. After serving as a midshipman in The Great War, Schofield qualified as a navigator and interpreter in French and...
Pen and Sword, 2019. — 288 p. The Royal Navy that Brian Bethen Schofield joined at the beginning of the Twentieth Century truly ruled the waves. Safe anchorages spanned the globe and faster, better armored ships with revolutionary weaponry were coming into service. After serving as a midshipman in The Great War, Schofield qualified as a navigator and interpreter in French and...
New York: Atheneum, 1990. — 421 p. Early on the morning of October 21st, 1805, the British Fleet, commanded by Admiral Lord Nelson, encountered the French navy a few miles off the Spanish coast near Cape Trafalgar. As it became clear that a fight was inevitable, the French and English ships drew into battle formation. Aboard his flagship Victory, Nelson offered his famous laconic...
Routledge, 2014. — 218 p. The technical transformation of the Royal Navy during the Victorian era posed many design, tactical and operational problems for administrators from the 1830s onwards. The switch from sail to steam required the creation of a system of defended coaling stations and a greater infrastructure.
Cassell, 1965. — 219 p. This book is about a small group of men who in something under fifty years changed British naval history from patriotic antiquarian pastime into a serious academic occupation, with science rules, standards and techniques. Until 1867, naval history, other than a records of the battles, could hardly be said to have existed.
Naval Institute Press, 2009. — 457 p. First published in 1945, this now classic account of the fight for control of the English Channel and the southern North Sea is told by Sir Peter Scott, a MTB (Motor Torpedo Boat) commander, who saw action throughout World War II. More than a memoir, his book tells the whole story of the small ships and their legendary crews during fierce...
Sea Power Centre Australia, 2019. — 143 p. The tradition of naming ships of the Royal Australian Navy's fleet after our nation's cities and towns began when the Royal Australian Navy Fleet Unit was created in the years immediately preceding World War I. When the Australian Fleet Unit first arrived in Sydney on 4 October 1913 it was led into Port Jackson by the flagship HMAS...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 198 p. Naval tradition? Naval tradition? Monstrous. Nothing but rum, sodomy, prayers and the lash. This quotation, from Winston Churchill, is frequently dismissed as apocryphal or a jest, but, interestingly, all four of the areas of naval life singled out in it were ones that were subject to major reform initiatives while Churchill was in charge...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 197 p. When and why did the Royal Navy come to view the expansion of German maritime power as a threat to British maritime security? Contrary to current thinking, Matthew S. Seligmann argues that Germany emerged as a major threat at the outset of the twentieth century, not because of its growing battle fleet, but because the British Admiralty...
Ashgate, 2015. — 559 p. The intense rivalry in battleship building that took place between Britain and Germany in the run up to the First World War is seen by many as the most totemic of all armaments races. Blamed by numerous commentators during the inter-war years as a major cause of the Great War, it has become emblematic of all that is wrong with international competitions in...
Amberley Publishing, 2015. — 158 p. Li Wo had been built in 1935 for running a passenger service on the River Yangtse. In 1940, she was requisitioned and commissioned into the Royal Navy at Singapore as HMS Li Wo. Shortly before the surrender of Singapore in February 1942, HMS Li Wo was ordered to head for Batavia, now Jakarta in Indonesia. After coming under air attack, the Li...
Lume Books, 2015. — 284 p. Renowned for his bravery in battle, Sir Sidney was a key figure of the turn of the nineteenth century who gave Britain leadership against the French dictator Napoleon. In spite of this, in subsequent years his reputation was tarnished by contemporary historians due to a brief consort with the Princess of Wales and allegedly disobeying Admiral Nelson’s...
Endeavour Press, 2018. — 211 p. In 1915 Germany dominated Central Africa with its naval control of Lake Tanganyika. The Lake formed the boundary between German East Africa (now Tanzania) and the Belgian Congo, and no Allied vessel could be brought against the gunboat because the only completed railway to the Lake was in German territory. No British or Belgian forces could...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 293 p. This book offers the first in-depth enquiry into the origins of 135 Indigenous Australian objects acquired by the Royal Navy between 1795 and 1855 and held now by the British Museum. In response to increasing calls for the ‘decolonisation’ of museums and the restitution of ethnographic collections, the book seeks to return knowledge of the...
Routledge, 1997. — 728 p. Sir James Somerville (1882-1949) was one of the great influences on the 20th-century navy, both as a commander of fleets and a pioneer of radio and radar. The Admiral's extensive correspondence, diaries and reports are deposited in the Churchill Archives Centre at Cambridge. These edited selections reveal much of the background about major naval...
Routledge, 2004. — 305 p. Cunningham was the best-known and most celebrated British admiral of the Second World War. He held one of the two major fleet commands between 1939 and 1942, and in 1942-1943, he was Allied naval commander for the great amphibious operations in the Mediterranean. From 1943 to 1946, he was the First Sea Lord and a participant in the wartime conferences...
London, Franc Cass, 2004. - 281 p. Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham (1883-1963) was the best-known and most celebrated British admiral of the Second World War. He held one of the two major fleet commands between 1939 and 1942, and in 1942-43, he was Allied naval commander for the great amphibious operations in the Mediterranean. From 1943 to 1946, he was the First Sea Lord and a...
Seaforth Publishing, 2022. — 255 p. This is the story of Admiral Sir John Balchen, his life and career, and HMS Victory, the largest, finest ship-of-the-line in the Royal Navy at the time, which he commanded when both were lost, along with more than 1,000 crew, in an October storm in the English Channel in 1744. This is not the Victory of Trafalgar fame, however, but the First...
Seaforth Publishing, 2022. — 255 p. This is the story of Admiral Sir John Balchen, his life and career, and HMS Victory, the largest, finest ship-of-the-line in the Royal Navy at the time, which he commanded when both were lost, along with more than 1,000 crew, in an October storm in the English Channel in 1744. This is not the Victory of Trafalgar fame, however, but the First...
Pen and Sword, 2012. — 164 p. During the period from Sir Francis Drake to the 21st century the naval power of Great Britain rose from that of an obscure island to that of a world-wide empire. British shipping and seamen dominated the globe for four centuries and the ships that explored the world and those which guarded them represent a unique treasure-house of maritime history,...
Balfour Publications, 1974. — 104 p. Introduction on history of British Royal Navy warships’ names and origins of naval heraldry, descriptions of ships carrying the badges with coloured photographic illustrations of the badges, bibliography, index, navy blue boards.
Pen and Sword Books, 2016. — 262 p. For three hundred years or more the Royal Navy really did Rule the Waves, in the sense that during the numerous wars with our overseas enemies, British fleets and individual ships more often than not emerged victorious from combat.
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2022. — 272 p. The threat of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler’s surprise invasion of Russia in June 1941, succeeding prompted Churchill to decide to send vital military supplies to Britain’s new ally. The early sailings to Northern Russia via the Arctic Ocean between August 1941 and February 1942 were largely unopposed. But this changed dramatically during...
Leo Cooper, 1995. — 203 p. In the long history of the British Isles few years can stand in comparison with 1940 in terms of unrivalled gloom. The fiasco in Norway, the evacuation of the BEF from Dunkirk, the fall of France and the entry of Italy into the war were hardly offset by the success of the Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain and the failure of the Italian troops...
Pen and Sword, 2009. — 208 p. The authors luck finally ran out in August 1942 when Eridge was torpedoed by an Italian MTB. Under constant air attack, she was towed to Alexandria but was irreparable. Saddened by the loss of his ship but cheered by the Allies increasing superiority, Gregory-Smith returned to Britain having been awarded two DSOs and one DSC (a second followed at...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2013. — 352 p. The Seventh ship to bear the name, the Assault Ship and Commando Carrier HMS Fearless was first commissioned in 1965. Over the next 37 years she was seldom far from the actions in which British forces were engaged worldwide, be they in Aden, Malaysia and Borneo, Northern Ireland, the Cold War (Norway), South Rhodesia, Falklands, the Gulf,...
London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2005. — 223 p. This book adopts an innovative new approach to examine the role of maritime power and the utility of navies. It uses a number of case studies based upon key Royal Navy operations in the twentieth century to draw out enduring principles about maritime power and to examine the strengths and limitations of maritime forces as...
Manchester University Press, 2015. — 296 p. Naval forces from fifteen colonial territories fought for the British Empire during the Second World War, providing an important new lens for understanding imperial power and colonial relations on the eve of decolonisation. With sources from Britain, the Caribbean, Africa and Asia, this book examines the political, social and cultural...
I.B. Tauris, 2015. — 255 p. The British Empire, the largest empire in history, was fundamentally a maritime one. Britain's imperial power was inextricably tied to the strength of the Royal Navy - the ability to protect and extend Britain's political and economic interests overseas, and to provide the vital bonds that connected the metropole with the colonies. This book examines...
Missing Pages Books, 2014. — 200 p. Australia's first submarines, AE1 and AE2, entered Sydney Harbour in time to join the celebration of Empire Day 24 May 1914 after a voyage from Britain of 83 days, 60 of which were spent at sea. Australians were fascinated by their submarines and proud that their young navy was bravely at the forefront of such technology. Britain declared war...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 264 p. In a wartime Navy of giant carriers and battleships, tiny wooden subchasers did not command much attention. Yet these 110-foot warships, manned mostly by inexperienced reservists, performed vital chores for the fleet everywhere there was action in World War II. They led landing craft right up to the assault beaches, protected them from...
Pen and Sword, 2022. — 228 p. The story of the British Eastern Fleet, which operated in the Indian Ocean against Japan, has rarely been told. Although it was the largest fleet deployed by the Royal Navy prior to 1945 and played a vital part in the theater it was sent to protect, it has no place in the popular consciousness of the naval history of the Second World War. So...
Allen and Unwin, 2006. — 464 p. Bringing together scholars from all over the world, this detailed reference examines the navy's contribution to Australia's national development—from the initial exploration and colonization of the continent to the foundation and protection of a modern, sovereign state.
Allen and Unwin, 2002. — 383 p. The development of Australia's navy has been a vital factor in its history and evolution as a nation in the century since Federation. Australia has a maritime environment and its national interests stretch far beyond its coastline. This text examines the influences on the rise of Australian naval power and discusses current international and...
Pen and Sword Maritime Books, 2009. — 240 p. Between Drake's Revenge and the Polaris submarine, the most recent Revenge, are the glory years of the Royal Navy. Revenge was at the Armada, the Azores, Trafalgar and Jutland and with weapons capable of terrible destruction.The first Revenge commanded by Queen Elizabeth's favourite, Francis Drake, symbolised the boldness and flair...
Osprey Publishing, 2005. — 225 p. The battle of Trafalgar (1805) lasted just five hours, yet those short hours forever shattered Napoleon's dream of adding England to his list of conquests. This book, written by a number of respected authors, examines not only the battle but also the characters and motivation of the men that fought in it, including the great commanders Nelson and...
Henry Holt and Company, 2013. — 944 p. The most authoritative and intimate portrait written of Horatio Nelson. In this epic biography of British history's most celebrated naval commander, acclaimed historian John Sugden separates fact from myth to offer a powerful portrait of the military hero of Trafalgar. As was true of the Sugden's riveting account of Horatio Nelson's early...
Frontline Books, 2020. — 400 p. Long before recorded history, men, women and children had been seized by conquering tribes and nations to be employed or traded as slaves. Greeks, Romans, Vikings and Arabs were among the earliest of many peoples involved in the slave trade, and across Africa the buying and selling of slaves was widespread. There was, at the time, nothing unusual...
Frontline Books, 2020. — 400 p. Long before recorded history, men, women and children had been seized by conquering tribes and nations to be employed or traded as slaves. Greeks, Romans, Vikings and Arabs were among the earliest of many peoples involved in the slave trade, and across Africa the buying and selling of slaves was widespread. There was, at the time, nothing unusual...
Frontline Books, 2017. — 273 p. The career of Guernsey-born Admiral James Saumarez reads like an early history of the Royal Navy. His first battle was against the American revolutionaries in 1775, but thereafter his main opponents were the French and the Spanish, and the first fighting ship he commanded, the eight-gun galley Spitfire, was involved in forty-seven engagements...
Pen and Sword Books, 2017. — 272 p. The career of Guernsey-born Admiral James Saumarez reads like an early history of the Royal Navy. His first battle was against the American revolutionaries in 1775, but thereafter his main opponents were the French and the Spanish, and the first fighting ship he commanded, the eight-gun galley Spitfire, was involved in forty-seven engagements...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 400 p. In his groundbreaking work, In Defence of Naval Supremacy, Sumida presents a provocative and authoritative revisionist history of the origins, nature and consequences of the "Dreadnought Revolution" of 1906. Based on intensive and extensive archival research, the book strives to explain vital financial and technical matters which enable...
Pen and Sword, 2011. — 255 p. The Royal Naval Patrol Service, or Harry Tate's Navy as it was commonly known, was a unique service with its own rules and regulations. The officers and seamen were mainly ex-fishermen who had manned trawlers in Icelandic waters. The service was armed mostly with obsolete weaponry and suffered heavy casualties in the early stages of the war. The...
Pen and Sword Books, 2013. — 302 p. Between 1918 and 1986 the marine branch of the Royal Air Force provided rescue facilities, support and other services to this armed service. In its pre-1941 guise as the Air Sea Rescue service, the RAF had an inventory of over 200 motorboats, supported by float aircraft engaged in rescue, towing, refueling and servicing RAF aircraft. Amongst...
University of South Carolina Press, 1998. — 228 p. During the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Great Britain's Royal Navy faced foes that included, in addition to American forces, the navies of France, Spain, and the Netherlands. In this operational history of a period that proved to be a turning point for one of the world's great naval powers, David Syrett presents a...
Routledge, 2013. — 200 p. Examiner of the Royal Navy and the First Lord of the Admiralty during the Trafalgar Campaign, Sir Charles Middleton was responsible for creating vital links between the naval shore establishment, policy makers in Whitehall and commanders at sea.
Routledge, 2019. — 468 p. Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) made a significant contribution to British history by his work as a naval administrator, and he bequeathed to Magdalen College, Cambridge its greatest treasure – his library, a unique collection of 3,000 books and manuscripts, still preserved as he left it. There are 250 volumes of manuscripts and these NRS volumes published...
Routledge, 2015. — 198 p. Originally published in 1987. In this book we find songs reflecting every aspect of life in the twentieth-century Royal Navy, both upper and lower deck: war, ship’s routine, aviation, submarines, the antics of dockyard personnel, not to mention the matelot’s shore-going adventures, both amorous and bibulous. The compiler was well-known as a...
W. W. Norton and Company, 2012. — 354 p. An incomparable seaman, ferociously combative yet chivalrous, Admiral Edward Pellew might have served as the model for Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey. Edward Pellew, captain of the legendary Indefatigable, was quite simply the greatest British frigate captain in the age of sail. Left fatherless at age eight, with a penniless mother and five...
Yale University Press, 2020. — 415 p. A brilliant telling of the history of the common seaman in the age of sail, and his role in Britain's trade, exploration, and naval warfare. British maritime history in the age of sail is full of the deeds of officers like Nelson but has given little voice to plain, "illiterate" seamen. Now Stephen Taylor draws on published and unpublished...
Pen & Sword Paperbacks, 1998. — 362 p. This is an up-to-date reference book for nav al historians and indeed, for anyone interested in Britain''s maritime history and heritage. It lists every battle honour awarded to ships of the Royal Navy and gives an account of the action concerned. An invaluable and up-to-date reference book listing every battle honour awarded to ships of the...
Pen and Sword Books, 1999. — 228 p. In Malta Convoys David Thomas, the distinguished naval historian, gives a fascinating account of the vital battles fought by sea and air to ensure that essential supplies got through. He vividly describes the appalling cost in men and ships. Here is an important contribution to naval history in the Second World War and, at the same time, a...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2009. — 176 p. On 2 August 1708 Royal Navy's Captain Woodes Rogers set sail from Bristol with two ships, the Duke and Duchess, on an epic voyage of circumnavigation that was to make him famous. His mission was to attack, plunder and pillage Spanish ships wherever he could. And, as Graham Thomas shows in this tense and exciting narrative, after a series of...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2011. — 224 p. One hundred and fifty years ago the Royal Navy fought a daring campaign against ruthless pirates and won. On West African shores they killed 'The King of the Pirates', Bartholomew Roberts and captured his fleet. Scores of his men were executed by the Admiralty Court. On the Barbary Coast of North Africa pirates preyed on shipping in the...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2014. — 249 p. Sir Henry Morgan (1635-1688) was the most successful of all the pirates of the Caribbean, amassing a fortune by pillaging towns on the Spanish Main and eventually becoming governor of Jamaica. This lively biography charts his colourful career, unpicking fact from fiction and addressing questions that perplex historians to this day: to what...
Pan Macmillan, 2011. — 304 p. A vivid and compelling history of the Royal Navy during the First World War drawing on unique testimony from the archives of the Imperial War Museum. Based on gripping first-hand testimony from the archives of the Imperial War Museum, this book reveals what it was really like to serve in the Royal Navy during the First World War. It was a period of...
W.W. Norton and Company, 2014. — 324 p. For such a famous ship, surprisingly little has been known about HMS Beagle, from the details of her construction to her final resting place. While the "Darwin Voyage" has been celebrated in the history of exploration, her other two voyages - a prior survey of South America, including Tierra del Fuego and Cape Horn, and the first complete...
Routledge, 2006. — 232 p. This new book brings together Britain’s leading naval historians and analysts to present a comprehensive investigation of British naval thinking and what has made it so distinctive over the last three centuries, from the sailing ship era to the current day. This new volume describes in depth the beginnings of formalized thought about the conduct of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1984. — 267 p. Автор данной работы исследует историю развития и участия в боевых действиях британского ВМФ с 1945 года. Часть глав книги прогнозирует стратегическое, командное, техническое и корабельное развитие и совершенствование британского флота в будущем.
Penguin, 2003. — 499 p. For a decade, beginning in 1660, an ambitious young London civil servant kept an astonishingly candid account of his life during one of the most defining periods in British history. In Samuel Pepys, Claire Tomalin offers us a fully realized and richly nuanced portrait of this man, whose inadvertent masterpiece would establish him as the greatest diarist...
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007. — 521 p. Britannia's Palette looks at the lives of British artists who witnessed the naval war against the French Republic and Empire between 1793 and 1815. This band of brothers, through their artistic and entrepreneurial efforts, established the images of the war at sea that were central to the understanding their contemporaries had of...
Seafort Publishing, 2008. — 288 p. From his first dramatic initiatives at the Battle of St. Vincent in 1797 to his last battle at Trafalgar in 1805, Horatio Nelson was a force to be reckoned with and a hero to his countrymen. This illuminating study of the battles that played such an important role in Napoleon's defeat also takes a close look at the admiral's art of naval...
Caxton Editions , 2001. — 225 p. This book is a brilliant study of those naval battles of Horatio Nelson which played such an important role in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte. It is a significant contribution to the study of the development of strategy and naval tactics in the eighteenth century. His three great victories at the Nile, Copenhagen and Trafalgar are described in...
Pen and Sword, 2010. — 255 p. Revered naval theorist, Alfred Thayer Mahan, thought the Battle of Quiberon Bay (20 Nov 1759) was as significant as Nelson's victory in 1805, calling it 'the Trafalgar of this war [the Seven Years War]'. Arguably it was even more vital. Britain in 1759 was much less well-defended, with virtually no regular troops at home, and the threat of French...
Routledge, 2019. — 752 p. — (Navy Records Society Publications). This collection of high policy documents charts Britain’s difficulties in defending the Empire in a time of ’imperial overstretch’. The 20th century saw the rise of several great maritime and military powers and the relative decline of British strength, which created major defence problems for the British Empire....
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2006. — 255 p. George Brydges Rodney (1718-1792), later Admiral Lord Rodney, had anything but a conventional career. His promising early career, which left him marked for advancement, had run into the sand during the long years of peace after the Seven Years War (1756-1763). Indeed when Britain and France found themselves at war again in 1778 as a result...
Pen and Sword Books, 2011. — 208 p. Admiral Sir Martin Frobisher was one of the great sea dogs of Elizabethan England. He was a pirate and a privateer - he looted countless ships and was incarcerated by the Portuguese as a young man - and he aided Sir Francis Drake in one of his most daring voyages to attack the Spanish in the West Indies. But Frobisher was also a warrior who...
The History Press, 2015. — 208 p. Sheila Mills's story is a unique perspective of the Second World War. She is a clever, middle-class Norfolk girl with a yen for adventure and joins the WRNS in 1940 to escape the shackles of secretarial work in London, her unhappy childhood and her social-climbing mother. From a first posting in Scotland in 1940, she progresses through the...
Routledge, 2017. — 417 p. — (Navy Records Society Publications). The contents of this, the eighth of the Navy Records Society's Miscellany series, chronicles the activities and adventures of the Royal Navy, its officials, its officers and its men - both in British employment and out of it - over a period of some six hundred years. Ranging from the reign of Edward III to that of...
Maritime Books, 2014. — 168 p. With extensive coverage of battleships and battlecruisers like the magnificent Queen Elizabeth and the ill-fated Invincible, through cruisers, destroyers and submarines, this chronological pictorial collection goes on to show many of the smaller types and auxiliaries which formed the fleet which went to war in 1914.
Yale University Press, 2004. — 655 p. Legendary for his exploits in war and love, Admiral Horatio Nelson comes into clear view in this captivating new biography. This is a wonderful book, the best modern biography of Britain’s greatest admiral. A great biography and a poignant love story. A masterly biography, cool and sharp in long shots, intimately persuasive in close focus, at...
Australian War Memorial, 1961. — 642 p. This volume of the Australian Medical War History describes the work of the naval and air force medical services and of the women's services in the Australian Army Medical Corps. It also contains chapters on hospital ships, the Geneva Conventions and rehabilitation. The naval section describes the development of the naval medical service...
Osprey Publishing, 2012. — 285 p. Опираясь на сотни историй очевидцев и ветеранов конвоев и личных исследований в российских архивах военно-морского флота в Мурманске, автор воссоздаёт историю полярных конвоев. Hitler called Norway the “Zone of Destiny” for Nazi Germany because convoys from Churchill's Britain and Roosevelt's United States supplied Stalin's Soviet Russia with...
Endeavour Press, 2016. — 318 p. The officer corps of the Royal Navy during the long wars of 1793-1815 was one of the most successful military cadres in history, winning the vast majority of its battles, and often in the face of daunting odds. The most glamorous and high-profile group were undoubtedly the frigate captains — often portrayed as the cream of their profession....
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2014. — 304 p. Frigate Commander is based on the private journal of Lieutenant - and then Captain - Graham Moore, a naval officer serving during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Moore’s journal gives a unique and detailed account of what life was like for a serving naval officer. In particular it reveals the problems an officer had in managing the...
Seaforth Publishing, 2021. — 164 p. — ISBN 978-1-3990-1090-0. Азорские острова в Двух Мировых Войнах Atlantic Linchpin: The Azores in Two World Wars The Azores in the First World War Aviation in the Azores between the Wars The Azores and the Battle of the Atlantic, 1940–1945 The Three Airfields in the Immediate Post-War Years Appendices Roster of Personnel – 1st USMC Aeronautic...
Endeavour Press, 2016. — 400 p. Traces the life and career of the British naval hero, describes his major accomplishments, and assesses his influence on the British Navy. The leadership style of Nelson is really something that all can learn from: world leaders or captains of industry. Being compassionate for the right reasons, but absolutely ruthless in insisting upon the best...
Pen and Sword, 2003. — 254 p. Horatio Nelson was the greatest naval commander of his age. In this masterly analysis of his fighting career, the acclaimed naval historian Oliver Warner examines every battle in which he participated, but concentrates on the three in which his command as an admiral was crucial. The first was the Battle of the Nile in which the bulk of Napoleon's...
Pen and Sword, 2003. — 254 p. Horatio Nelson was the greatest naval commander of his age. In this masterly analysis of his fighting career, the acclaimed naval historian Oliver Warner examines every battle in which he participated, but concentrates on the three in which his command as an admiral was crucial. The first was the Battle of the Nile in which the bulk of Napoleon's...
Pen and Sword Military, 2008. — 238 p. On April 23, 1918 a force drawn from the Royal Navy and Royal Marines launched one of the most daring raids in naval history. The aim was to block the Zeebrugge Canal, thereby denying U-boat access, although this meant assaulting a powerfully fortified German naval base.
Seaforth Publishing, 2019. — 317 p. This scholarly study of the Royal Navy’s WWII light cruisers presents extensive design, performance, and engagement analysis of each ship. When the Second World War began, the ten British ‘Town’ class cruisers were the most modern vessels of their type in the Royal Navy. Primarily designed for the defense of trade, they played decisive roles...
Praeger, 2005. — 216 p. In November of 1940, the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer attacked British Convoy HX-84. The merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay, a converted passenger liner that was the convoy's only escort—armed only with antique 6-inch guns—charged the Nazi raider. While the Jervis Bay did not stand a chance of surviving the battle, her crew's fatalistic bravery...
Naval War College Press, 1983. — 249 p. — (Observations of the British Home Fleet from the Diary, Reports, and Letters of Joseph H. Wellings, Assistant U.S. Naval Attache, London, 1940-1941). This Memoirs and papers of U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Joseph H. Wellings (1903-1988), who served in London during 1940-1941 as Assistant U.S. Naval Attache. This large collection consists of...
Routledge, 1988. — 455 p. Actions against the Spanish Armada and campaigns in the Netherlands left the Queen's coffers empty. For this reason proposals to capture the Spanish treasure fleet were given royal support. The treasure fleet homeward bound from the Americas would be intercepted in the Azores. A diversion at Santander to damage the Spanish fleet would prevent...
Time-Life Books, 1978. — 190 p. This volume in The Seafarers recounts the golden age of the Royal Navy in the half-century or so up to and including the Battle of Trafalgar (1805). For anyone interested in naval history from the early 1700's until the early 1800's, including Trafalgar, this is the book to read. Mostly on the Royal Navy and the French Navy, it covers...
Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2005. — 525 p. Nelson - The New Letters, edited by Colin White, presents around 500 of the most important letters uncovered during the course of the epic Nelson Letters Project, a five year search of archives throughout the world. Dating from 1777 and including the earliest extant Nelson letter, this collection shows us both Nelson the officer and...
The History Press, 2013. — 289 p. There are few figures in British history more famous and more influential than Vice-Admiral Horaio, Lord Nelson, KB. This book offers a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the Nelson story. It is complemented by a gazetteer and chronology, together with over 100 illustrations and eight pages of colour plates.
Boydell Press, 2004. — 257 p. The Royal Navy, prominent in building Britain's maritime empire in the eighteenth century, also had a significant impact on politics, public finance and the administrative and bureaucratic development of the British state throughout the century. The Navy was the most expensive branch of the state and its effective funding and maintenance was a problem...
Cassell, 1979. — 186 p. Examines how, in the face of great maritime losses, Captain Gilbert Roberts was asked by Winston Churchill to set up a tactical Anti-U-Boat training school in Liverpool, and tells the story of the man, called from a desk job, to finally being honored by many countries before retiring after 50 years service. Roberts revolutionized anti-submarine warfare...
Atlantic Books, 2014. — 396 p. — ISBN: 0857895702. — ISBN13: 9780857895707. Between 1794 and 1815 the Royal Navy repeatedly crushed her enemies at sea in a period of military dominance that equals any in history. When Napoleon eventually died in exile, the Lords of the Admiralty ordered that the original dispatches from seven major fleet battles - The Glorious First of June...
Atlantic Books, 2014. — 396 p. Between 1794 and 1815 the Royal Navy repeatedly crushed her enemies at sea in a period of military dominance that equals any in history. When Napoleon eventually died in exile, the Lords of the Admiralty ordered that the original dispatches from seven major fleet battles - The Glorious First of June (1794), St Vincent (1797), Camperdown (1797),...
The History Press, 2014. — 192 p. On 10 December 1941, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Prince of Wales was sunk by Japanese bombers in the South China Sea. Amongst the several hundred men who went down with her was her Captain, John Leach, who had fought against frightful odds and to the very end made the best of an impossible situation with courage and calmness. He embodied the...
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2014. — 720 p. The longest story of British Royal Navy is nothing less than the story of Britain, our culture and our empire. Much more than a parade of admirals and their battles, this is the story of how an insignificant island nation conquered the world's oceans to become its greatest trading empire. Yet, as Ben Wilson shows, there was nothing...
Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing, 2005. — 371 p. At the zenith of its power in 1809 the Royal Navy comprised one half of all the warships in the world, the first (and last) time any navy achieved this dominance. Given its importance, it is not surprising that much attention has been lavished on this subject, but among the numerous books on the design, development and technical...
Seaforth Publishing, 2007. — 400 р. — ISBN: 978-1844157006. The new Hanoverian dynasty that came to power with the accession of George I in 1714 inherited the largest navy in the world. In the course of the century, this force would see a vast amount of action against nearly every major navy, reaching a pinnacle of success in the Seven Years War only to taste defeat in the...
Whittles Publishing, 2012. — 193 p. The previously unpublished memoirs of a British Naval Captain and wartime Submariner (served in Royal Navy from 1928 to 1962), whose exploits included the stalking and sinking of a Japanese submarines.
Sapere Books, 2021. — 252 p. An engrossing biography of one of the most important naval leaders of the Second World War. Perfect for people who enjoy biographies of Chester W. Nimitz, Isoroku Yamamoto or other legendary World War Two admirals. After serving in the Boer War and World War One with distinction, Andrew Browne Cunningham, popularly known as ABC, served as...
Sapere Books, 2022. — 541 p. World War II in the Pacific is often seen as a conflict between American and Japanese forces, with the importance of the British Pacific and East Indies Fleets often overlooked by all. Yet, by VJ-day they had more than 600 ships and nearly a quarter of a million men — British, Australian, New Zealanders, Indians, Canadians and South Africans....
Frontline Books, 2016. — 304 p. Naval VCs have been won in places as far apart in time and distance as the Baltic in 1854 and Japan in 1945, in the trenches from the Crimea to the Western Front, in harbours from Dar es Salaam to Zeebrugge, from the Barents to the Java Sea, from New Zealand to the North Atlantic, and from China to the Channel. They have been won in battleships...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 290 p. This book demonstrates the importance of the presence of the Royal Navy in South America. Historically there have been no treaty obligations and few strategic considerations in the region, yet it is frequently referred to as forming part of Britain’s ‘unofficial empire’. The role of the Navy in supporting foreign relations and promoting...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2008. — 224 p. A distinguished British maritime writer, Woodman offers a compelling reassessment of the British and German planning that led to the first and one of the most famous naval battles of World War II. The dramatic sea fight between the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and the British cruisers Exeter, Ajax, and Achilles off the coast of...
Pen and Sword, 2011. — 800 p. For the British, the Battle of the Atlantic was a fight for survival. They depended on the safe transit of hundreds of convoys of merchant ships laden with food, raw materials and munitions from America to feed the country and to keep the war effort going, and they had to export manufactured goods to pay for it all. So Britain's merchant navy, a...
Robinson Publishing, 2002. — 416 p. Extraordinary maritime heroes of the late 18th and early 19th centuries stride across these pages - some, like Warren, Pellew, Cochrane and Collingwood, are still renowned; others are almost unknown today, yet their brilliant exploits deserve to be pulled from under the long shadow of the greatest naval figure of all, Horatio Nelson. The Royal...
Robinson Publishing, 2002. — 416 p. Extraordinary maritime heroes of the late 18th and early 19th centuries stride across these pages - some, like Warren, Pellew, Cochrane and Collingwood, are still renowned; others are almost unknown today, yet their brilliant exploits deserve to be pulled from under the long shadow of the greatest naval figure of all, Horatio Nelson. The...
Maritime Books, 1986. — 160 p. Naval mine clearance was originally done by whatever type of vessel could easily be adapted to the task, paddle steamers proving particularly suited due to their shallow draught. In both World Wars naval trawlers were used, as they were naturally suitable for wire sweeping. In World War II this task was given to smaller trawlers of about 300 tons,...
Pen and Sword, 2009. — 252 p. Above the Waves is the history of the first century of British Naval aviation, with personal accounts adding colour to the achievements both in technology, such as angled flight decks, mirror deck landing systems, helicopter assault and vertical take-off, and in operations, including the sinking of the Konigsberg and the daring attack on the Italian...
The History Press, 2006. — 321 p. Telling the story of how the Royal Navy, the largest in the world in 1914, adapted to the demands of war, this book chronicles the leaders and the events from 1914 to 1918. It describes how many ships that could no longer fight were thrown out, created the world's most modern battleship, and recognized the importance of submarines and aviation....
The History Press, 2005. — 288 p. The service had to learn fast. It soon became clear that the Germans would not provide an opportunity for a major battleship-to-battleship fleet action along the lines of Jutland, but that submarine warfare and surface raiders were to be just as effective at undermining the British war effort. The Royal Navy was expected to be active in the...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2015. — 304 p. On the declaration of war in 1939, the British Admiralty signaled all warships and naval bases: Total Germany. It was fortunate that of Germany’s three armed services, the Kriegsmarine, under Grosser-admiral Erich Raeder, was the least well prepared. They had not expected to fight all-out war for another two to three years. While Admiral Karl...
Seaforth Publishing, 2016. — 192 p. During World War II navies developed low visibility, horizontal and vertical surface camouflage for their ships. The camouflage served to reduce the visibility of the ships by blending them in with the sea. It also made the identity of the ship confusing by applying more obtrusive patterns. In this the third volume by maritime artist Malcolm...
Sea Power Centre, 2012. — 245 p. This large collection of the historical articles, from the sixth King-Hall Naval history conference (2009), addresses various aspects of Commonwealth naval cooperation during the 20th century. Tribal Class Destroyers in Commonwealth Service. The Dominion Yachtsman Scheme 1940-1945. The British Pacific Fleet in 1945. The South African Navy and...
Санкт-Петербург: Типография Н. Греча, 1828. — 45 с. В предлагаемой здесь книге В. Н. Берх даёт критический разбор сочинений капитана английского флота Брентона и Вильяма Джемса, издавших почти одновременно «Исторію Англійскаго Флота» (в 1820 г. и в 1824 г. соответственно). Берх упрекает английских сочинителей в необъективности: «Хотя писатели сіи изложили главнѣйшія морскія...
Москва: Военная книга, 2005. — 138 с. Представляемая читателю монография открывает новый цикл серии «Крейсера Британии» и посвящена старейшим британским легким крейсерам, участвовавшим во Второй мировой войне. Крейсера типа С, строившиеся еще в период Великой войны, находились в составе Королевского флота Великобритании в течение трех десятилетий. В этой работе рассказывается о...
Москва: Военная книга, 2006. — 100 с. — ISBN: 5-902863-07-4. Во второй части монографии продолжен рассказ о старейших британских легких крейсерах периода Второй мировой войны, построенных почти за два десятилетия до ее начала по военным программам времен Первой мировой войны. Монография предназначена для моделистов-корабелов и всех, кто интересуется военно-морской историей, она...
Издание второе, исправленное и дополненное. — Владивосток: Рюрикъ, 1997. — 56 с. — (Боевые корабли мира). До 1930 года Британским Содружеством было построено 13 вашингтонских крейсеров так называемого типа County (Графства), названных так из-за того, что они носили названия английских и шотландских графств (это не относится к кораблям Австралии). Поэтому принадлежащие к трем...
Владивосток: Рюрикъ, 1999. — 60 с. — (Боевые корабли мира). Спустя 17 месяцев после закладки первого корабля серии "Kent" в Портсмуте был заложен головной крейсер следующей серии, постройка которой предусматривалась кораблестроительной программой 1925-26 гг. Однако началу строительства предшествовал пересмотр проектных решений, к чему англичан побудили недостатки первоначального...
Владивосток: Рюрикъ, 2003. — 90 с. — (Боевые корабли мира). — ISBN: 5-7042-1157-7. Продолжая начатый несколько лет назад рассказ о тяжелых крейсерах Великобритании, мы предлагаем читателю новую монографию о крейсерах типа York. Создавая эти корабли, англичане рассчитывали, как и прежде, задавать тон в международной военно-морской политике, однако «йорки», последние британские...
Чуланчик на Верфи, 2017. — 287 с. — (Перевод с английского А.А. Баитова). Почти каждый любитель судомоделист подсознательно вынашивает идею построить трехдечник. Исторические ассоциации с этими старыми кораблями, их достоинство и присущая им красота делают их не только интересными, но и затрагивающими сердца всех англичан. Если вспомнить, что линейный корабль первого ранга в...
Пер. с англ. А. Г. Больных Примечания в конце текста А. Мятишкин: Пол Лунд служил на корабле охранения конвоя PQ- 17. В книге описывается судьба конвоя со стороны матросов и младших офицеров..
Пер. с англ. А. Г. Больных Примечания в конце текста А. Мятишкин: Пол Лунд служил на корабле охранения конвоя PQ- 17. В книге описывается судьба конвоя со стороны матросов и младших офицеров..
СПб.: Галея Принт, 2012. — 140 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8172-0132-1. История эволюции класса боевых кораблей британского флота, появившегося в конце XIX столетия и получившего имя "destroyer" - в переводе с английского "истребитель"; в отечественном флоте принят термин "эскадренный миноносец". В первой части книги рассматривается период, ограниченный появлением первых турбинных...
СПб.: Галея Принт, 2012. — 140 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8172-0132-1. История эволюции класса боевых кораблей британского флота, появившегося в конце XIX столетия и получившего имя "destroyer" - в переводе с английского "истребитель"; в отечественном флоте принят термин "эскадренный миноносец". В первой части книги рассматривается период, ограниченный появлением первых турбинных...
СПб.: Галея Принт, — 2012. — 196 с. — ISBN: 978-5-81720-118-5. История эволюции класса боевых кораблей британского флота, появившегося в конце XIX столетия и получившего имя "destroyer" - в переводе с английского "истребитель"; в отечественном флоте принят термин "эскадренный миноносец". Во второй части книги рассматривается период с 1901 по 1914 год.
СПб.: Галея Принт, — 2012. — 196 с. — ISBN: 978-5-81720-118-5. История эволюции класса боевых кораблей британского флота, появившегося в конце XIX столетия и получившего имя "destroyer" - в переводе с английского "истребитель"; в отечественном флоте принят термин "эскадренный миноносец". Во второй части книги рассматривается период с 1901 по 1914 год.
СПб.: Галея Принт, 2013. — 168 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8172-0120-8. История эволюции класса боевых кораблей британского флота, появившегося в конце XIX столетия и получившего имя «destroyer» — в переводе с английского «истребитель»; в отечественном флоте принят термин «эскадренный миноносец». В третьей части книги рассматривается период Первой мировой войны; в главе 28 использованы...
СПб.: Галея Принт, 2013. — 168 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8172-0120-8. История эволюции класса боевых кораблей британского флота, появившегося в конце XIX столетия и получившего имя «destroyer» — в переводе с английского «истребитель»; в отечественном флоте принят термин «эскадренный миноносец». В третьей части книги рассматривается период Первой мировой войны; в главе 28 использованы...
М.: Эксмо, Яуза, 2020. — 130 с. — (Война на море). — ISBN: 978-5-04-110262-3 Эти корабли стали не только фактически первыми британскими легкими крейсерами, но самыми известными представителями данного класса кораблей в Королевском флоте Первой мировой войны. Восемь легких крейсеров типа «Аретьюза» — Arethusa, «Аурора» (Aurora), «Галатея» (Galatea), «Инконстант» (Inconstant),...
М.: Эксмо, Яуза, 2014. — 245 с. — (Война на море). — ISBN: 978-5-699-75584-4
Эти легкие крейсера стали венцом развития данного класса кораблей в британских ВМС и гордостью Королевского флота. Самые брони-рованные и лучше всех вооруженные, обладающие феноменальной артиллерийской мощью и совершенной системой управления огнем, крейсера типа «Таун» могли не опасаться встречи даже с...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2004. — 140 с. Эта книга – воспоминания коммандера британских ВМС Д. А. Райнера, который в течение пяти лет командовал различными кораблями эскорта, пройдя путь от командира крошечного траулера до командира группы современных эскортных кораблей. Он рассказывает о людях, служивших в Британском флоте на небольших кораблях, и о морских сражениях Второй мировой...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2005. — 368 с. Леонард К. Рейнолдс рассказывает о действиях малых британских кораблей против немцев и итальянцев во Второй мировой войне, о множестве смертельно опасных и забавных приключений, непосредственным участником которых он был. Славная канонерка 658, на которой служил Рейнолдс, участвовала в боевых операциях на Сицилии и Сардинии в Средиземноморье и...
Conway Maritime Press, 2012. — 123 с.: илл. Для русскоязычного читателя под великими кораблями не обязательно понимаются именно английские корабли времен правления Карла II. Поэтому было предложено название «Плавучие крепости», вариант не бесспорный, и который также может показаться неочевидным для некоторых читателей. Также намеренно не переводился Глоссарий морских терминов в...
Санкт-Петербург: Типография Э. Праца, — 587 с. В раздаче предлагается перевод на русский язык справочно-энциклопедического труда контр-адмирала королевского британского флота Г. Экинса, посвященный сражениям и походам, в которых принимали участие военные суда британского флота за период с 1690 по 1827 год. Издание разделено на две части, первая посвящена морским сражениям, вторая,...
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