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Fireship

Author : Peter Kirsch
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1783469579
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Fireship written by Peter Kirsch and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fireship was the guided missile of the sailing era. Packed with incendiary (and sometimes explosive) material, it was aimed at its highly inflammable wooden target by volunteers who bailed out into a boat at the last moment. It often missed, but the panic it invariably caused among crews who generally could not swim and had no method of safely abandoning ship did the job for it—the most famous example being the attack off Gravelines in 1588 which led to the rout of the Spanish Armada.Although it was a tactic used in antiquity, its successful revival in the Armada campaign led to the adoption of the fireship as an integral part of the fleet. During the seventeenth century increasingly sophisticated 'fireworks' were designed into purpose-built ships, and an advance doctrine was worked out for their employment. Fireship reveals the full impact of the weapon on naval history, looks at the technology and analyses the reasons for its decline.This is the first history of a potent, much used but little understood weapon.

The Fireship

Author : C. Northcote Parkinson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1590136128
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Fireship written by C. Northcote Parkinson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having obtained a position on the Glatton, Richard Delancey is soon to see action in the Battle of Camperdown. But the Nore and Spithead mutinies intervene to upset the course of his career. He devises an original legal defense in the court martial of a fellow officer accused of murder, and acquits himself well, but falls afoul of the naval establishment and is passed over in the general promotion of all in his rank.

A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature

Author : Gordon Williams
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0485113937
Total Pages : 1650 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (851 download)

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Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature by : Gordon Williams

Download or read book A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature written by Gordon Williams and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-09-13 with total page 1650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws especially on the more immediate literary modes: the theatre, broadside ballads, newsbooks and pamphlets. The aim is to assist the reader of Shakespearean and Stuart literature to identify metaphors and elucidate meanings; and more broadly, to chart, through illustrative quotation, shifting and recurrent linguistic patterns. Linguistic habit is closely bound up with the ideas and assumptions of a period, and the figurative language of sexuality across this period is highly illuminating of socio-cultural change as well as linguistic development. Thus the entries offer as much to those concerned with social history and the history of ideas as to the reader of Shakespeare or Dryden.

Spanish Warships in the Age of Sail, 1700–1860

Author : Rif Winfield
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1526790815
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Spanish Warships in the Age of Sail, 1700–1860 written by Rif Winfield and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the latest contribution to a unique series in a common format documenting in great detail the warships of the major naval powers during the age of sail. To date, four volumes have covered the British Navy, two have been devoted to the French Navy and one each to the Dutch and Russian Navies. This volume on the Spanish Navy, for much of its history the third largest in the world, fills the final gap in the ranks of the major maritime powers. This book is the first comprehensive listing of these ships in English and covers the development of all the naval vessels owned or deployed by Spain during the period of the Bourbon monarchy from 1700 to 1860 (including the period of French control during the Napoleonic Wars), but it also sets the scene for that period by summarizing the origins of Spanish naval development under the preceding Habsburg regime. As with previous volumes in the series, the main chapters list all the naval vessels from 1700 onwards (including those 16th century ships which survived into the new regime in 1700) by type, with the first chapters listing the ships of the line (navíos in Spanish terminology) and frigates in descending order of firepower, and subsequent chapters covering minor and ancillary vessels. Where available, a brief service history of each individual ship is given. A comprehensive introductory section includes a group of background essays designed to provide the reader with a deep understanding of how Spanish naval forces operated, and the context within which they were organized. Certain to become the standard English-language reference work, its publication is of the utmost importance to every naval historian and general reader interested in the navies of the sailing era.

Fireship

Author : Joan D. Vinge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fireship written by Joan D. Vinge and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Learn what it's like to share your mind and body with a super-computer, then discover the joys and sorrows of parenthood on an alien world."--Page 2 of cover

British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail

Author : David Hepper
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1399031058
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail written by David Hepper and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-30 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This significant new reference book provides a complete list of the ships of the Royal Navy which were lost at sea in the age of sail. Arranged in chronological order, it includes outline details of each vessel lost and the circumstances of her loss. 1649 is the start date, which coincides with the execution of Charles I and that time when the Royal Navy entered a new phase as an instrument of state: the launch of the steam-powered and iron-hulled Warrior in 1860 effectively marks the end of the great era of the wooden-hulled sailing warship. Life at sea in the age of sail was a hazardous pursuit, and there were many reasons for a ship being lost. A correspondent to the Nautical Magazine in 1841 detailed some fifty reasons and causes, from being short of crew, abandonment without sufficient cause, the poor condition of a ship, incorrectness of charts, poor dead-reckoning as well as less obvious reasons such as the presence of captains wives and other women. Navigational error, particularly before the chronometer allowed for the accurate calculation of longitude, was a common reason, while poor weather in the form of fog or gales was an obvious peril. So many ships suffered the melancholy fate of lonely disappearance overwhelmed by storm and sea, and witnessed by none. Collisions and fire feature regularly as does, of course, loss to the enemy. Each entry includes details of the ship, its name and type, tonnage and dimensions, origin and place of build, the circumstances of the loss, the date and a list of the main references used. All this material is presented here in a single and highly accessible volume, and represents a major milestone both in naval research and publishing; it offers too a fund of fascinating and compelling stories of maritime misadventure. Praise for the author's previous work: This volume is an amazing encyclopaedic, catalogue of British warships lost between 1920 and 1982 It is strongly recommended to historians, authors, researchers and all those with an interest in the history of the Royal Navy and the Second World War. -Scuttlebut Magazine

Calendar of State Papers

Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Calendar of State Papers written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles II

Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles II written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Romance of Piracy

Author : Edward Keble Chatterton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Romance of Piracy written by Edward Keble Chatterton and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author :
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Naval Commissioners from 12 Charles II. to 1 George III., 1660-1760

Author : Sir George Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Naval Commissioners from 12 Charles II. to 1 George III., 1660-1760 written by Sir George Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Publications of the Navy Records Society

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Publications of the Navy Records Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles II.

Author : Mary Anne Everett Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles II. written by Mary Anne Everett Green and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reports

Author : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reports written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Manuscripts of the Earl of Dartmouth

Author : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book The Manuscripts of the Earl of Dartmouth written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Report

Author : Großbritannien Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Report written by Großbritannien Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts

Author : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: