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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.
Book Synopsis The Manuscripts of the House of Lords: 1678-1688 (Historical Manuscripts Commission. Reports, llth, appendix pt.2) by : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Download or read book The Manuscripts of the House of Lords: 1678-1688 (Historical Manuscripts Commission. Reports, llth, appendix pt.2) written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Manuscripts of the House of Lords by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
Download or read book The Manuscripts of the House of Lords written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Illustrated Companion to Nelson's Navy by : Nicholas Blake
Download or read book The Illustrated Companion to Nelson's Navy written by Nicholas Blake and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fictional exploits of sailors in the Royal Navy have thrilled readers around the world. This title covers various aspects of the Royal Navy including the workings of the admiralty, the designs and building of ships, life on board, food and drink, discipline, seamanship, merchant fleets, and opposing navies.
Book Synopsis Spanish Warships in the Age of Sail, 1700–1860 by : Rif Winfield
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.
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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:
Book Synopsis The Royal Navy by : Sir William Laird Clowes
Download or read book The Royal Navy written by Sir William Laird Clowes and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life of Sir John Leake by : Stephen Martin Leake
Download or read book The Life of Sir John Leake written by Stephen Martin Leake and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Europe from the commencement of the French revolution ... to the restoration of the Bourbons by : sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.)
Download or read book History of Europe from the commencement of the French revolution ... to the restoration of the Bourbons written by sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Fireship by : C. Northcote Parkinson
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.
Book Synopsis History of Europe, from the Commencement of the French Revolution, in 1789, to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815 by : Sir Archibald Alison
Download or read book History of Europe, from the Commencement of the French Revolution, in 1789, to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815 written by Sir Archibald Alison and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Journal of the Royal United Service Institution by : Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain)
Download or read book Journal of the Royal United Service Institution written by Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in M.DCC.LXXXIX. to the Restoration of the Bourbons in M.DCCC.XV. by : Sir Archibald Alison
Download or read book History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in M.DCC.LXXXIX. to the Restoration of the Bourbons in M.DCCC.XV. written by Sir Archibald Alison and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall Yard by :
Download or read book Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall Yard written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 by : Julian Stafford Corbett
Download or read book Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 written by Julian Stafford Corbett and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Londons of the British Fleet by : Edward Fraser
Download or read book The Londons of the British Fleet written by Edward Fraser and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The King's Ships by : Halton Stirling Lecky
Download or read book The King's Ships written by Halton Stirling Lecky and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
