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Book Synopsis The British Sailor of the First World War by : Quintin Colville
Download or read book The British Sailor of the First World War written by Quintin Colville and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1914 Great Britain had the largest and most powerful navy the world had ever seen – a well-known fact, but what of the everyday experience of those who served in her? This fully illustrated book looks at the British sailor's life during the First World War, from the Falkland Islands to the East African coast to the North Sea. Meals in the stokers' mess and the admiral's cabin; the claustrophobic terrors of the engine room or submarine; the long separations from loved ones that were the shared experience of all ranks; the perils faced by Royal Naval Air Service pilots in the air; the possessions treasured by sailors while at sea – drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished materials from the National Maritime Museum archives, this is an authoritative and vivid account of lives lived in quite extraordinary circumstances.
Book Synopsis The British Navy in the Caribbean by : John D. Grainger
Download or read book The British Navy in the Caribbean written by John D. Grainger and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 growth of the British slave trade. It goes on to discuss the late seventeenth century and eighteenth century conflicts and wars with the Dutch, Spanish and French and the War of American Independence, analyses the effect of the abolition of the slave trade and explores the British dominance which prevailed throughout much of the nineteenth century. The book concludes by examining how in the twentieth century the British navy withdrew almost entirely from the Caribbean, tacitly ceding control to the United States. Throughout the book relates developments in the Caribbean to developments in Britain and in the British navy more widely. John D. Grainger is the author of numerous books for a variety of publishers, including eight previously published books for Boydell and Brewer, including The British Navy in the Baltic, Dictionary of British Naval Battles and The First Pacific War: Britain and Russia, 1854-56.
Book Synopsis The British Sailor of the Second World War by : Angus Konstam
Download or read book The British Sailor of the Second World War written by Angus Konstam and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the dramatic story of how the Royal Navy transformed ordinary citizens into first-rate sailors and navy personnel during the Second World War. It covers how they were recruited and trained and how they endured life at sea in hostile waters, protecting convoys in the Mediterranean, hunting submarines in the Atlantic, and standing up to relentless air attacks in the Pacific. Told through vivid first-hand accounts of life onboard, it reveals what it was like to be a sailor navigating, patrolling, and fighting in the largest theatre of the war – the vast oceans.
Download or read book The British Sailor written by and published by . This book was released on 1790* with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis War, Nationalism, and the British Sailor, 1750-1850 by : I. Land
Download or read book War, Nationalism, and the British Sailor, 1750-1850 written by I. Land and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to systematically integrate 'Jack Tar,' the common seaman, into the cultural history of modern Britain, treating him not as an occasional visitor from the ocean, but as an important part of national life.
Download or read book Jack Tar written by John Laffin and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1969 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The British Sailor by : Peter Kemp Kemp
Download or read book The British Sailor written by Peter Kemp Kemp and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The British Sailor by : Richard Garrett
Download or read book The British Sailor written by Richard Garrett and published by Hodder Wayland. This book was released on 1974 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jackspeak written by Rick Jolly and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jackspeak is a comprehensive reference guide to the humorous and colourful slang of the Senior Service, explaining in layman's termsthe otherwise cryptic everyday language of the Royal Navy, the Royal Marines and the Fleet Air Arm. Featuring more than 4,000 alphabetical entries, it was compiled by an ex-RM surgeon who spent 24 years in theservice. With useful cross-references and examples of common usagethroughout, along with excellent illustrations by Tugg, the cartoonistfrom service newspaper Navy News, it is the essential book forcurrent and ex-Navy personnel and their families, or anyone interested in the modern armed forces. Conway is proud to present a revised and updated edition of this classic volume, which is already acknowledged as the standard reference for every Jack, Jenny and Royal joining the Andrew, or for any civvy who wants a real insight into the unique culture of the Navy.
Book Synopsis The British Sailor by : Kenneth Poolman
Download or read book The British Sailor written by Kenneth Poolman and published by . This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Sailor's Word-book by : William Henry Smyth
Download or read book The Sailor's Word-book written by William Henry Smyth and published by London : Blackie and son. This book was released on 1867 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The British Sailor's Glory; or English valour display'd. Songs by : BRITISH SAILOR.
Download or read book The British Sailor's Glory; or English valour display'd. Songs written by BRITISH SAILOR. and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Evil Necessity by : Denver Brunsman
Download or read book The Evil Necessity written by Denver Brunsman and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fundamental component of Britain’s early success, naval impressment not only kept the Royal Navy afloat—it helped to make an empire. In total numbers, impressed seamen were second only to enslaved Africans as the largest group of forced laborers in the eighteenth century. In The Evil Necessity, Denver Brunsman describes in vivid detail the experience of impressment for Atlantic seafarers and their families. Brunsman reveals how forced service robbed approximately 250,000 mariners of their livelihoods, and, not infrequently, their lives, while also devastating Atlantic seaport communities and the loved ones who were left behind. Press gangs, consisting of a navy officer backed by sailors and occasionally local toughs, often used violence or the threat of violence to supply the skilled manpower necessary to establish and maintain British naval supremacy. Moreover, impressments helped to unite Britain and its Atlantic coastal territories in a common system of maritime defense unmatched by any other European empire. Drawing on ships’ logs, merchants’ papers, personal letters and diaries, as well as engravings, political texts, and sea ballads, Brunsman shows how ultimately the controversy over impressment contributed to the American Revolution and served as a leading cause of the War of 1812. Early American HistoriesWinner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Work of Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century Studies
Book Synopsis Soldier, Sailor, Beggarman, Thief by : Clive Emsley
Download or read book Soldier, Sailor, Beggarman, Thief written by Clive Emsley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first serious investigation of criminal offending by members of the British armed forces both during and immediately after the two world wars of the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis The British Navy Book by : Cyril Field
Download or read book The British Navy Book written by Cyril Field and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Specimen of Naked Truth, from a British Sailor, by : Edward Vernon
Download or read book A Specimen of Naked Truth, from a British Sailor, written by Edward Vernon and published by . This book was released on 1746 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis How to Survive in the Georgian Navy by : Bruno Pappalardo
Download or read book How to Survive in the Georgian Navy written by Bruno Pappalardo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Navy within its wider historical, national, organisational and military context, and reveals exactly what it took to survive a life in its service. It looks at how a seaman could join the Royal Navy, including the notorious 'press gangs'; what was meant by 'learning the ropes'; and the severe punishments that could be levied for even minor misdemeanours as a result of the Articles of War. Military tactics, including manning the guns and tactics for fending off pirates are also revealed, as is the problem of maintaining a healthy diet at sea – and the steps that sailors themselves could take to avoid the dreaded scurvy. Covering other fascinating topics as wide-ranging as exploration, mutiny, storms, shipwrecks, and women on board ships, this 'Sailor's Guide' explores the lives of the Navy's officers and sailors, using extracts from contemporary documents and writings to reconstruct their experiences in vivid detail.
