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Author : Van Der Voort
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004623396
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Pen and the Quarter-Deck written by Van Der Voort and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1972-12 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Petrus Johannes van der Voort
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (164 download)
Download or read book The Pen and the Quarter-deck written by Petrus Johannes van der Voort and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. A. Cavell
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 1843837196
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Midshipmen and Quarterdeck Boys in the British Navy, 1771-1831 written by S. A. Cavell and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating study of midshipmen and other "young gentlemen", outlining their social background, career paths and what life was like for them. Officer recruits - "young gentlemen" - entered the Royal Navy with dreams of fame, fortune and glory, but many found promotion difficult, with a large number unable to progress beyond lieutenant. Recent scholarship has argued thatduring the wars of 1793-1815 there was greater social diversity among naval officers, with promotion increasingly related to professional competence. This book, based on extensive original research, examines the social backgroundof around 4,000 "young gentlemen" a term which includes midshipmen and various other categories, including captains' servants, volunteers and masters' mates. It concludes that in fact high birth became an increasingly important factor in the selection of officer candidates, and that as the Admiralty grip on the appointment and management of officer aspirants increased, especially after 1815, aristocratic presence in the ranks of young officers increased significantly as a result of deliberate Admiralty policy. The book also discusses the assertion that the increase in elite sons led to a dramatic increase in cases of indiscipline and insubordination, concluding that although therewas a marked increase in courts martial for insubordination during and after the French Wars there is no evidence that such cases related more to the elites than to young aspirants in general". The book includes many case study examples of midshipmen and other "young gentlemen", illustrating what life was like for them and how they themselves viewed their situation. S.A. CAVELL is a graduate of the Queensland University of Technology and Louisiana State University and completed her doctorate at the University of Exeter.
Author : Charles J. R. Cook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Quarter Deck written by Charles J. R. Cook and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Whychcotte
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Whychotte of St. John's; Or, The Court, the Camp, the Quarterdeck and the Cloister written by Whychcotte and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gillian Darley
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300086959
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (869 download)
Download or read book John Soane written by Gillian Darley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Soane (1753-1837) was one of the most influential and original of all English architects. In this lavishly illustrated biography, Darley places Soane's life and buildings side by side, and her insights into this complex man and his turbulent life add a great deal to the understanding of his extraordinary work. 235 illustrations, 75 in color.
Author : Oliver Optic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Brave Old Salt, Or, Life on the Quarter Deck written by Oliver Optic and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Molly Elliot Seawell
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387084390
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Quarterdeck and Fok'sle; Stories of the Sea written by Molly Elliot Seawell and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
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Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Quarter-Deck; Or, Home and Abroad. By an Old Sailor [Matthew Henry Barker]. written by and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julian Stockwin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493071351
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Quarterdeck written by Julian Stockwin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-10-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promoted to acting lieutenant at the bloody Battle of Camperdown in October 1797, Thomas Kydd must now sit an examination to confirm his rank—or face an inglorious return before the mast. But this is only the first of many obstacles for a man who was pressed into the King's service and discovered a calling for the sea. Kydd is from humble origins, yet he attains the lofty heights of the quarterdeck as an officer in His Majesty's Navy. If he is to avoid spending the rest of his career as a tarpaulin officer, he must also become a gentleman. Kydd and his enigmatic friend Nicholas Renzi set sail in HMS Tenacious for the North American station. Aboard the old 64-gun ship, Kydd comes to doubt he will ever match up to the high-born gentlemen officers.
Author : Kimberley Jordan Reeman
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789017718
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Coronach written by Kimberley Jordan Reeman and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Excellent and splendidly written [...] the characters fully grown and demanding the reader’s attention and involvement. I wait for more.” – Winston Graham, author of the Poldark novels Let the truth be told... Scotland, July 1746: an army of occupation ravages the Highlands, committing atrocities with consequences that will reverberate across generations. From this bloody cataclysm, the battle-hardened English soldier Mordaunt saves an infant who will become his heiress and his obsession, and on his shattered estate a traumatised Franco-Scottish laird, Ewen Stirling, offers refuge to a boy damaged by unspeakable horror. These lives, bound by fate, unfold against the turbulence of the eighteenth century in a magnificent, uncompromising saga of love and the human cost of war.
Author : Frederick Chamier
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848320973
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)
Download or read book Life of a Sailor written by Frederick Chamier and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chamier was a Royal Navy officer, who like his exact contemporary Captain Marryat is best remembered for a series of naval novels. The Life of a Sailor was his first publication and is usually catalogued as fiction, which may be a tribute to Chamiers story-telling skills but it is wrong the book is an exact account of his naval career, with every personality, ship and event he describes corroborated by his service records. By the time he went to sea in 1809, the heroic age of Nelson was over, but the war was far from won, and he was to see a lot of action, from anti-slavery patrols off Africa to punitive raids on the American coast during the War of 1812. His descriptions of the latter were to prove highly controversial. Like many liberal officers, he deplored the strategy of bringing the war to the civilian population, and the book was much criticised by more senior naval officers for saying so. Chamier represents a new generation of post-Nelsonic naval officer, more gentlemanly, better educated and perhaps more open-minded he certainly got on well with Lord Byron, whom he met in Constantinople and his sympathies generally look forward to the Victorian age. He was too young to rise to high rank, and after the Napoleonic War, like many others, he was condemned to a life on half-pay and perhaps forced into a literary career, but out of it came one of the eras most authentic accounts of a junior officers naval service.
Author : James C Bradford
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612512623
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Quarterdeck and Bridge written by James C Bradford and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This superb collection of biographical essays tells the story of the U.S. Navy through the lives of the officers who forged its traditions. The essayists are leading naval historians who assess the careers of these men and their impact on the naval service, from the Continental Navy of the American Revolution to the nuclear Navy of the Cold War.
Author : Charles Morgan
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Gunroom written by Charles Morgan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1919 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morgan's criticism of the British Navy in this novel led to the book's limited distribution.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The London Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1054 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Naval Encyclopædia written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Langbridge Morgan
Publisher : anboco
ISBN 13 : 3736416806
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (364 download)
Download or read book The Gunroom written by Charles Langbridge Morgan and published by anboco. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Langbridge Morgan, playwright and novelist of English and Welsh parentage, author of The Gunroom. The main themes of his work were, as he himself put it, "Art, Love, and Death", and the relation between them. Themes range from the paradoxes of freedom, through passionate love seen from within and without, to the conflict of good and evil and the enchanted boundary of death.
