Download or read book The Frigate Diana written by David White and published by Conway Maritime Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anatomy of the Ship series provides documentation of individual ships and ship types, accompanied by line drawings with descriptive keys, technical details and a record of the ship's service history. The frigate Diana, built in 1793, is typical of many that fought in the Napoleonic Wars.
Download or read book The Annual Register Or A View of the History and Politics of the Year written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Frigate Surprise written by Brian Lavery and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The HMS "Surprise" starred as the principal ship in Patrick O'Brian's much-celebrated Aubrey-Maturin series of novels. This volume narrates the career of HMS "Surprise" in both her historical and fictional roles.
Download or read book The Bomb Vessel Granado 1742 written by Peter Goodwin and published by Conway. This book was released on 2005-04-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Granado' was one of twelve bomb vessels built to supplement the British fleet at the outbreak of the War Of Jenkins' Ear in 1739. Bomb vessels were a specialization of the warship into a ‘floating siege engine’, carrying huge shell-firing mortars for the purpose of bombarding stationary targets. This volume is of special use to both the scratch-build modeller and the reader of C.S.Forester who wants to know more about bomb vessels. It also provides insights about Jack Aubrey's first command, since the Sophie was also a 14 gun brig-sloop with a quarterdeck and stern windows. The aim of this book is to provide the finest documentation of this important and unusual vessel type ever produced, through a complete set of superbly executed line drawings offering enthusiasts a novel insight into ship design and construction. It includes a service and design history and a pictorial section emphasising close-up and on-board photographs.
Download or read book The Eclaireur a Military Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Opening of Japan 1853 1855 written by William McOmie and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides a picture of the competition and cooperation, distrust and open hostility of the US, Britain, Holland and Russia involved in their joint enterprise in Japan. It documents the plans and outcomes of each of the four powers’ negotiations with Japan. At the same time it provides a fascinating commentary on the way business was done by the Japanese with each country and its representatives.
Download or read book H M S Surprise Vol Book 3 Aubrey Maturin Novels written by Patrick O'Brian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1991-05-17 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Few, very few books have made my heart thud with excitement. H.M.S. Surprise managed it." —Helen Lucy Burke, Irish Press In H.M.S. Surprise, British naval officer Jack Aubrey and surgeon Stephen Maturin face near-death and tumultuous romance in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Tasked with ferrying a British ambassador to the Sultan of Kampong, they find themselves on a prolonged voyage aboard a Royal Navy frigate en route to the Malay Peninsula. In this new sphere, Aubrey is on the defensive, pitting wits and seamanship against an enemy who enjoys overwhelming local superiority. But somewhere in the Indian Ocean lies the prize that could secure him a marriage to his beloved Sophie and make him rich beyond his wildest dreams: the ships sent by Napoleon to attack the China Fleet.
Download or read book On the Tides of the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of the United States the Gulf Stream and the Earthquake Waves of December 1854 written by Alexander Dallas Bache and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sailing Frigate written by Robert Gardiner and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artefacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the shipbuilders themselves, and ranging from the mid seventeenth century to the present day. As such they represent a three-dimensional archive of unique importance and authority. Treated as historical evidence, they offer more detail than even the best plans, and demonstrate exactly what the ships looked like in a way that even the finest marine painter could not achieve. This book is the first of a series which will take selections of the best models to tell the story of specific ship types in this case, the evolution of the cruising ship under sail. Each volume reproduces a large number of model photos, all in full colour, and including many close-up and detail views. These are captioned in depth, but many are also annotated to focus attention on interesting or unusual features. Although pictorial in emphasis, the book weaves the pictures into an authoritative text, producing an unusual and attractive form of technical history. While the series will be of particular interest to ship modellers, all those with an interest in ship design and development will attracted to the in-depth analysis of these beautifully presented books.
Download or read book Journals of the House of Commons written by Great Britain House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Hundred Days Vol Book 19 Aubrey Maturin Novels written by Patrick O'Brian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the best novelists since Jane Austen....The Hundred Days may be the best installment yet....I give O'Brian's fans joy of it."—Philadelphia Inquirer Napoleon, escaped from Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a vengeful phoenix. If he can corner the British and Prussians before their Russian and Austrian allies arrive, his genius will lead the French armies to triumph at Waterloo. In the Balkans, preparing a thrust northwards into Central Europe to block the Russians and Austrians, a horde of Muslim mercenaries is gathering. They are inclined toward Napoleon because of his conversion to Islam during the Egyptian campaign, but they will not move without a shipment of gold ingots from Sheik Ibn Hazm which, according to British intelligence, is on its way via camel caravan to the coast of North Africa. It is this gold that Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin must at all costs intercept. The fate of Europe hinges on their desperate mission. "The Hundred Days is certain to delight O'Brian's fans, for whom happiness is an unending stream of Aubrey/Maturin books....[It] is a fine novel that stands proudly on the shelf with the others."—Los Angeles Times
Download or read book Many a Midnight Ship written by Mark Bourrie and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riveting stories of maritime tragedies on North America's "inland seas"
Download or read book The Naval History of Great Britain 1811 1827 written by William James and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William M. James's Naval History is one of the most valuable works in the English language on the operation of the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. James corresponded widely with the survivors of the events he describes. By carefully evaluating and balancing conflicting reports and testimonies, he achieved an accuracy often lacking in later studies. The original five volumes were published in 1822 to 1824, with a six-volume edition appearing in 1826. This new hard-cover edition, with an introduction by the noted naval historian Andrew Lambert as well as an index for each volume, provides both scholars and maritime enthusiasts an accessible and affordable edition of this important work. Volume V features the 1808-1811 operations of the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean and Baltic seas, as well as its involvement in the Peninsular War. In Volume VI, the United States enters the war at sea, and the 1811-1827 battles feature vessels such as the USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere, Chesapeake and Shannon, United States and Macedonian.
Download or read book The Naval History of Great Britain written by William James and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Naval History of Great Britain from the Declaration of War by Trace in 1793 to the Accession of George IV written by William James and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
