Download or read book The Steam Navy of Britain written by Harry Williams and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steam Power and Sea Power written by Steven Gray and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the expansion of a steam-powered Royal Navy from the second half of the nineteenth century had wider ramifications across the British Empire. In particular, it considers how steam propulsion made vessels utterly dependent on a particular resource – coal – and its distribution around the world. In doing so, it shows that the ‘coal question’ was central to imperial defence and the protection of trade, requiring the creation of infrastructures that spanned the globe. This infrastructure required careful management, and the processes involved show the development of bureaucracy and the reliance on the ‘contractor state’ to ensure this was both robust and able to allow swift mobilisation in war. The requirement to stop regularly at foreign stations also brought men of the Royal navy into contact with local coal heavers, as well as indigenous populations and landscapes. These encounters and their dissemination are crucial to our understanding of imperial relationships and imaginations at the height of the imperial age.
Download or read book The Steam Navy of England Past Present and Future written by Harry Williams and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Building the Steam Navy written by David Evans and published by Conway Maritime Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of the Napoleonic wars, the Royal Navy's shore-based facilities employed nearly 16,000 people in Great Britain and formed the greatest manufacturing complex in the world. This volume recounts the development of the dockyards and their infrastructure, logistics, and operations as the introduction of new technology forged a revolution in ship design and construction. It spans the construction of the first purpose-built workshops for maintenance and repair in 1830 to the symbolic end of the Victorian era in the Royal Navy with the completion of HMS Dreadnought in 1906. The book includes chapters on Woolwich and the first steam factory; iron construction; the technological edge; Greene, Scamp and the integrated factory; HMS Volcano and the development of mobile logistics; mechanization; building the first iron warships; and coaling the navy. Fully illustrated with plans, drawings, engravings, and maps, this comprehensive history is both an essential reference and fascinating reading.
Download or read book The Steam Navy of England written by Harry Williams and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Naval Warfare with Steam written by Sir Howard Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy During the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Volume 1 written by Theodore Roosevelt and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Letter on the importance of Steam Navigation to the British Navy Addressed to Admiral Lord Viscount Exmouth To which is added a description of an American Steam Frigate By an Officer of the Royal Navy written by Edward PELLEW (1st Viscount Exmouth.) and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Steam Navy of England written by Harry Williams and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-08 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardcover reprint of the original 1895 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9"". No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Williams, Harry. The Steam Navy Of England: Past, Present, And Future. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Williams, Harry. The Steam Navy Of England: Past, Present, And Future, . London: W.H. Allen, 1895. Subject: Great Britain, Royal Navy
Download or read book The Steam Navy of England written by Harry Williams (R.N.) and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Observations on the Steam Navy of Great Britain and the Horsepower of Marine Engineers 1847 written by G. V. Gustafsson and published by . This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Steam Politics and Patronage written by Basil Greenhill and published by Brassey's. This book was released on 1994 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is an interpretation of the complete transformation of the Royal Navy which took place in the years between the Napoleonic and Russian Wars. The book sets out to show how the Admiralty, far from being obstructive to the introduction of steam power, grasped those opportunities which came with the Industrial Revolution.
Download or read book A Steam Manual for the British Navy written by Woodford John Williams and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ... divided into half inches. As by the exhaustion in the condenser, the mercury will rise as much in the long leg as it will sink in the short one, these divisions will be equivalent to inches of the common barometer, and thus shew the perfect, or partial degree of the vacuum in the condenser. The Indicator, is of advantage to ascertain the force of the steam, and the state of exhaustion in the cylinder at different periods of the stroke of the Piston. Thus if the guage of the boiler shews a considerably greater force of steam, than the indicator at the cylinder, it argues something wrong in the steam pipe: ---if an important difference exists between the vacuum in the cylinder, and that in the condenser, then it is evident that some defect exists either in the steam passage, or in the working of the steam valve. The indicator therefore shews how the component parts of the engine work together and its application becomes very useful at intervals of nine and twelve months: but the mechanism of this instrument is too complicated to enable me to give a clear description of it upon paper. CHAPTER II. A description of the Machinery. The Machinery may be mainly considered under two heads: --firstly, those parts which are directly connected with the steam; and secondly, those which are engaged in communicating the motion to the paddle wheels. Under the first head will be described, 1. The boiler (fig. I). 2. The bed plate, condenser, and hot well, (r and s in adjoining plate). 3. The cylinder, steam valve, and air pump, (t, w, v, in adjoining plate). Under the second head will be arranged, (see adjoining plate). 1. Piston and piston rod. (a) 2. Cross head, (b) 3. Side rods, (c) 4. Radius bars and shaft, (dj 5. Side rod of parallel motion, (ej 6..
Download or read book The Steam Navy of England Past Present and Future written by Harry WILLIAMS (Chief Inspector of Machinery, R.N.) and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Steam Manual for the British Navy written by W. J. WILLIAMS (Captain R.N.) and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Royal Navy in European Waters During the American Revolutionary War written by David Syrett and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the American Revolutionary War, Great Britain's Royal Navy faced foes that included, in addition to American forces, the navies of France, Spain and the Netherlands. In this operational history of a period that proved to be a turning point for one of the world's great naval powers, David Syrett presents a saga of battles, blockades, great fleet cruises and, above all, failures and lost opportunities. He explains that the British government severely underestimated the Americans' maritime strength and how that error led to devastating consequences. The seemingly invincible navy failed to muster even one decisive victory during the extensive naval conflict.
Download or read book Clad in Iron written by Howard J. Fuller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-12-30 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work addresses many persistent misconceptions of what the monitors were for, and why they failed in other roles associated with naval operations of the Civil War (such as the repulse at Charleston, April 7, 1863). Monitors were 'ironclads'- not fort-killers. Their ultimate success is to be measured not in terms of spearheading attacks on fortified Southern ports but in the quieter, much more profound, strategic deterrence of Lord Palmerston's ministry in London, and the British Royal Navy's potential intervention. The relatively unknown 'Cold War' of the American Civil War was a nevertheless crucial aspect of the survival, or not, of the United States in the mid 19th-century. Foreign intervention—explicitly in the form of British naval power—represented a far more serious threat to the success of the Union blockade, the safety of Yankee merchant shipping worldwide, and Union combined operations against the South than the Confederate States Navy. Whether or not the North or South would be 'clad in iron' thus depended on the ability of superior Union ironclads to deter the majority of mid-Victorian British leaders, otherwise tempted by their desire to see the American 'experiment' in democratic class-structures and popular government finally fail. Discussions of open European involvement in the Civil War were pointless as long as the coastline of the United States was virtually impregnable. Combining extensive archival research on both sides of the Atlantic, this work offers an in-depth look at how the Union Navy achieved its greatest grand-strategic victory in the American Civil War. Through a combination of high-tech 'machines' armed with 'monster' guns, intensive coastal fortifications and a new fleet of high-speed Union commerce raiders, the North was able to turn the humiliation of the Trent Affair of late 1861 into a sobering challenge to British naval power and imperial defense worldwide.
