| Author |
Field, Cyril, 1859-1942 |
| Title |
The British Navy Book
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| Contents |
Prologue: the command of the sea (A.D. 1915) -- A lesson from Cæsar -- Ancient war-ships -- Fighting-ships of the Middle Ages -- Mariners of other days -- Some mediæval sea-fights -- The navy in Tudor times -- From Elizabeth to Victoria -- The "Turks" in the channel -- The honour of the flag -- The evolution of naval gunnery -- Evolution of the ironclad battleship -- The evolution of the submarine and submarine mine -- Naval brigades -- War-ships of all sorts -- The manning of a ship -- Beginning of the war afloat -- Operations in the North Sea and Channel -- In the outer seas -- A reverse and a victory -- German raids and their signal punishment -- The Royal Naval Air Service.
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| Credits |
E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Emmy, Matthew Wheaton, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://archive.org)
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| Language |
English |
| LoC Class |
DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe
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| Subject |
Great Britain -- History
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| Subject |
Great Britain -- History, Naval
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| Category |
Text |
| EBook-No. |
41677 |
| Release Date |
Dec 21, 2012 |
| Copyright Status |
Public domain in the USA. |
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