British Warships in the Age of Sail 1817-1863: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates 9781473837430, 147383743X

The publication of this book sees the completion of a monumental work listing the technical details and career histories

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British Warships in the Age of Sail 1817-1863: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates
9781473837430, 147383743X

The publication of this book sees the completion of a monumental work listing the technical details and career histories

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At the zenith of its power in 1809 the Royal Navy comprised one half of all the warships in the world, the first (and la

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Peter the Great created a navy from nothing, but it challenged and soon surpassed Sweden as the Baltic naval power, whil

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The seventeenth century saw the transformation of Britain from a minor state on the fringes of Europe into a global econ

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In 1786 the French Navy had just emerged from its most successful war of the eighteenth century, having frequently outfo

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The origins of a permanent French sailing navy can be traced to the work of Cardinal Richelieu in the 1620s, but a virtu

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In the sailing era, the warships called First Rates were the largest, most powerful, and most costly ships to construct,

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Between 1793 and 1815 two decades of unrelenting naval warfare raised the sailing man of war to the zenith of its effect

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