In the sailing era, the warships called First Rates were the largest, most powerful, and most costly ships to construct,
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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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The publication of this book sees the completion of a monumental work listing the technical details and career histories
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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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Edward Hawke’s naval victories were matched only by Horatio Nelson, but few remember him today. So who was this naval ge
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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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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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