First Rate - The Greatest Warships of the Age of Sail 9781473814257

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

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First Rate - The Greatest Warships of the Age of Sail
9781473814257

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

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