Book Description
How did the British navy maintain authority among its potentially disorderly crews? And what order exactly did it wish to establish?
Author : Thomas Malcomson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 13,85 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 1783271191
How did the British navy maintain authority among its potentially disorderly crews? And what order exactly did it wish to establish?
Author : Thomas A. Malcomson
Publisher :
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 2007
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Gareth Cole
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1317322398
The Office of Ordnance has been ill-served by previous accounts of its role in arming the Royal Navy during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. Cole offers an in-depth examination of its organizational structure and demonstrates how the department responded to the pressures of war over an extended period of time.
Author : Michael Arthur Lewis
Publisher : London : Allen & Unwin
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 16,33 MB
Release : 1960
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Geoffrey Jules Marcus
Publisher : New York : Viking Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 49,34 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780670109654
Author : Timothy David Jenks
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,1 MB
Release : 2002
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 43,71 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Great Britain. Royal Navy
ISBN :
Author : John Morrow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 10,33 MB
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1474277683
During the French wars (1793-1801, 1803-1815) the system of promotion to flag rank in the Royal Navy produced a cadre of admirals numbering more than two hundred at its peak. These officers competed vigorously for a limited number of appointments at sea and for the high honours and significant financial rewards open to successful naval commanders. When on active service admirals faced formidable challenges arising from the Navy's critical role in a global conflict, from the extraordinary scope of their responsibilities, and from intense political, public and professional expectations. While a great deal has been written about admirals' roles in naval operations, other aspects of their professional lives have not been explored systematically. British Flag Officers in the French Wars, 1793-1815 considers the professional lives of well-known and more obscure admirals, vice-admirals and rear-admirals. It examines the demands of naval command, flag officers' understanding of their authority and their approach to exercising it, their ambitions and failures, their professional interactions, and their lives afloat and onshore. In exploring these themes, it draws on a wide range of correspondence and other primary source material. By taking a broad thematic approach, this book provides a multi-faceted account of admirals' professional lives that extends beyond the insights that are found in biographical studies of individual flag officers. As such, it will be of great interest to students and scholars of British naval history.
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 10,62 MB
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1398114367
Jeremy Black charts the story of Britain's rise to naval supremacy across the long eighteenth century.
Author : Roger Knight
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 28,84 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 1843835649
An assessment of the work of the contractors who were commissioned by the Victualling Board to provision the fleet in this period. Provisioning the fleet, and the army overseas, during the French Wars of 1793-1815 was a major undertaking. This book explains how the Victualling Board in London handled this enormous task, focusing in particular on contractors -that is the merchants and brokers, who provided a vast range of commodities including flour and biscuit, salt beef and pork, as well as huge quantities of fresh water and coal, and every other item needed. It shows how these merchants could be large or small concerns, and provides detailed case studies of different kinds of contractors, including examples of contractors based both in Britain and in the navy's overseas bases. The book demonstrates how, overall, the contracting system represented the mobilisation of a substantial part of the British economy for war; how the performance of contracting was effective, with little or no corruption; and how the contractors took considerable financial risks and made only reasonable margins. It assesses the performance of the Victualling Board, arguing that this was good, and that the problem in the major area of weakness - accounting - was quickly addressed following a major crisis in 1808-09. It concludes that this was "an impressive performance" by the state, but that the overwhelming advantage was the resilience of the market, and that it was "upon the success of the contractors that the war at sea was won." For most of his career, ROGER KNIGHT was on the staff of the National Maritime Museum, leaving as Deputy Director in 2000. Since then he has taught at the Greenwich Maritime Institute at the University of Greenwich, where he is currently Visiting Professor of Naval History. MARTIN WILCOX completed a doctorate in maritime history at the University of Hull, and has been employed as postdoctoral research fellow at Greenwich Maritime Institute since 2006.