Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Brian Lavery
yhteensä 51 hakutulosta
Shipboard Life and Organisation, 1731-1815
First published in 1998, this volume explores the Royal Navy which had most of its greatest triumphs in the decades up to 1815, but has received relatively little study of its …
Wooden Warship Construction
The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artifacts made by the craftsmen …
Nelson's Victory
May 2015 sees the 250th anniversary of the launch of HMS Victory, the ship that is so closely associated with Nelson and his great victory at Trafalgar and which, still extant, has …
Royal Yachts Under Sail
The first book to deal in detail with the development and uses of royal yachts.
Cassini's Vision
Anson's Navy
Despite a supreme belief in itself, the Royal Navy of the early eighteenth century was becoming over-confident and outdated, and it had more than its share of disasters and …
The Headscarf Revolutionaries
The harsh seas of 1968.Three trawlers from Hulls fleet sink in just 3 weeks.58 Dead. 1 Survivor.Enough is enough.Lilian Bilocca put down her filleting knife, picked up some sheets …
Wooden Warship Construction
';A wonderful book detailing the construction of the Royal Navy's sailing warships' from the maritime historian and author of Nelson's Navy (Pirates and Privateers). The National …
Down to Earth
The Last Big Gun
As she lay in dry dock, devastatingly damaged by one of Hitler’s newly deployed magnetic mines after barely two months in service, few could have predicted the illustrious career …
Life in Nelson's Navy
Were that sailors excited about the Battle of Trafalgar, or suffering scurvy? How did life compare between those of a high rank, and those who served them? What were conditions …