Naval category: 2015 books
Trimming Yankee Sails
Pirates and Privateers of New Brunswick
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
The word "pirate" conjures up many Hollywood images, but Trimming Yankee Sails by Faye Kert paints a very different picture. Covering the Atlantic coast from Cape Breton Island, Halifax, and Saint John to the east coast of the United States down to the Virginias, this insightful book offers...
River Gunboats
An Illustrated Encyclopaedia
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
The first recorded engagement by a steam-powered warship took place on a river, when in 1824 the Honourable East India Company's gunboat _Diana_ went into action on the Irrawaddy in Burma. In the 150 years that followed river gunboats played a significant part in over forty campaigns and individual...
73 North
The Battle of the Barents Sea
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
The events and decisions that culminated in the Battle of the Barents Sea—what many consider to be the most important naval engagement of World War II's European theatre—in which eight of the German navy's most powerful ships failed to sink a Russian convoy guarded by only four small British destroyers,...
Churchill's Thin Grey Line
British Merchant Ships at War 1939–1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The naval historian and retired merchant navy captain recounts the contributions of Britain’s civilian ships during WWII in this “cracking read” (The Bridgend & Porthcawl Gem).
The first British casualties of the Second World War were not members of the Royal Navy, the army, or the Royal...
by Indian Navy
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
This photo-essay book is a modest attempt to link our maritime past, along with the entire progress, to the present, and in light of the same, to relate the future of the nation to a distinct maritime orientation with the Indian Navy as the lead national maritime agency. It traces about 7,500 years of...
by John Carr
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Built at Livorno in 1910, the 10,000-ton RHNS Averof had the distinction of being the flagship, and by far the biggest warship, of the Royal Hellenic Navy until 1951. More than a century after its construction, she is still afloat, one of just three armoured cruisers still in existence in the world....
Boats, Ships and Shipyards
Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Venice 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
From sewn planked boats in Early Dynastic Egypt to Late Roman wrecks in Italy, and the design of Venetian Merchant Galleys, this huge volume gathers together fifty-three papers presenting new research on the archaeology and history of ancient ships and shipbuilding traditions. The papers have been...
The Myth of the Press Gang
Volunteers, Impressment and the Naval Manpower Problem in the Late Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
SHORTLISTED for the Society for Nautical Research's prestigious Anderson Medal. The press gang is generally regarded as the means by which the British navy solved the problem of recruiting enough seamen in the late eighteenth century. This book, however, based on extensive original research conducted...
Samudra Manthan
Sino-Indian Rivalry in the Indo-Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Rising China and emerging India are becoming major maritime powers. As they build large navies to secure their growing interests, both nations are roiling the waters of the Indo-Pacific-the vast littoral stretching from Africa to Australasia.
Invoking a tale from Hindu mythology- Samudra Manthan...
by Roger Chesneau
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
• Everything the ship modeller needs to know about building a famous warship
• Numerous detailed plans and colour illustrations
• Focuses on very popular modelling subjects which are represented by a wide selection of kits
The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about...
That Hamilton Woman
Emma and Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Emma Hamilton, much maligned by her contemporaries and later by historians and commentators, rose from the most humble beginnings to play a startling role in Britain’s naval victory over France and Spain in 1805. In this new book Barry Gough, employing the letters between the protagonists, and the...
Enigma
The Untold Story of the Secret Capture
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
David Balme will be forever known as the 20-year-old hero who, on 9 May 1941, boarded a German U-boat in mid-Atlantic, and captured one of the greatest secrets of the Second World War. This capture – or ‘pinch’ as it was known within secret, inner circles – changed the course of the Battle...
Secret Flotillas
Vol. II: Clandestine Sea Operations in the Western Mediterranean, North Africa and the Adriatic, 1940-1944
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2004
This authoritative publication by the official historian, the late Sir Brooks Richards, vividly describes and analyses the clandestine naval operations that took place during World War II. The account has been made possible through Sir Brooks' access to closed government archives, combined with his own wartime experiences and the recollections of m
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This is an entirely new Naval Staff History covering the period immediately after the Second World War and the Royal Navy operations to prevent illegal Jewish immigration into Palestine, at the time under British Mandate from the United Nations. The Palestine Patrol, as it became known, illustrates...