Book ID: CBB001422517

Support for the Fleet: British Naval Bases, 1700--1914 (2011)

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Coad, J. G. (Author)


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Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: 464 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Language: English

This major new book traces for the first time the architectural and engineering works in the Royal Navy's shore bases at home and overseas and the political imperatives and technologies that helped shape them up to the First World War. Based on detailed archival research, it concentrates on the remarkable legacy of surviving structures. The varied requirements of the sailing navy and its steam-driven successor are reflected in successive dockyard remodellings and expansions. The book reveals the close links that developed with a rapidly industrialising Britain at the end of the eighteenth century, showing contributions of figures such as Samuel Bentham, Thomas Telford, Henry Maudslay, the Rennies, the Jessops and James Watt. The influence of the Royal Engineers is traced from early beginnings in the 1700s to their major role in the dockyard expansions from the late 1830s into the twentieth century. The architectural development of victualling and ordnance yards, naval hospitals, schools and coaling stations are all described, together with their key contributions to Great Britain's long naval supremacy. Copiously illustrated with maps, plans and photographs, this important and lively work will appeal to naval historians, industrial archaeologists and students of British history.

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Authors & Contributors
Morriss, Roger
Harland, John H.
Leggett, Don
Howard J. Fuller
Filipe Vieira de Castro
Taylor, Miles
Concepts
Ships and shipbuilding
Military technology
Technology
Science and war; science and the military
Engineering, naval
Sea travel
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Early modern
Renaissance
17th century
Places
Great Britain
Batavia (Netherlands)
Atlantic Ocean
England
United States
Netherlands
Institutions
Great Britain. Royal Navy
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