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Collection: Special Collections - Loan
Record 155 of 18928

Imprint:
United Kingdom : Adlard Coles Ltd., 1972
Collation:
Hardback
Notes:
In the period 1793-1815 Great Britain was engaged in naval warfare which extended far beyond European waters: the Far East, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean and the Pacific off South America were scenes of vital engagements. While blockade duty tied down the larger ships, the frigates and smaller vessels were dispatched, often singly or in small groups, on convoy and pursuit missions or as despatch carriers and scouts. They met not only the equivalent smaller vessels of European and American blockade runners and privateers but also higher-rated ships of greater tonnage and armament and larger crews. It is to the great credit of the Royal Navy commanders and crews that in the smaller ships seamanship and fighting discipline were as great as on larger ships commanded by officers of greater rank and age.
Sloops (not the modern yachtsman's idea of sloops. but full-rigged ships of over 300 tons, brigs, cutters, schooners, bomb-ketches and gun-brigs made up this navy of vessels, some as light as 70 tons. Some were experimental in design and armament. Most were commanded by young officers leading small crews. The outstanding personalities among them (some later to become famous captains and admirals) are brilliantly evoked.
ISBN:
0229986447
Dewey Class:
623.82241
Language:
English
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BRN:
2883941
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