Imprint:
United Kingdom : HMSO, 1981
Notes:
For centuries young Britons have heard the 'call of the sea' and they have responded by joining the Royal Navy. They are still responding today, for the glamour of going to sea has hardly been affected by the changes in ships, their equipment or the roles they play. Part of the appeal is the unique history of the Royal Navy and its associated forces like the Royal Marines and the Women's Royal Naval Service.
Commander Clark has put together a short but fact-filled history of British sea power since the Middle Ages. The star-studded procession of 'sea kings' from Drake and Hawkins, Blake and Benbow, Anson and Hawke, Howe and St Vincent, and the incomparable Nelson, to Fisher and Jellicoe, Beatty and Keyes and Cunningham and Vian, is deftly woven into the wider panorama of British naval history made up as it is from the countless other officers and men and women who contributed their individual and special parts.
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