Warships of the Napoleonic Era (Chatham Pictorial Histories)
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (662 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 155750962X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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"The Intricacies of Ship Design" according to Kevin F. Kiley. Robert Gardiner has done us all a great service with his series of books on the sailing navies, and the war in which they engaged. This book is no different and is a valuable addition to the series.It is a book of sailing ship plans of all the main, and some of the smaller, belligerents of the French Revolutionaly and Napoleonic Wars. It is somewhat on the line of Chappelle's superb History of the American Sailing Navy, although not as comprehensive. Still, it is scholarly, has Admiralty plans of dozens of warships, from the ship of the line, through frigates, sloops, and brigs, to the lowly bomb ketches.The narrative is authoritative. Eric Husher said Good as far as it goes. This book provides a good quick summary of ship types of the Napoleonic era, including a brief summary of 'enemy' (i.e. non-British) warships of the period. While the ships plans shown are valuable in and of themselves, I found the cursory treatment of non-British warships to be rather annoying. Further, when presenting plans of non-British ships, they invariably (in the case of major combatants) showed the ships as they were fitted AFTER being taken into British service (i.e. captured) and not as originally built. While this may simply represent a limitation in the collections of historical plans available in Britain, it would have b. An excellent survey of the types of vessels used Bruce Trinque According to the book jacket, this book "reproduces original plans of all the principal types of warship employed during the Napoleonic Wars". The quality of these reproductions admittedly varies from ship to ship because of the condition of the original plans (in the files of the National Maritime Museum), but in general they quite clearly depict the hull forms and basic features of the warships in question. Perhaps two-thirds of the plans are from Bitish shipyards, while the rest are plans made from captured ships. Thus, a good representation of the ships of France, Spain, the United States, the Netherlands, and Denmark/Sweden is ma
. Robert Gardiner is the author of a number of books, including Frigates of the Napoleonic Wars and resides in England
Many seapowers became involved in the conflict, and at some point virtually all aligned themselves against Great Britain. Thanks to its superiority, the Royal Navy took many of its enemy ships in battle and developed the habit of drawing plans of the ones they captured. All of the principal types of warships employed during the conflict are included, from huge three-deckers down to gunboats and even the support craft on which every dockyard depended. This book reproduces a representative selection of these plans for the main protagonists--French, Spanish
. About the Author Robert Gardiner is the author of a number of books, including Frigates of the Napoleonic Wars and resides in England