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ANATOMY OF NELSON'S SHIPS

by C. Nepean Longridge

This complete reference includes many photographs previously unavailable to the general public, nearly 200 line drawings, foldout inboard and...

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RUSSIAN WARSHIPS IN THE AGE OF SAIL, 1696-1860

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Peter the Great created the Russian navy from nothing, but it soon surpassed Sweden as the Baltic naval power, while in the Black Sea it became an...

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FIRESHIP

by Peter Kirsch

The fireship was the guided missile of the age of sail. Packed with incendiary (and sometimes explosive) material, it was aimed at its highly...

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FIRST RATE

by Rif Winfield

In the sailing era, the warships called "First Rates" were the largest, most powerful, and most costly ships to construct, maintain, and...

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PEPYS'S NAVY

by J.D. Davies

All aspects of the English navy in the second half of the seventeenth century are comprehensively described in this book by one of Britain's leading...

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THE GREAT TRADE ROUTES

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The ancient world saw the expansion of Western Asian, Mediterranean and Polynesian civilizations as transport networks for trade were established....

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THE RESTORATION WARSHIP

by Richard Endsor

Superbly researched and expertly illustrated, this study offers one of the most detailed building and career histories of a ship ever written, the...

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WARSHIPS OF THE NAPOLEONIC ERA

by Robert Gardiner

Between 1793 and 1815 two decades of unrelenting naval warfare raised the sailing man of war to the zenith of its effectiveness as a weapon of war....

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HMS WARRIOR 1860

by Andrew Lambert

A revolutionary ship symbolizing British naval might in the Victorian age, HMS Warrior was the world's first iron-hulled, armored warship and now...

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NELSON’S NAVY, REVISED AND UPDATED

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With a foreword by Patrick O’Brian, Nelson's Navy is the definitive reference work on the British Navy in the Napoleonic era for...

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THE SAILING FRIGATE

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The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world. This book is the first in a series which...

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PASSAGE TO THE WORLD

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From the early nineteenth century onwards, millions of people left their homes to cross the seas. Some, like the convicts transported from England to...

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