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The Naval chronicle for 1817: containing a general and biographical history of the royal navy of the United kingdom with a variety of original papers

The Naval chronicle for 1817: containing a general and biographical history of the royal navy of the United kingdom with a variety of original papers

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ISBN10: 9353706238
ISBN13: 9789353706234
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 1 2019
Pages: 554
Weight: 1.53
Height: 1.23 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Britain's sea power did not run on legend alone; it ran on paperwork, courage, and constant invention. Logbooks, lives, and hard lessons. The Naval Chronicle for 1817 gathers that world into a single naval chronicle collection: a maritime history journal in book form, part report, part remembrance. Within this naval history anthology you will find sober accounts of British naval operations, notices of ships and stations, and a rich run of Royal Navy biographies that bring officers and seamen into sharp relief. Alongside the human story sit nautical engineering papers and original documents that show how the service thought, built, supplied, and fought in the nineteenth century navy. Published as Georgian era Britain adjusted to the post-conflict seas of the Napoleonic wars maritime, this volume is a historical naval reference of its moment: close enough to events to preserve contemporary detail, distant enough to reflect on reputation, loss, and national purpose. Military history researchers will value it as a dependable historical naval reference for names, dates, and context; family historians will recognise its strength as a naval genealogy resource; and general readers will enjoy the brisk mix of biography, analysis, and practical seamanship. For collectors of maritime history, it offers a period snapshot of policy, promotion, and professional debate, especially useful when cross-reading Admiralty records, ship logs, and campaign narratives today. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

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