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The British Navy: Volume 5: Its Strength, Resources, and Administration
Contributor(s): Brassey, Thomas (Author)

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 ISBN: 0511790236     ISBN-13: 9780511790232
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Published: February 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Military - General
- Technology & Engineering | Military Science
Dewey: 359
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History
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Sir Thomas Brassey (1836-1918), later Earl Brassey, was a politician with a particular interest in maritime affairs. He was a keen sailor, and his wife's accounts of their many voyages (also reissued in this series) were bestsellers. He subsequently became a Lord of the Admiralty and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, and Brassey's Naval Annual was for many years the authoritative survey of worldwide navies. This five-volume survey of the state of the British Navy was published between 1882 and 1883. Brassey was much involved with questions of the modernisation and reform of the Navy, at a time when international relations were marked by a maritime arms race. The books provide much technical detail about the different types of ship and weapons available to the Navy. Volume 5 (originally published in 1877 as British Seamen) discusses the merchant navy and the training of seamen.
 
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