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The Royal Dockyards during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Roger Morriss

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Description:The main credit for Britain's naval superiority in the age of sail has traditionally been accorded to her sea officers. By comparison the civil departments of the navy have always been regarded as the sea officers' Achilles heel — their organization inefficient, their officials corrupt and their wastage of resources scandalous. This book examines the largest of these departments at the time when Britain's naval superiority was at its height and for this period corrects these traditional assumptions. It shows that in spite of its problems of accessibility and capacity the performance of the yards was prodigious; that, moreover, as the work of improvement and reform gathered way, efficiency in the Navy Office and the yards increased, as did the professionalism of the staff and the economy with which materials and labour were used. Here, set in context, are the procedures by which ships were refitted, repaired and built; the methods by which naval stores were acquired and expended; the system by which artificers were employed and controlled; and the problems and course of reform. St Vincent, Barham, Samuel Bentham, as well as lesser-known reformers, receive attention, as do such episodes as the timber supply crisis, the introduction of the first steam-powered mass-production processes, and Robert Seppings' struggle to introduce diagonal bracing in ship construction. We see not only that the yards made a vital contribution to the success of the navy but that the efforts of yard and Navy Office officials to maintain and improve that contribution were as credible in their own way as the part performed by the men who went to sea.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Royal Dockyards during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. To get started finding The Royal Dockyards during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 271

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Leiceser University Press

Release: 1983

ISBN: 0718512154

Description: The main credit for Britain's naval superiority in the age of sail has traditionally been accorded to her sea officers. By comparison the civil departments of the navy have always been regarded as the sea officers' Achilles heel — their organization inefficient, their officials corrupt and their wastage of resources scandalous. This book examines the largest of these departments at the time when Britain's naval superiority was at its height and for this period corrects these traditional assumptions. It shows that in spite of its problems of accessibility and capacity the performance of the yards was prodigious; that, moreover, as the work of improvement and reform gathered way, efficiency in the Navy Office and the yards increased, as did the professionalism of the staff and the economy with which materials and labour were used. Here, set in context, are the procedures by which ships were refitted, repaired and built; the methods by which naval stores were acquired and expended; the system by which artificers were employed and controlled; and the problems and course of reform. St Vincent, Barham, Samuel Bentham, as well as lesser-known reformers, receive attention, as do such episodes as the timber supply crisis, the introduction of the first steam-powered mass-production processes, and Robert Seppings' struggle to introduce diagonal bracing in ship construction. We see not only that the yards made a vital contribution to the success of the navy but that the efforts of yard and Navy Office officials to maintain and improve that contribution were as credible in their own way as the part performed by the men who went to sea.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Royal Dockyards during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. To get started finding The Royal Dockyards during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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