Modern Era Naval Non-Fiction Section

Battles

Biographical

Famous Ships

Ships & Design

General

It is hard today to envisage the era when the Royal Navy ruled the seas, its cruisers and gunboats policing Britain's worldwide empire and trade, its battlefleet providing the force behind Britain's global power. It was a legendary service carrying an aura of invincibility from its victorious history culminating in Trafalgar even as its ships changed out of all recognition in response to the industrial age, Nelson's 'wooden walls' giving way to steel battleships, destroyers and submarines.

Peter Padfield describes this wholesale transformation and brings the lives of officers and men and the tasks they undertook vividly to the page. This classic account of a uniquely splendid service remains unsurpassed.

Rule Britannia: The Victorian and Edwardian Navy

Author: Peter Padfield

Title: Rule Britannia: The Victorian and Edwardian Navy

Series:

First Published by: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books

Place:

Format: HC

Date: 30 September 1981

ISBN-10:

ISBN-13:

amazoncouk

amazoncom

  • Author: Peter Padfield
  • Title: Rule Britannia: The Victorian and Edwardian Navy
  • First Published by: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
  • First Published Format: HC
  • First Published Date: 30 September 1981

© 2008-2024 David Hayes (Astrodene)