Support for the Fleet : Architecture and Engineering of the British Navay's Bases 1700-1914

Coad, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 1848020554 / ISBN 13: 9781848020559

Editore: Historic England, 2013

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• Titolo: Support for the Fleet : Architecture and Engineering of the British Navay's Bases 1700-1914
• Editore: Historic England
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1848020554
• ISBN 13: 9781848020559
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: New

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This major new book traces for the first time the architectural and engineering works in the Royal Navy’s shore bases at home and overseas and the political imperatives and technologies that helped shape them up to the First World War. Based on detailed archival research, it concentrates on the remarkable legacy of surviving structures. The varied requirements of the sailing navy and its steam-driven successor are reflected in successive dockyard remodellings and expansions. The book reveals the close links that developed with a rapidly industrialising Britain at the end of the eighteenth century, showing contributions of figures such as Samuel Bentham, Thomas Telford, Henry Maudslay, the Rennies, the Jessops and James Watt. The influence of the Royal Engineers is traced from early beginnings in the 1700s to their major role in the dockyard expansions from the late 1830s into the twentieth century. The architectural development of victualling and ordnance yards, naval hospitals, schools and coaling stations are all described, together with their key contributions to Great Britain’s long naval supremacy. Copiously illustrated with maps, plans and photographs, this important and lively work will appeal to naval historians, industrial archaeologists and students of British history.

Informazioni sugli autori

Jonathan Coad is a former Inspector of Ancient Monuments. He is a Vice-President of the Society for Nautical Research and a former President of the Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

Jonathan Coad is an author based in Robertsbridge.