The Victorian Navy

Queen Victoria was born Kensington Palace,London, on 24 May 1819Reigned 1837-1901

For the time being to include, a little incorrectly, post-Trafalgar to the turn of the 19th. Century
(and sometimes a little after)..

Victorian Navy List - Antiquarian

A true story of one of the most heroic and superbly disciplined incidents ever recorded. The story of the disaster, on 26 February 1852, of Her Majesty's Troopship Birkenhead, offers us one of the most pulsating examples of discipline and self-sacrifice ever recorded. David Bevan's " The Drums of the Birkenhead ". Lists the mames of the survivors and of the lost. Click this thumbnail to go to Admiral Sir Percy Scott's biography " Aim Straight " by Peter Padfield page at camberpete.co.uk ! Click here to go to the early memoirs of Admiral Sir William Cresswell " Close to the Wind " edited by Paul Thompson Click on this image to go to the beautifully illustrated " Armored Ships " by Ian Maxwell
Richard Humble's vivid and exciting account; BEFORE THE DREADNOUGHT-The Royal Navy from Nelson to Fisher; is concerned with life aboard ship just as much as with technical developments and naval incidents. The Fisher reforms and the introduction of the Dreadnought battleship in the early years of the 20th century put the seal on a century of dramatic and extraordinary change.
Royal Navy Surgeon Edward Cree's account of his service in China during the first of the so-called " Opium Wars " of 1840-42 in the troopship Rattlesnake. He was present at the storming of Canton and took part in hazardous and costly combined operations far up the little known and badly charted Yangtse River. Beautifully illustrated
Admiral G. A. Ballard’s largest and most valuable contribution to The Mariner's Mirror, the journal of the Society for Nautical Research, was undoubtedly the series he wrote on the warships of the mid-Victorian Royal Navy, which he commenced in 1929. Even in 1929, there were not many men left who were intimately familiar with the Navy of steam and sail, with wooden hulls, muzzle-loaders, and the first ironclads at sea.
 VICTORIA’S NAVY: The end of the sailing navy is the subject of Colin White's illustrated study of the developments that saw the modernisation of Victoria's fleet in the period 1830 to 1870. The book deals with four specific subjects — the technological developments, the new type of professional sailor, the Royal family's interest and activities in navy matters and an account of sea power in action at the time.
Admiral Edward 'Ned' Charlton's career in the Royal Navy from 25 January 1878, when at the age of twelve years and ten months he joined the training ship HMS Britannia. and then on through his career until retirement in 1924 recorded by his grandson Frank Urban. Well illustrated and full of very interesting anecdotal material Stokes circumnavigated Australia twice. Free to probe Australia's unknown coast, he was the last Royal Navy surveyor to hold such a roving commission. He discovered the Fitzroy, Albert and Flinders rivers and Port Darwin, and his most notable achievement was the charting of that graveyard of sailing ships—Bass Strait. He was the first naval surveyor in Australia to undertake considerable inland journeys as extensions of maritime work. More than a century later, twelve of his charts were still in use. Clicking here takes you to an enhanced autobiography of Admiral Sir Arthur William Moore, Royal Navy; page at camberpete.co.uk ! Click on this image to go to "Fisher of Kilverstone" by Ruddock F. Mackay"

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