BEFORE THE DREADNOUGHT: The Royal Navy from Nelson to Fisher by Richard Humble

BEFORE THE DREADNOUGHT
THE ROYAL NAVY FROM NELSON TO FISHER
by RICHARD HUMBLE

BEFORE THE DREADNOUGHT: THE ROYAL NAVY FROM NELSON TO FISHER

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BEFORE THE DREADNOUGHT:
THE ROYAL NAVY FROM NELSON TO FISHER

RICHARD HUMBLE

First 1976 published in Great Britain
by Macdonald & Jane's Publishers Ltd., London

A cream cloth book with red lettering to spine, no inscriptions, in VERY GOOD PLUS condition. In a VERY GOOD condition unclipped dust wrapper with some light chipping..

ISBN 0 356 08324 1

Blurb

In the century when 'Britannia ruled the waves' the chief instrument of her power underwent an erratic-but complete-transformation. The advent of steam, steel and the explosive shell, signalled by the appearance of the first ironclads during the Crimean War, spelt the end of the old 'wooden wall' ships that had served at Trafalgar and, later, at Navarino. Similarly the end of the press gang made possible the formation of a new, professional, volunteer Navy.

The role of the Royal Navy as 'policeman of the world' involved it in a number of brushfire wars, antislavery expeditions and flag-waving exercises. Naval brigades fought at Sevastopol, during the relief of Lucknow, against the Maoris in New Zealand and the Boers in South Africa. Naval gunboats patrolled the Zambezi, the Yangtse and the Red Sea, and served against the Dervishes on the Nile. The mere presence of the Navy-as at Garibaldi's invasion of Naples-was sometimes enough to have a critical influence on events.

Richard Humble's vivid and exciting account 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.

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Part One —The Afterglow of Trafalgar, 1815-54

1 The Navy of 1815
2 Explorations and Brushfire Wars
3 Navarino, 1827 — End of an Era
4 Fighting the Slavers
5 Coal, Steam, and Steel

Part Two — Crimean Interlude, 1854-56

1 Full War Readiness?
2 Black Sea Ups and Downs
3 Fiasco in the Baltic
4 White Sea and Far East
5 The Human Factor

Part Three — Out of the Chrysalis, 1856-85

1 'This so-called Noo Navy . '
2 H.M.S. Achilles — Portrait of a Battleship, 1878
3 Showing the Flag
4 Alarms of War

Part Four — Victorian Sunset, 1885-1904

1 Teaching the Young Idea
2 Pride of the World: Diamond Jubilee, 1897
3 Gunboats and Popguns
4 'The Fleet is Not Ready to Fight . . . '

Epilogue — Fisher and the Dreadnought Revolution
Chronology
Appendices
General Index Index of Ships

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