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Title: The British Navy Book
Author: Cyril Field
Release Date: December 21, 2012 [eBook #41677]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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"It is full of great deeds sure to fire the imagination of any boy."—Times.
"Gives a better and more readable account of our army than any book we can think of."—Graphic.
"A most stirring, as well as informative book."—Scotsman.
"A glorious story, told in fine racy style."—Sheffield Daily Telegraph.
LONDON: BLACKIE & SON. Ltd., 50 OLD BAILEY, E.C.
The
British Navy Book
Lieut.-Col. and Brevet Col.
With Full-page Illustrations in Colour and in
Black-and-White and Numerous
Illustrations in the Text
BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED
LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY
Contents
| Chap. | Page | |
| Prologue: The Command of the Sea (A.D. 1915) | 9 | |
| I. | A Lesson from Cæsar | 19 |
| II. | Ancient War-ships | 28 |
| III. | Fighting-ships of the Middle Ages | 38 |
| IV. | Mariners of Other Days | 54 |
| V. | Some Mediæval Sea-fights | 60 |
| VI. | The Navy in Tudor Times | 67 |
| VII. | From Elizabeth to Victoria | 81 |
| VIII. | The "Turks" in the Channel | 99 |
| IX. | The Honour of the Flag | 115 |
| X. | The Evolution of Naval Gunnery | 125 |
| XI. | Evolution of the Ironclad Battleship | 146 |
| XII. | The Evolution of the Submarine and Submarine Mine | 167 |
| XIII. | Naval Brigades | 187 |
| XIV. | War-ships of all Sorts | 204 |
| XV. | The Manning of a Ship | 223 |
| XVI. | Beginning of the War Afloat | |