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Osprey
Language
English
Pages
240

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Rum, sodomy and the lash
America's first Naval hero
The first submarine
'Hearts of oak"
Profile of a warship: the first warships
The largest naval battles in ancient history
Landlocked Navies
The warships that sank without the help of the enemy
Privateer or pirate?
US Navy acronyms
The watch system
Naval gun salutes
Piping the Side
Names of Imperial Japanese Navy warships in the Second World War
Rating the Fleet
The Two Ocean Navy
Profile of a warship: Sovereign of the Seas
Anchors
the bottom line
Preserving Admiral Nelson
The seven sea battles for Guadalcanal
HMS Cromwell
Sea battle: the Battle of Cape St Vincent, 1797
Louis XIV's weapons of mass destruction
Quotes by Naval Commanders
The nuclear fleet
USS Nautilus
the first nuclear submarine
'Anchors Aweigh"
Sea battle: the Battle of the Nile, 1798
The evacuation of Dunkirk
a miracle of planning
The world's greatest Naval bases
Naval disaster: the sinking of the Mary Rose
The smashing carronade
The first dreadnought
The ten most useful naval knots
Profile of a warship: The Constant Warwick
Roundshot, chainshot and grapeshot
Passing the Port and other wardroom etiquette
Fighting Admiral: Michael de Ruyter
Profile of a warship: HMS Victory
Sea shanties and shipboard music
Sea lanes and prevailing wind
Fighting Admiral: Richard Kempenfelt
Naval ranks in the US, UK and Canada
Naval disaster: wrecking of the Spanish Armada
Keelhauling
Naval signalling
Profile of a warship fleet: The Spanish Navy during the Napoleonic Wars
Sea battle: the Battle of Mobile Bay, 1864
The seven sea dogs
Fighting Admiral: John Byng
Naval disaster: the sinking of USS Maine
Profile of a warship: HMS The Fort Diamond
The rules of the road
Minesweeping for beginners
Signalling by Morse
Fighting Admiral: John Jervis
Alfred Mahan: the inventor of seapower
The theory of sailing
The Lords of the Admiralty
Profile of a warship fleet: the Pook Turtles
Painting the sailing man-of-war
How the press gang worked
Sea battle: the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898
Rum rations in the age of sail
Figureheads
The gunboats of Lake Tanganyika
What is the weather gage?
Profile of a warship: USS Monitor
Nelson's 'Band of Brothers'
Naval power in 1862
Pay and prize money in the Age of Fighting Sail
Profile of a warship: CSS Hunley
Mutiny!
Relative bearings
Fighting Admiral: Andrew Cunningham
Navel strategy: The Channel Fleet
The King of the Corsairs
Naval gun crews in the Age of Sail
Boarders away
Pearl Harbor hero: Doris Miller
Profile of a warship: Huascar
Injury and disease in the Age of Sail
Flogging
The Articles of War
Naval Arms Treaties
Profile of a warship: Admiral Popov
Naval technology: The Corvus
Naval disaster: the sinking of the Royal Oak
Portrait of a warship fleet: the first torpedo boats
Josiah Tattnal
US Naval hero
The guns of the Victory
The most treacherous waters in the Age of Sail
The world's most powerful battleship
The Captain
a man apart
The U-Boat aces
Nelson and other limbless Admirals
Anglo-American frigate duels
Ships' mascots
Raising the Vasa
The most successful Admirals in history
Naval power in 1914
Naval disaster: Arctic Convoy PQ-17
Profile of a warship: Q-Ships
The naval world of Patric O'Brian
Pearl Harbor
facts and figures
The Navy in the movies
Sea battle: the Battle of Midway, 1942
The Navy and the pirates
Historic ships: our international naval heritage
Fighting Admiral: Chester Nimitz
No flowers on a sailor's grave
Merrimack, Merrimac or Virginia?
Jack Speak.

Edition Notes

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Oxford, Long Island City, NY

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
359.002
Library of Congress
V21 .K66 2010, V107

The Physical Object

Pagination
240 pages
Number of pages
240

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27898109M
Internet Archive
navalmiscellany0000kons
ISBN 10
1846039894
ISBN 13
9781846039898
LCCN
2010280773
OCLC/WorldCat
429022088

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