Such were the ships that won the great English victory in 1588 over the Spanish Armada, which contained large, slow ships with relatively few easily reloadable guns. But at the end of his life (1920) Fisher was convinced that air power was inseparable from sea power in any future conflict, and that the capital ship had had her day—a glimpse of what was to happen in the Second World War to the Prince of Wales, Repulse, and Hood.

The Naval Warrant Officer's Journal suggested that the book be on every ship, and in 1902 said that it should be available to every naval officer. At the start of the American Revolution (1775–83), members of the Continental Congress (see Continental Congress, First ) debated the value and necessity of establishing an official navy. Yet Dreadnought was rapidly overtaken by more powerful and faster sisters, and she herself played little part in the First World War. The three Anglo-Dutch maritime wars from 1652 to 1674 and the rise of the new strong monarchy in France was the start for a major growth and transformation of the European fleets.Britain retained this position until the twentieth century, and other great powers were reduced to more or less successful challengers of British supremacy over the European and transoceanic sea-lanes.

The first of these challenges came from a new combination of naval powers, France and Spain, which began to act as allies in the eighteenth-century struggle over colonies and trade in America and Asia.There have been several books written about the Navy and the Civil War, most notably, Tony Gibbons 's Warships andNaval Battles of the Civil War (Popular Culture Ink, 1990), Ivan Musicant's Divided Waters: The Naval History of the Civil War (Book Sales, 2000), and Jayne E. Placing maritime affairs in their larger historical context, the Encyclopedia shows how seafaring has both reflected and influenced the major economic, cultural, military, and political developments in world history. Denmark usually had the largest battle fleet, but the other two navies also maintained large oared flotillas of galleys, oared frigates, and, by the 1780s, gunboats. What sets Tucker's, The Civil War Naval Encyclopedia, apart is that it combines many of the issues that are covered in these other publications into an easy to navigate, two-volume set. M.'s, ships of war and forces by sea, wherein, under the good Providence of God, the wealth, safety, and strength of the Kingdom is so much concerned’ (Preamble to Naval Discipline Act, 1661); ‘Fishermen, yachtsmen … river boatmen … manned their craft with volunteer crews and rushed them to the assembly point, although they did not then know for what purpose they were required’ (Admiralty communiqué, The Times, 4 June 1940).

Naval Encyclopedia provides a one-stop place for everything related to naval warfare through ships classes, going back to antiquity to the present day, with particular focus on WW1, WW2 and the cold war, with weekly articles and new fleets every month.Wellington's logistical back-up had been prefigured, however modestly, by the first wintering of a British fleet in the Mediterranean in 1694–5; but few developments in Britain's Atlantic economy were more spectacular than the doubling of her exports to the Caribbean after 1808, following the Anglo-Spanish entente. For questions on access or troubleshooting, please check our FAQs, and if you can''t find the answer there, please contact us.

The critical phase in European naval history when France lost the initiative to the maritime powers. e., cruisers, destroyers, and battleships; and (3) those that fight mainly with underwater weapons such as mines, torpedoes, and depth charges, i. Some of the more interesting entries of the book include: "African American Sailors," "Food and Drink aboard Ship," "Balloons," "Shipboard Life," "Confederate Naval Strategy," and "Union Naval Strategy.The net effect is that the 594 content-bearing facsimile pages are easier to read and larger than their scanned progenitors. Because each style has its own formatting nuances that evolve over time and not all information is available for every reference entry or article, Encyclopedia. These two volumes are sure to become an indispensable resource for both the serious scholar and anyone interested in the Civil War at sea. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.