The Fishburns and the Langbournes were two of the three most notable Whitby shipbuilders in the last decade of the eighteenth century. Thomas Fishburn was known for producing ship-rigged vessels with ...
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This paper discusses the role of the Royal Navy in the acquisition of Weihaiwei in China as a northern naval base for the China Squadron. The decision was made for political motives rather than naval ...
The Russian–American Company fleet (1799–1871) provided communication between the Asian and Baltic ports of Russia and the distant Russian colonies in Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. At the beginning ...
This paper outlines the operations of the Russian Navy, mostly in the Aegean and Adriatic Seas, against French and Turkish Fleets. The author describes a number of campaigns waged by the Russian ...
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The subject of this article is the development of the naval dockyard and ancillaries at Plymouth. The author examines the planning and the construction of these facilities on the Devon side of the ...
Between 1689 and 1763, Britain failed to capture the main Spanish and French possessions. Transporting and supplying British expeditions, which suffered morbidity on the crossing and in the islands, ...
In the 17 th Century systematic drainage of the Fenland freed large areas for agricultural development. To export products to the harbours of The Wash, the rivers Nene and Ouse together with their ...
Following a brief history of skin-covered boats, with the earliest records of such vessels in Britain dating from the time of the Romans, Hornell then proceeds to record the differences between the ...
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In November 1295 several English seaport towns were ordered to build galleys to strengthen the fleet for the war with France. A total of twenty galleys were ordered and the resulting accounts for ...
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