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Author | : Alexander Stilwell |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2009-09-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1844685063 |
This sweeping naval history chronicles the many British vessels to bare the name Revenge, from the sixteenth-century galleon to the twentieth-century submarine. The glory years of the Royal Navy can be glimpsed between Sir Francis Drake’s Revenge and the Polaris submarine of the same name, built four centuries later. In its various forms, Revenge was at the Armada, the Azores, Trafalgar, and Jutland and with weapons capable of terrible destruction. The first Revenge, a 46-gun galleon launched in 1577, symbolized the boldness and flair of that period. Commanded by the legendary Drake, it was faster and more maneuverable than the massive Spanish galleons. Many years later, the mighty 25,000-ton battleship was representative of the strength of the British Empire at its peak. The first Revenge would have comfortably fitted across the beam of this battleship. More than a study of these mighty ships, The Story of the HMS Revenge describes their commanders and crews as well. Illustrated throughout, it captures the flavor of life on board and details technological developments, and of course, the actions in which they were involved.
Author | : Nicholas James Kaizer |
Publisher | : Reason to Revolution |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-12-31 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 9781912866724 |
The British Royal Navy entered the War of 1812 expecting victory. Naval victories of the previous two decades and the mythos of Lord Nelson had built a naval culture accustomed to aggressive action and victory against all odds. No one expected the tiny United States Navy to triumph, and yet by the year's end three British frigates and two sloops ha
Author | : Richard Woodman |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2022-06-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1493071467 |
In the aftermath of a typhoon, Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater brings his Britannic Majesty’s frigate Patrician into the shelter of the Pearl River upon the China Coast. He is entangled in bizarre events following the British occupation of Macao and Admiral Drury’s attack on Canton. Initially relieved to be assigned the duty of a convoy escort to Penang, Drinkwater discovers that the enemy’s cargo contains a mysterious quantity of silver and a single passenger. A routine task is suddenly complicated by the resurrection of an embittered hatred and Captain Drinkwater finds himself drawn in by treachery and greed towards a climatic rendezvous in the tropical rain forest of Borneo.
Author | : Michael Punke |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2015-05-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0007521316 |
Winner of 3 OSCARS including BEST DIRECTOR and BEST ACTOR Winner of 5 BAFTAS including Best Actor, Best Director and Best Film Winner of the 2016 Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Actor – Drama, and Best Director
Author | : Angus Konstam |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2020-10-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472833791 |
Mutiny on the Spanish Main tells the dramatic story of HMS Hermione, a British frigate which, in 1797, was the site of the bloodiest mutiny in British naval history, which saw the death of her captain and many of her officers. Though her crew handed her over to the Spanish, Hermione was subsequently recaptured in a daring raid on a Caribbean port two years later. Drawing on letters, reports, ship's logs, and memoirs of the period, as well as previously unpublished Spanish sources, Angus Konstam intertwines extensive research with a fast-paced but balanced account of the mutiny and its consequences.
Author | : Ian Mclaughlan |
Publisher | : Seaforth Publishing |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2014-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1848321872 |
This is the first study in depth of the Royal Navy's vital, but largely ignored small craft. In the age of sail they were built in huge numbers and in far greater variety than the more regulated major warships, so they present a particular challenge to any historian attempting a coherent design history. However, for the first time this book charts the development of the ancillary types, variously described in the 17th century as sloops, ketches, brigantines, advice boats and even yachts, as they coalesce into the single 18th-century category of Sloop of War. In this era they were generally two-masted, although they set a bewildering variety of sail plans from them. The author traces their origins to open boats, like those carried by Basque whalers, shows how developments in Europe influenced English craft, and homes in on the relationship between rigs, hull-form and the duties they were designed to undertake. ??Visual documentation is scanty, but this book draws together a unique collection of rare and unseen images, coupled with the author's own reconstructions in line drawings and watercolour sketches to provide the most convincing depictions of the appearance of these vessels. By tackling some of the most obscure questions about the early history of small-boat rigs, the book adds a dimension that will be of interest to historians of coastal sail and practical yachtsman, as well as warship enthusiasts.
Author | : Jim Malloy |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 2021-11-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1664197583 |
Raptor's Revenge has won six (6) five-star gold seal awards from book review contests. Love/hate; betrayal/triumph; battles/intrigue. A "Book Shelf Keeper". Mystery and romance with revenge and adventure on land and sea await readers following Jamey's quest in this historical fiction saga. It is Elizabeth's England and the saga of Jamey, fourteen years old, returning home to find his whole family murdered. Vowing revenge, he begins his quest with his only clue, a ring left by the killers. His adventures take him to sea and the Spanish Main as a privateer earning the title "El Raptor". Sailing to Jamaica to find the killer, he finds his true love but is captured and turned over to the inquisition.
Author | : Dilip Sarkar |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781848689442 |
'This book ... provides a completely new and unique perspective on the tragedy ... [of] the Royal Oak story.--the author has ... traced the families of various souls lost with the battleship that fateful night in 1939. Their photographs and stories are representative of all their shipmates. Interviews with survivors bring the dramatic events vivdly to life, emphasizing the human tragedy and experience of war.' (Back cover)
Author | : APLS |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2013-04-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1300982063 |
A collection (anthology) of short stories from the poetry group, APLS.
Author | : William Brinkley |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 2013-11-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0698156676 |
Hailed as “an extraordinary novel of men at war” (The Washington Post) this is the book that inspired the TNT television series starring Eric Dane, Rhona Mitra, Adam Baldwin and Michael Bay as Executive Producer. The unimaginable has happened. The world has been plunged into all-out nuclear war. Sailing near the Arctic Circle, the U.S.S. Nathan James is relatively unscathed, but the future is grim and Captain Thomas is facing mutiny from the tattered remnants of his crew. With civilization in ruins, he urges those that remain—one-hundred-and-fifty-two men and twenty-six women—to pull together in search of land. Once they reach safety, however, the men and women on board realize that they are earth’s last remaining survivors—and they’ve all been exposed to radiation. When none of the women seems able to conceive, fear sets in. Will this be the end of humankind?