Support for the Fleet: Architecture and Engineering of the Royal Navy's Bases 1700-1914

by Jonathan Coad and Jonathan Coad

This major new book traces for the first time the architectural and engineering works in the Royal Navy's shore bases at home and overseas and the political imperatives and technologies that helped shape them up to the First World War. Based on detailed archival research, it concentrates on the remarkable legacy of surviving structures. The varied requirements of the sailing navy and its steam-driven successor are reflected in successive dockyard...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848020554
• ISBN13: 9781848020559
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Historic England in Association with Liverpoo
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 4.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.0" x 10.9"