The Heavy Frigate: Eighteen-Pounder Frigates, Vol. 1: 1778-1800 (Conway's Ship Types)

By Robert Gardiner and Robert Gardiner

Part of the Conway's Ship Types series, this is the first of two volumes dealing with the development of the heavy frigate. It covers the introduction of 18-pounder armament in the War of American Independence, and then analyzes the standard heavy cruiser of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851776272
• ISBN13: 9780851776279
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.8" x 11.0"