The Development of Navies During the Last Half-Century

The Development of Navies During the Last Half-Century

Sydney Marow Eardley-Wilmot, British naval officer (1847-1929)


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Table of Contents

- About This Book

- Preface

- The Navy In 1840

- Creation Of A Steam Fleet

- Broadside Ironclads

- Early Turret Ships

- Barbette System Combined With Broadside

- Coast Defence-the Ram

- Armour - Later Turret Ships

- Cruisers

- Ordnance

- Torpedo Warfare

- Steam Propulsion

- Foreign Navies - Europe

- Foreign Navies- United States And South America