Support for the Fleet: Architecture and engineering of the Royal Navy's bases 1700-1914

by Jonathan Coad

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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 remodellings and expansions.

The book reveals the close links that developed with a rapidly industrialising Britain at the end of the eighteenth century, showing contributions of figures such...

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  • ISBN10 1848020554
  • ISBN13 9781848020559
  • Publish Date 15 June 2013
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Historic England