The period 1793-1815 was that of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars with France. This book describes the activities of the Ships of the Line - the battleships that took part in those titanic struggles.
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1860-1905
Seadragon ( SSN - 584 ) at Pearl Harbor in 1964 , with the USS Arizona memorial in the distance . The diagonal slots near the streamlined bow are for the bow planes , rotated and housed in the hull when surfaced .
This introduction to the years of the Napoleonic wars (1793 to 1815) tells the story of one of the keys to that great conflict, the Ship of the Line -...
Fighting Ships of World Wars One and Two
'Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships' series presents an international history of iron and steel warships from the first ironclad to the modern warship. The acclaimed series involved a major...
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
'Jane's War at Sea' reveals how warships have changed since Fred Jane's first book: how battleships lost their dominance to aircraft and submarines; why German U-boats nearly one both World Wars and weapons the warships of the next century ...
Hough weaves these examples into a pattern of progress ranging from the galleon to the immense super-dreadnought. But above all this story is a human one, a record of men and ships, of courage and endurance – a true taste of the sea.
This series contains complete listings of the world's combat ships from the first ironclad to the powerful battleships of World War II to the changes in the world's navies as a result of the collapse of the world's Warsaw Pact.