When the Enterprise is seized by a hate-crazed Klingon commander, Captain Picard interrupts high-level negotiations aimed at freeing Federation prisoners of war to ally himself with his former Cardassian torturer
In celebration of one of science fiction's most beloved franchises, this updated edition of the acclaimed Ships of the Line hardcover collection now includes dozens of additional images brought together for the first time in book ...
The Ship of the Line takes the best models from the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich to tell the story of the evolution of the ship of the line, known as the capital ship and epitome of British sea power during its heyday from 1650 ...
For British naval operations, see Creswell, British Admirals, 120–77; Daniel A. Baugh, “Why Did Britain Lose Command ... UK, and Brookfield vt: Scolar Press, 1989), The Royal Navy in European Waters during the American Revolutionary War ...
These are captioned in depth, but many are also annotated to focus attention on interesting or unusual features, and the book weaves the pictures into an authoritative text, producing a unique form of technical history.
Captain Horatio Hornblower is newly in command of his first ship of the line, the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland, which he deems 'the ugliest and least desirable two-decker in the Navy List.
This book offers detailed coverage of the complex vessels that were the largest man-made structures produced in the pre-Industrial era.
Traces the influence of early ocean vessels on Starfleet ships and incorporates more than seventy-five additional images featured in the "Star Trek: Ships of the Line" calendar series.
This definitive work is a major step forward in the study of the sailing warship. For the first time, the development of the line-of-battle ship is described precisely, in terms...
Between 1793 and 1815 two decades of unrelenting naval warfare raised the sailing man of war to the zenith of its effectiveness as a weapon of war.
The Line of Battle: The Sailing Warship, 1650-1840