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The British Navy Book

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This work surveys the centuries-long development of British naval power, tracing ancient galleys and medieval fighting-ships through Tudor sea actions, age-of-sail battles and the transition to ironclads, modern battleships and submarines. It explains the evolution of naval gunnery, ship types, manning, uniforms and naval brigades, and includes accounts of wartime operations at sea during the Great War era, raids and countermeasures, and the emergence of naval aviation. Chapters combine technical explanation, historical episodes, and descriptive illustrations to provide a chronological, pedagogical account of maritime warfare and sea command.

Transcriber's Note:

Obvious punctuation errors were correced.

The text uses both warships and war-ships. This, and other varied hyphenation, was retained.

The text uses both Zeebrügge and Zeebrugge.

The remaining corrections made are listed below.

Page 6 and also on actual illustration near 192, the hyphen was removed from BLUE-JACKETS to reflect the many uses in the text.

Page 44, "Mont-joie's" changed to "Mont-Joie's" (of the Mont-Joie's passengers)

Page 105, "intollerable" changed to "intolerable" (too intolerable to suffer the)

Page 107, "ther" changed to "their" (written over to their)

Page 130, "Greite" changed to "Griete" (Dulle Griete or "Mad Marjery")

Page 172, "fforged" changed to "forged" (forged cases to be shot)

Page 182, "cassion" changed to "caisson" (caisson at least 17)

Page 238, illustration caption, "Blucher" changed to "Blücher" (fate of the Blücher in)

Page 245, "markmanship" changed to "marksmanship" (was the marksmanship of her)

Page 295, footnote 103, number of footnote added to citation. Footnote text: (Published in The Sphere)