Naval History

[Works dealing with the naval histories of Great Britain, France, Russia, United States of America]
(see also: Maritime History)

AUSTEN, H.C.M. Sea Fights and Corsairs of the Indian Ocean, being the history of Mauritius from 1715 to 1810. Port Louis, Mauritius: R.W. Brooks, 1934.

BARRATT, Glynn. The Russians and Australia. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1988.
[Volume 1: Russia and the South Pacific 1696-1840].

BARRATT, Glynn. The Russians Navy and Australia to 1825. Melbourne: Hawthorn Press, 1979.

BARRATT, Glynn. The Russians at Port Jackson 1814-1822. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1981.

BEAN, Susan S. Yankee India: American commercial and cultural encounters with India in the age of sail, 1784-1860. Salem, Mass: Peabody Essex Museum/Mapin Publishing/Prashant H. Fadia Foundation, 2001.

BLAKE, Nicholas, and LAWRENCE, Richard. The Illustrated Companion to Nelson's Navy. London: Chatham Publishing, 1999.

COLLEDGE, J.J. Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all the fighting ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th century to the present. London: Chatham, 2006 [Revised edition].

CLOWES, William Laird. The Royal Navy: a history from the earliest times to the present. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1897-1903. [7 vols.]

CORDINGLY, David. Heroines and Harlots: women at sea in the great age of sail. London: Macmillan, 2002.

ESTES, J. Worth. Naval Surgeon: life and death at sea in the age of sail. Canton, Mass.: Science History Publications. 1997.

GROCOTT, Terence. Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic eras. London: Chatham, c1997.

HEPPER, David J. British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail 1650-1859. Rotherfield, East Sussex: Jean Boudriot Publications, 1994.

HILL, Richard. The Prizes of War: the Napoleonic Prize System in the Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1815. Portsmouth: Royal Naval Museum Publications, 1998.

LAVERY, Brian. Nelson's Navy: the Ships, Men and Organisation 1793 -1815. London: Conway Maritime Press, 1989.

LINCOLN, Margarette. Representing the Royal Navy: British sea power 1750-1815. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002.

The Line of Battle: the sailing warship 1650-1840. (ed.) Robert Gardiner. London: Conway Maritime, 1992.

LOW, Charles Rathbone. History of the Indian Navy (1613-1863). Portsmouth: Royal Naval Museum, c1990 [Reprint: orig. publ. 1877].

LYON, David. The Sailing Navy List: all the ships of the Royal Navy - built, purchased and captured 1688-1860. London: Conway Maritime Press, 1993.

LYON, David and WINFIELD, Rif The Sail & Steam Navy List: all the ships of the Royal Navy 1815-1889. London: Chatham Publishing, 2004.

MARCUS, G. J. Heart of Oak: a survey of British sea power in the Georgian era. London: Oxford University Press, 1975.

McCRANIE, Kevin D. Admiral Lord Keith and the Naval War against Napoleon. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, c2006.

MORRISS, Roger. The Royal Dockyards during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1983.

Naval Warfare: an international encyclopedia (ed.) Spencer C. Tucker. Santa Barbra: ABC Clio, 2000 [3 vols].

PARKINSON, C. Northcote. Britannia Rules: the classic age of naval history, 1793-1815. Gloucester: Sutton, 1987.

POPHAM, Hugh. A Damned Cunning Fellow: the eventful life of Rear-Admiral Sir Home Popham, KCB, KCH, KM, FRS, 1762-1820. Tywardreath, Cornwall : Old Ferry Press, 1991.

RODGER, Nicholas. The Command of the Ocean: a naval history of Britain, 1649-1815. London: Allen Lane in association with the National Maritime Museum, 2004.

RODGER, N.A.M. The Wooden World: an anatomy of the Georgian navy. London: Collins, 1986.

TAYLOR, Stephen. Storm & Conquest: the battle for the Indian Ocean, 1809. London: Faber, 2007.

TILLEY, John A. The British Navy and the American Revolution. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, c1987.

WILLIS, Sam Fighting at Sea in the Eighteenth Century: the art of sailing warfare. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2008.

WINFIELD, Rif. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817: design, construction, careers and fates. London: Chatham Publishing, 2005.

WINFIELD, Rif. The 50-Gun Ship: a complete history. London: Chatham Publishing, 1997.

WOODMAN, Richard. The Victory of Seapower: winning the Napoleonic War, 1806-1814. London: Chatham, 1998.

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