Descripción
The first major work in a generation to examine the shore-based infrastructure of the Royal Navy’s dockyards during the nineteenth century.
Fully illustrated with photographs, plans and drawings, this work is a historical and archaeological journey through the Royal Navy in the Victorian era.
It provides an excellent background and useful guide to the many surviving dockyard buildings of this fascinating period.
By the end of the Napoleonic wars, the shore-based facilities of the Royal Navy employed nearly 16,000 people in the UK and formed the greatest manufacturing complex in the world, a direct consequence of the Royal Navy’s role as Britain's first line of defence. The importance of the dockyards increased drastically throughout the nineteenth century, when many technological developments transformed the Royal Navy forever – culminating with the symbolic end of the Victorian naval era with the completion of hms Dreadnought in 1906.
The facilities at Portsmouth, Plymouth, Chatham, Portland and Sheerness, have closely guarded the secrets of the Royal Navy’s built heritage for many generations. This work, commissioned by English Heritage and heavily reliant on documentary evidence, provides a full and vivid account of the development of the dockyards, their infrastructure, supply and workings as the continuing introduction of new technology forged a revolution in ship design and construction. It has made some significant new discoveries and, when placed in the broader context of the Industrial Revolution and other comparable military sites, has contributed to our understanding of the national and international significance of what has survived.
Amongst all the iron and steel, full weight is given to the human aspect: not just the driving force of men like William Scamp and Colonel G T Greene – whose vision and flair for innovative workshops and pioneering constructional systems resulted in the construction of many buildings that exist to this day – but also to the many individuals who were employed in a whole range of tasks in the steam factories, workshops, mills and building slips.
This book will appeal to all readers with an interest in the Royal Navy during the age of steam, and to a wider audience of enthusiasts, industrial archaeologists and those visiting the surviving structures of the Victorian Navy.
EAN | 9780851779591Editor | Anova BooksAutor | D EVANSEstado | Sin existencias. Disponible a corto plazoAño de edición | 2004Número de edición | 1Páginas | 208Ilustraciones | drawings & photos b/nIdioma | englishEncuadernación | hardbackDimensiones | 25x30
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