NELSON'S VICTORY - Hardcover

Peter Goodwin

 
9780851779881: NELSON'S VICTORY
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0851779883 ISBN 13: 9780851779881
Verlag: Conway Maritime Press Ltd, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

With the approach of the 200th anniversary of the Royal Navy's greatest battle off Cape Trafalgar on October 21st 1805, much attention will be given to our most tangible symbol of that most ferocious engagement, Nelson's fully preserved flagship HMS Victory. Much has been written about HMS Victory but it is often simplistic and romanticised or clearly aimed at the technical requirements of the naval historian. In Nelson's Victory: 101 Questions & Answers about HMS Victory, Nelson's Flagship at Trafalgar 1805, Peter Goodwin adopts a fresh approach to explain the workings of the only surviving 'line of battle' ship of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. As Victory was engaged in battle during only two per cent of her active service, Peter Goodwin also provides a glimpse into life and work at sea during the other ninety-eight per cent of the time. As technical and historical advisor to the ship in Portsmouth, he is in a unique position to investigate an interpret not only the ship's structure but also the essential aspects of shipboard life: victualling, organisation, discipline, domestic arrangements and medical care. In his role as Keeper and Curator of the ship, the autho

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Peter Goodwin is widely acknowledged as one of the leading writers on the sailing warship. His published titles include the classic The Construction and Fitting of the Sailing Man of War(Conway, 1990), The Naval

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Verlag
Conway Maritime Press Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0851779883
ISBN 13 
9780851779881
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
112
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