The Line of battle : the sailing warship 1650-1840
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The Line of battle : the sailing warship 1650-1840
(Conway's history of the ship)
Conway Maritime Press, 1992
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
By the mid-17th century the principal characteristics of the sailing warship had been defined. Alongside this came the greater specialization of the fleets, the evolution of the frigate and the adaptation of different vessels for navy use. This book charts those developments.
Table of Contents
- The earliest Mediterranean oared ships
- the ancestry of the trireme
- the trireme
- Hellenistic oared warships
- fleets of the Early-Roman Empire
- fleets of the Byzantine Empire
- Mediterranean galley fleets of the Early-Middle Ages
- Mediterranean galley fleets of the Late-Middle Ages and Renaissance
- trading galleys
- the architecture and oar systems of the galley
- naval installations
- geographical factors affecting the use of galley fleets
- the Athenian navy in the fourth-century BC
- economics and logistics of galley fleets
- oar mechanics and oar power.
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