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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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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