Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 2018. — 332 p. Esta obra analiza las embarcaciones y la construcción naval a comienzos de la modernidad atendiendo a diversos factores que incidieron en el progreso de la navegación en los siglos XV y XVI. Entre otros, los avances tecnológicos, la experiencia y destreza marinera, las mejoras en las técnicas constructivas, las...
Routledge, 2024. — 140 p. This book presents a detailed assessment of the role of navies in the Korean War. It highlights that, despite being predominantly a land war, navies played a vital part. Moreover, the naval war was not solely a U.S. operation. Smaller navies from many countries made important contributions both in supporting the United States and carrying out...
Big Sky Publishing, 2023. — 540 p. HMAS Sydney was the pride of the fleet during the Second World War. A light cruiser and one of Australia’s main combat vessels. On the 19th November 1941, off the coast of Western Australia, The Sydney engaged in a fierce and bloody battle with the German raider Kormoran. Following this action, The Sydney failed to return to port. An extensive...
Routledge, 2024. — 159 p. This work is a close examination of the conditions surrounding and precipitating the last gasp of British naval hegemony and events which led to its demise. Great Britain undertook a massive naval building program in the late-1930s in order to deter aggression and secure dominance at sea against her nascent enemies, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. But...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. — 128 p. Now in its final resting place at the bottom of the Potomac River in Maryland, the U-Boat U-1105 is unique among German World War II submarines. Technologically innovative, it was the only U-Boat to conduct a wartime patrol while equipped with the snorkel, GHG Balkon passive sonar and a rubberized coating known as Alberich designed to...
Grub Street Publishing, 2021. — 288 p. Since the end of World War 2 the primary role of the Royal Navys Fleet Air Arm has been airborne power projection; the ability rapidly to respond to any trouble spot across the globe and to protect the interests of the United Kingdom and its partner nations. The principal tools in that response were the strike aircraft which took the...
Manchester University Press, 2016. — 314 p. Provides a new understanding of the Victorian engineering naval professions, and their rise within the British government and Royal Navy. The nineteenth-century Royal Navy was transformed from a fleet of sailing wooden walls into a steam powered machine. Britain’s warships were her first line of defence, and their transformation...
Air World, 2020. — 338 p. In 1948, Hawker Aircraft, faced with new jet projects that could not use their existing airfield at Langley, began the process of searching for alternative accommodation for their flight-testing requirements. It would, however, take three hard years before Dunsfold Aerodrome would be made available by a reluctant Air Ministry and the company was able...
Texas University Press, 2015. — 298 p. Facing an insurmountable deficit in resources compared to the Union navy, the Confederacy resorted to unorthodox forms of warfare to combat enemy forces. Perhaps the most energetic and effective torpedo corps and secret service company organized during the American Civil War, the Singer Secret Service Corps, led by Texan inventor and...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2007. — 224 p. The 200 years that separate the navy of Drake's day from that of Nelson were critical for the development of Britain's sea power, and the decade of the Commonwealth, of Cromwell's rule, is one of the turning points in the story. In the aftermath of a disastrous civil war and the execution of Charles I, the navy fought to defend the frail...
Yale University Press, 2022. — 416 p. The first account of Britain’s convoys during the Napoleonic Wars—showing how the protection of trade played a decisive role in victory. During the Napoleonic Wars thousands of merchant ships crisscrossed narrow seas and wide oceans, protected by Britain’s warships. These were wars of attrition and raw materials had to reach their shores...
Seaforth Publishing, 2015. — 351 p. This collection of thought-provoking essays by arguably the 20th century's greatest naval historian was first published in 1974, but their continuing relevance fully justifies this reprint. It opens with a stimulating reappraisal of the naval attack on the Dardanelles, the success of which would have made the disastrous Gallipoli land...
Osprey Publishing, 2009. — 320 p. "The fought like young Nelsons." The words of a schoolmaster, writing from aboard HMS Mars after the battle of Trafalgar, describing the valor of his pupils in the heat of battle. Made immortal by the novels of Patrick O'Brian, C. S. Forester and Alexander Kent, these boy sailors, alongside those of every other Royal Navy ship, had entered the...
Routledge, 2019. — 468 p. Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) made a significant contribution to British history by his work as a naval administrator, and he bequeathed to Magdalen College, Cambridge its greatest treasure – his library, a unique collection of 3,000 books and manuscripts, still preserved as he left it. There are 250 volumes of manuscripts and these NRS volumes published...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 152 p. This fast-paced narrative traces the emergence of the United States Navy as a global power from its birth during the American Revolution through to its current superpower status. The story highlights iconic moments of great drama pivotal to the nation's fortunes: John Paul Jones' attacks on the British in the Revolution, the Barbary Wars,...
McFarland, 2022. — 498 p. In modern naval warfare, offensive and defensive mine operations and the ships that perform them often take a back seat to the more glamorous carrier strike groups, strategic deterrence patrols and anti-submarine operations. Despite their relatively small size and numbers, minecraft have enormous strategic and tactical value. With more than 200 photos,...
Sun Press, 2022. — 320 p. The Naval War in South African Waters, 1939-1945 provides a critical reappraisal of the naval war waged in South African waters during the Second World War. The book investigates this broad topic by focussing on several interrelated aspects such as: the wartime strategic importance of South African waters; the rival Axis and Allied naval strategies in...
Hanover Square Press, 2022. — 316 p. The enthralling story of the greatest Civil War battle at sea by the award-winning and bestselling historians Phil Keith and Tom Clavin. On June 19, 1864, just off the coast of France, one of the most dramatic naval battles in history took place. On a clear day with windswept skies, the dreaded Confederate raider Alabama faced the Union...
Casemate Publishers, 2018. — 212 p. A journey into the golden age of naval history, when these floating powerhouses ruled the waves. The battleship was the ultimate embodiment of naval power during the latter stages of the British Empire, with the Royal Navy the first to build the dreadnought battleship in 1906. The new design, with a uniform main battery and steam turbines...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 352 p. The ocean is humanity's largest battlefield. Resting in its depths lie the lost ships of war, spanning the totality of human history. Many wrecks are nameless, others from more recent times are remembered, honored even, as are the battles that claimed them, like Actium, Trafalgar, Tsushima, Jutland, Pearl Harbor, and Midway. Underwater...
Free Press, 2004. — 255 p. In June 1863, just days before the epic clash at Gettysburg ended the last rebel land invasion of the North, a small party of the Confederate Navy mounted a devastating series of raids on the New England coast, culminating in a battle off Portland, Maine. Veteran author David W. Shaw brilliantly re-creates this almost forgotten chapter of the Civil...
Casemate, 2019. — 272 p. On the four sides of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, serried tablets display the names of 660 honored commanders of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Most are those of generals and marshals of the French Army – but 26 of them are those of admirals, commanders of the fleets of Republican and Napoleonic France. In Napoleon's Admirals, Richard Humble...
Casemate, 2019. — 272 p. On the four sides of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, serried tablets display the names of 660 honored commanders of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Most are those of generals and marshals of the French Army – but 26 of them are those of admirals, commanders of the fleets of Republican and Napoleonic France. In Napoleon's Admirals, Richard Humble...
Seaforth Publishing, 2016. — 192 p. Second in "the most complete and authoritative set of books ever written on the color schemes used by the Kriegsmarine throughout World War II" (Great Models). This book completes a highly original and superbly illustrated two-volume survey of German naval camouflage and markings in the Nazi era. On first publication in 2012, the 1939-1941...
University of Michigan Press, 2013. — 352 p. In the early 20th century, the diesel-electric submarine made possible a new type of unrestricted naval warfare. Such brutal practices as targeting passenger, cargo, and hospital ships not only violated previous international agreements; they were targeted explicitly at civilians. A deviant form of warfare quickly became the norm. In...
United States Government Printing Office, 2005. — 410 p. The U.S. Naval War College, the Lessons of World War II, and Future Naval Warfare, 1945-1947, by Professor Hal M. Friedman, studies the contribution of the Naval War College, especially in the presidency of Admiral Raymond Spruance, to strategic thought during the first critical postwar years--that is, between the end of...
Thomas Dunne Books, 2009. — 255 p. Fighting Techniques of Naval Warfare analyzes the tactics, techniques, and weaponry of naval warfare from the ancient period to the modern day. Beginning with Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses III’s victory over the piratical Sea Peoples in 1190 BC, and coming up-to-date with the use of aircraft carriers and the latest computerized weapons technology,...
Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2016. — 59 p. In this report, the CSIS International Security Program analyzes Russian undersea intentions and capabilities in the near to mid-term and the ability of NATO and partner nations to respond effectively. The assessment identifies gaps in current Western organizations, capabilities, and posture and offers...
Praeger, 2009. — 257 p. Admiral Topp's memoirs reflect the faith, hopes, errors, and transformations in a man's life, indeed those of a whole generation whose understanding of history and ideology were held captive by the myth of power. The terrible annihilation in World War II and, even more so, the unimaginable destructive potential of nuclear weapons, have resulted in a...
Greenhill Books, 2007. — 350 p. Next to nothing has been written about the U-boat war in the Indian Ocean. This is the story of a forgotten campaign. The battle began in August 1943, when a German submarine arrived in the Malaysian harbour of Georgetown. In total, nearly fourty U-boats were assigned to penetrate the Indian Ocean, serving alongside troops of the occupying...
Nebraska University Press, 2014. — 151 p. The submarine was one of the most revolutionary weapons of World War I, inciting both terror and fascination for militaries and civilians alike. During the war, after U-boats sank the Lusitania and began daring attacks on shipping vessels off the East Coast, the American press dubbed these weapons “Hun Devil Boats,” “Sea Thugs,” and...
Seaforth Publishing, 2020. — 384 p. The Royal Navy's greatest contribution to the Allied success in World War II was undoubtedly the defeat of the U-boat menace in the North Atlantic, a victory on which all other European campaigns depended. The underwater threat was the most serious naval challenge of the war so it was not surprising that captured German submarine technology...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 1985. — 400 p. The U-boats constituted a serious threat to North American security and a major challenge to coastal and convoy defence. Hadley reveals the military and political impact on Canada of in-shore submarine warfare and vibrantly documents the successful German strategy of deploying daring long-range solo sorties to pin down the enemy...
Charles River Editors, 2018. — 144 p. Submarine warfare began tentatively during the American Civil War (though the Netherlands and England made small prototypes centuries earlier, and the American sergeant Ezra Lee piloted the one-man “Turtle” vainly against HMS Eagle near New York in 1776). Robert Whitehead's invention of the torpedo introduced the weapon later used most...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 135 p. For centuries inventors have been dreaming up schemes to allow people to submerge beneath the waves, stay a while then return again unharmed. The Resurgam was designed for this purpose, as a stealthy underwater weapon which was the brainchild of an eccentric inventor realised in iron, timber, coal and steam. The inventor was George William Garrett,...
Нидерланды и Северная Россия: Сборник научных статей. — 2003. — с. 299-324. Первые десятилетия становления и развития российского флота были тесно связаны с Голландией. Император Петр I явно отдавал предпочтение в морских делах аккуратным и трудолюбивым голландцам перед всеми другими европейскими нациями. Возможно, это было ещё связано с относительной несложной процедурой найма...
Naval Institute Press, 2022. — 455 p. This important new reference work details all those ships and vessels of the Royal Navy, large and small, which were lost by accident or enemy action, during the twentieth century, from the end of the World War, to the last years of the century. In all, the fates of over 2,000 ships and small craft are covered, from aircraft carriers and...
Harvard University Press, 1933. — 428 p. The introduction of the ironclad warship has never hitherto been made the subject of a monograph based on the archives of the British Admiralty or of the Navy Department at Washington. For documents concerning the period of chief importance in the introduction of ironclads, the British and French naval archives have been open to...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 420 p. — (Oxbow Monographs). This is an important study of the new types of warships which evolved in the navies of the Mediterranean in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, and of their use by Greeks, Phoenicians and Romans in the fleets and naval battles in the second and first centuries, culminating in the Battle of Aktion. The book includes a catalogue and...
Lexington Books, 2013. — 289 р. The twenty-first century has seen a sharp rise in privatization of the military, especially of logistics and security functions during the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The outbreak of Somali piracy that started in 2008 has prompted a similar revolution in maritime security. Private security companies began operating armed escort vessels...
Seaforth Publishing, 2021. — 1398 р. In 1859 the French navy was at a high point, having fought alongside the British in the Crimean War and developed a formidable fleet of fast wooden-hulled steam ships of the line. But in that very year the world’s navies had to start over again when French naval architect Dupuy de Lôme introduced the ironclad battleship. The French navy then...
Routledge, 2012. — 320 p. — (Naval Policy and History). This book provides a comprehensive survey of the development and operations of the navies of South-East Asia since the end of World War II. The navies of South-East Asia have rarely been the subject of systematic attention but, as the maritime strategic balance within Asia becomes more complex and open to challenge through...
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2023. — 270 p. The US Navy is the most formidable naval force in the world—yet, it seems ill-suited to face today’s challenges, especially the rise of China’s maritime power. What explains this paradox? Looking for answers, John Hanley explores how the navy has negotiated its place in the broad national security establishment, especially in the decades...
McFarland and Company Publishers, 2009. — 343 p. This work provides biographies of more than 500 men and women who have served as admiral, vice admiral, or rear admiral. While officers from the U.S., British, French and Japanese navies make up the bulk of the work, officers from 22 countries, including Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, and...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1982. — 278 p. This work aims to constitute an objective analysis of a German World War I naval combat commander within his proper context, by closely defining both the military-technical and military-political milieux in which Franz Hipper operated. The description of Hipper’s actions in the battles of Dogger Bank and Jutland and his handling...
Wagram Press, 2014. — 202 p. Includes 12 illustrations The name of Horatio Nelson still rings across the United Kingdom, and further afield, as a great and gallant naval hero worthy of remembrance through the ages, his statue still stands atop a lofty column in one of the busiest squares in the world. However Nelson was only one of many heroes that fought the French Navy during...
De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2018. — 637 p. — (Zeitalter der Weltkriege 19). Die Royal Navy und die Kaiserliche Marine erlebten seit dem letzten Drittel des 19. Jahrhunderts einen grundlegenden Wandel. Prägten anfangs Segelschiffhybride als Hauptkampfmittel die beiden Flotten, dominierten sie Großkampfschiffe vor Beginn des Ersten Weltkrieges. Aber auch U-Boote und Seeflugzeuge...
Yale University Press, 2022. — 336 р. Known as the "Father of the Nuclear Navy," Admiral Hyman George Rickover (1899–1986) remains an almost mythical figure in the United States Navy. A brilliant engineer with a ferocious will and combative personality, he oversaw the invention of the world's first practical nuclear power reactor. As important as the transition from sail to...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 1987. — 304 p. Louis XV's Navy presents a sharply detailed picture of an institution caught between its Colbertian legacy and contemporary challenges arising from overseas development and imperial rivalry. James Pritchard analyses the changes that occurred in naval organization and administration in the years between the end of the War of...
Вестник Дагестанского государственного университета. — 2022. — Том 37. Вып. 2. — с. 37-56. В статье освещается история развития русского мореплавания на Каспийском море. Начало этого процесса относится ко времени существования Древнерусского государства и связано с набегами русов на западное побережье Каспия. В начале XVIII в. особенно больших побед на побережье Каспийского...