An Encyclopedia of Naval History

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An avid miniatures wargamer, Jane first published All the World's Fighting Ships (known as Jane's Fighting Ships after 1905) in 1898, which catalogued all the warships operated by each country, their armaments, and other details, as a supplement to a wargame he designed.

The Venetian navy did not expand further but the Ottoman navy grew to one of the largest in Europe, with a strength of around 60,000 tonnes in the 1720s. Christmas celebrations during the Second World War often had to be scaled down or adjusted as restrictions and shortages took their toll. has to be seen in the context of an ever-increasing volume of trading voyages, to Iceland, the Baltic ports, to the Basque coast and Portugal, and then the Newfoundland Banks. Rising timber costs and reduced naval ambitions in several European states in the wake of a series of British naval victories during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars limited further growth. The navy finally became ‘royal’ in name under Charles II, and it was of incalculable importance for its future self-identity that there was, deliberately, no discrimination against that religious dissent among seamen which had afforded the Cromwellian navy its special pugnacity.The total size of the European sailing navies was around 200,000 tonnes in 1650, around 750,000 tonnes in both 1700 and 1750, and almost 1. For questions on access or troubleshooting, please check our FAQs, and if you can''t find the answer there, please contact us. We sometimes make mistakes in our spelling, transcription or categorisation, or miss information out of our records. The east coast coal trade needed many ships, and Hanseatic competition in the shipment of English cloth to the processors in the Low Countries had to be countered.

The Naval Warrant Officer's Journal suggested that the book be on every ship, and in 1902 said that it should be available to every naval officer.It is a glimpse into a bygone world, captured shortly before the beginning of the Dreadnought naval arms race that foreshadowed the calamity of the First World War. There seems poetic justice that the first Victoria Cross was won by a non-commissioned seaman in the Crimean War. As a result past issues of Jane's are an irreplaceable source of contemporaneous perspectives on the world's navies. John Fredrick Thomas Jane (6 August 1865 - 8 March 1916) was the founding editor of reference books on warships (All the World's Fighting Ships) and aircraft (All the World's Airships) and the namesake of what would become Jane's Information Group and many of its publications. In 1546, Henry VIII's last year, the Navy Board was formed from the navy's principal officers: it was destined to serve as the executant of the fleet's construction, maintenance, and supply, the country's largest industrial undertaking until the 19th cent.

By this time the oared single sail ‘long ship’ or galley, still predominant in northern waters and the Mediterranean, was ceding place to wider-beamed and higher-sided vessels, furnished with fore and stern castles. The new Bourbon regime in Spain launched an ambitious Atlantic naval policy that made Spain into the third largest naval power in Europe for most of the century. Though included in the 1922 scrapping programme, Dreadnought had served her turn through her very launching and her specifications became common currency across the world.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Up to the late fifteenth century, permanent navies with ships built only for warfare were unimportant in Europe. There is also, necessarily, a vast organization for the administration and upkeep of these warships.

Wellington's logistical back-up had been prefigured, however modestly, by the first wintering of a British fleet in the Mediterranean in 1694–5; but few developments in Britain's Atlantic economy were more spectacular than the doubling of her exports to the Caribbean after 1808, following the Anglo-Spanish entente. At the start of the American Revolution (1775–83), members of the Continental Congress (see Continental Congress, First ) debated the value and necessity of establishing an official navy.

The standard fighting ship in the English navy became the galleon, a ship with two or three decks carrying its main batteries in the broadside and its lighter guns fore and aft. Sometimes we discover new information that changes what we know about an object, such as who made it or used it. After that, the Italian Wars (1494 –1559) stimulated the growth of the French and Spanish galley navies. There have been several books written about the Navy and the Civil War, most notably, Tony Gibbons 's Warships andNaval Battles of the Civil War (Popular Culture Ink, 1990), Ivan Musicant's Divided Waters: The Naval History of the Civil War (Book Sales, 2000), and Jayne E. The names of Hawkins, Pepys, and Barham are inseparable from its record, strained though the board's relations with the policy-making Board of Admiralty often were.