Warships and their story

Name: Warships and their story
Author: Fletcher, R. A.
Fletcher, R. A.
Shipbuilding; Warships
I have also to thank personally the Chief Librarian of the Colonial
Office for assistance in dealing with some of the canoes; various
officials of the British Museum for valuable suggestions they were
kind enough to offer; Mr. A. J. Dudgeon, M.Inst.N.A. and M.I.M.E., for
his kindness in again lending me his scrap-books; Mr. James A. Smith,
M.Inst.N.A., for revising a portion of the proofs; the Secretaries of
the Institution of Naval Architects and of the Institute of Marine
Engineers for again placing the libraries of those organisations at
my disposal; the Secretary of the Navy at Washington for illustrations
of vessels which achieved fame at the time of the American Civil
War; the Commissioners in this country of the Imperial Japanese Navy
for pictures of the early Japanese warships; the Hon. J. G. Jenkins,
formerly Agent-General in London for South Australia, for New Guinea
illustrations; Mr. Harry J. Palmer, of Paterson, N.J., for information
and assistance in regard to American ships; and many shipbuilders, both
in this country and abroad, for supplying details and illustrations of
the vessels they have constructed. I have also to thank Lord Dundonald
for his courtesy in lending me a picture of the _Rising Star_, probably
the first steam war vessel to be built in this country, which his
ancestor, the famous Admiral Cochrane, commanded in the service of
Chili.

On other pages will be found a list of the illustrations and the
sources whence they have been derived or the names of the gentlemen who
have been kind enough to supply them.

  R. A. FLETCHER.




CONTENTS


                                                        PAGE

  INTRODUCTION                                            XV

  CHAPTER

  1. FROM ANCIENT EGYPT TO THE INTRODUCTION OF
     ARTILLERY                                             1

  2. WAR CRAFT OF THE FAR WEST, CENTRAL AFRICA,
     THE FAR SOUTH, THE PACIFIC AND THE FAR
     EAST                                                 21

  3. THE INTRODUCTION OF ARTILLERY AND THE DEVELOPMENT
     OF WARSHIPS TO THE APPLICATION OF
     STEAM FOR NAVIGATION                                 39

  4. STEAM AND WARSHIPS                                   78

  5. IRON SHIPS OF WAR. FROM THE INTRODUCTION OF
     IRON ARMOUR TO BROADSIDE AND TURRET
     SHIPS                                               105

  6. IRON SHIPS OF WAR (_continued_)                     144

  7. ARMOURED SHIPS IN ACTION                            197

  8. BATTLESHIPS AND CRUISERS                            241

  9. GUNS, PROJECTILES, AND ARMOUR                       265

  10. WARSHIPS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY                  285

  INDEX                                                  333




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


  A Coming Type of Battleship (_Colour_)                  _Frontispiece_

  Greek Bireme                                         _Facing page_   6

  Greek War Galleys                                       ”     ”      6
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