Pen and Sword Books: Warships of the Napoleonic Era by Robert Gardiner

Warships of the Napoleonic Era (2 reviews)

Design, Development and Deployment

Robert Gardiner
Found in: Napoleonic Books
Naval: Wooden Walls,
All Seaforth Books
Hardback 168 pages
ISBN: 9781848321083

Published: 27 July 2011

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Between 1793 and 1815 two decades of unrelenting naval warfare raised the sailing man of war to the zenith of its effectiveness as a weapon of war. Every significant seapower was involved in this conflict, and at some point virtually all of them were arrayed against Great Britain. A large number of enemy warships were captured in battle, making them of interest to British artists, engravers and printmakers, while the Admiralty ordered accurate draughts to be made of many of these prizes. Consequently, for this era the ships of all navies, not just British, can be illustrated by an unprecedented variety of paintings, drawings, models or plans.rnrnThis book reproduces many of the best (and least familiar) images of the ships, chosen for their accuracy, detail and sheer visual power in an extra-large format that does full justice to the images themselves. These are backed by an authoritative text that looks at how the ships were used by the different navies, and explains the function and development of the apparently bewildering array of rates and types. It is a book that anyone with an interest in wooden warships will find both enlightening and a pleasure to peruse.

Beautifully illustrated. A worthwhile purchase for any naval historian during the Age of Sail or maritime libraries. This is a wonderful examination of the fighting ships that navigated the seas between 1793 and 1815,... [read full review]