Warships of the Napoleonic Era

by Gardiner, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781557509628
• ISBN10: 155750962X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Naval Inst Pr

Summary

Warships of the Napoleonic Era reproduces original plans of all the principal types of warship employed during the Napoleonic Wars, from the huge three-deckers which fought in the line of battle, down to gunboats and the often ignored support craft on which every dockyard depended.
This period is widely regarded as the apogee of the sailing man of war, which reached a degree of efficiency never previously attained. Every major seapower was involved in this conflict, and at some point virtually all of them were arrayed against Great Britain and many of the enemies' ships, taken in battle, were then drawn, ensuring that a representative selection of accurate draughts survives for all the main protagonists. Accompanying texts and captions describe the function and development of each of the apparently bewildering variety of rates.
For ship modellers, and historians of the sailing navy, this book is a reference work.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 6
The First Rate	p. 8
The Second Rate	p. 14
The 80-Gun Ship	p. 19
The 74-Gun Ship	p. 22
The 64-Gun Ship	p. 30
The 50-Gun Ship	p. 34
Frigates	p. 39
Post ships of 20 and 24 guns	p. 39
Frigates armed with 9pdrs	p. 41
Frigates armed with 12pdrs	p. 44
Frigates armed with 18pdrs	p. 45
Frigates armed with 24pdrs	p. 52
Sloops of War	p. 61
Gunboats and Gunbrigs	p. 70
Cutters and Schooners	p. 77
Bomb Vessels and Fireships	p. 81
Fireships	p. 84
Great Lakes Warships	p. 88
Service Craft	p. 92
France	p. 99
The French fleet	p. 101
Ship types and their roles	p. 102
French design rationale	p. 114
Spain	p. 118
The Spanish fleet	p. 120
The Netherlands	p. 127
Denmark-Norway	p. 134
Other European Navies	p. 143
Russia	p. 143
Portugal	p. 144
Sweden	p. 146
The United States of America	p. 148
Sources and Notes	p. 156
Index	p. 158
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