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How to Survive in the Georgian Navy

- A Sailor's Guide
Af: Bruno Pappalardo Engelsk Hardback

How to Survive in the Georgian Navy

- A Sailor's Guide
Af: Bruno Pappalardo Engelsk Hardback
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Rigidly organised and harshly disciplined, the Georgian Royal Navy was an orderly and efficient fighting force which played a major role in Great Britain’s wars of the 18th and early 19th centuries.

This guide explores what it was like to be a sailor in the Georgian Navy. Focusing on the period from 1714 to 1820, this concise book examines the Navy within its wider historical, national, organisational and military context, and reveals exactly what it took to survive a life in its service.

It looks at how a seaman could join the Royal Navy, including the notorious ''press gangs''; what was meant by ''learning the ropes''; and the severe punishments that could be levied for even minor misdemeanours as a result of the Articles of War. Military tactics, including manning the guns and tactics for fending off pirates are also revealed, as is the problem of maintaining a healthy diet at sea – and the steps that sailors themselves could take to avoid the dreaded scurvy.

Covering other fascinating topics as wide-ranging as exploration, mutiny, storms, shipwrecks, and women on board ships, this ‘Sailor’s Guide’ explores the lives of the Navy’s officers and sailors, using extracts from contemporary documents and writings to reconstruct their experiences in vivid detail.

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Rigidly organised and harshly disciplined, the Georgian Royal Navy was an orderly and efficient fighting force which played a major role in Great Britain’s wars of the 18th and early 19th centuries.

This guide explores what it was like to be a sailor in the Georgian Navy. Focusing on the period from 1714 to 1820, this concise book examines the Navy within its wider historical, national, organisational and military context, and reveals exactly what it took to survive a life in its service.

It looks at how a seaman could join the Royal Navy, including the notorious ''press gangs''; what was meant by ''learning the ropes''; and the severe punishments that could be levied for even minor misdemeanours as a result of the Articles of War. Military tactics, including manning the guns and tactics for fending off pirates are also revealed, as is the problem of maintaining a healthy diet at sea – and the steps that sailors themselves could take to avoid the dreaded scurvy.

Covering other fascinating topics as wide-ranging as exploration, mutiny, storms, shipwrecks, and women on board ships, this ‘Sailor’s Guide’ explores the lives of the Navy’s officers and sailors, using extracts from contemporary documents and writings to reconstruct their experiences in vivid detail.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 144
ISBN-13: 9781472830876
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1472830873
Kategori: Storbritannien
Udg. Dato: 21 feb 2019
Længde: 17mm
Bredde: 187mm
Højde: 127mm
Forlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato: 21 feb 2019
Forfatter(e): Bruno Pappalardo
Forfatter(e) Bruno Pappalardo

Kategori Storbritannien

ISBN-13 9781472830876

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 144

Udgave

Længde 17mm

Bredde 187mm

Højde 127mm

Udg. Dato 21 feb 2019

Oplagsdato 21 feb 2019

Forlag Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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