Support for the Fleet. Architecture and engineering of the Royal Navy's bases, 1700-1914
Details:
- Author(s) Coad, Jonathan G
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2013
- Pages 450pp; illus
- Publisher English Heritage
- Place Published Swindon
Topics:
- Name Buildings: industrial
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Deals with the buildings, and their development, architecture, functions, of Royal Dockyards, engineering works, barracks, victualling yards, etc, both within Britain and overseas. Traces the impact of changing technologies as industrialisation gathered pace and as the Royal Navy converted from sail to steam