The British Sailor : a social history of the lower deck

The British Sailor : a social history of the lower deck

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Auteur principal : Kemp Peter (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : The British Sailor : a social history of the lower deck / Peter Kemp
Publié : London : J.M. Dent & Sons , 1970
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIV-241 p.-[16] p. de pl.)
Sujets :
Grande-Bretagne > Royal Navy > Histoire
Marins > Grande-Bretagne
  • The Tudor seaman.
  • John Hawkins and Francis Drake.
  • The Spanish Armada, 1588.
  • Early voyages of discovery.
  • The First Stuart and the Commonwealth.
  • Decline of the Navy.
  • The First Dutch War, 1653-4.
  • Increases in pay and improvements in victualling.
  • Restoration of Charles II.
  • The Second Dutch War, 1665-7.
  • Samuel Pepys and his administrative reforms.
  • "Gentlemen" and "tarpaulin" captains.
  • William III and Queen Anne.
  • Complaints over division of prize money.
  • Legitimate pillage.
  • Victualling abuses.
  • Greenwich Hospital.
  • War of the Austrian Succession, 1740-4.
  • Vernon and the capture of Porto Bello.
  • Hospital ships at Cartagena.
  • The seaman's slop chest.
  • Flogging round the fleet.
  • The incidence of scurvy.
  • Influence of Admiral Anson.
  • Manning the Navy in 1750.
  • Typhus in the Fleet.
  • Prize money and recruitment.
  • The Seven Years War, 1756-63.
  • A new breed of captain.
  • James Lind and the cure for scurvy.
  • Formation of the Marine society.
  • The War of American Independance.
  • A setback in conditions on board.
  • Severity of punishment.
  • The divisional system.
  • Medicine and surgery in the Navy.
  • Yellow fever.
  • The revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.
  • Manning the Navy.
  • Press-gang and Quota Acts.
  • Nelson, Collingwood and St Vincent.
  • The mutinies at Spithead and the Nore.
  • Improvements in pay and victuals.
  • The problem of women on board.
  • First half of the nineteeth century.
  • A return to repression.
  • The incidence of punishment.
  • Allotment of pay.
  • Technological developments.
  • Second half of the nineteenth-century. The Royal Commission on Manning, 1859.
  • Pay, promotion and pensions.
  • Introduction of uniform.
  • The reforms of Admiral Sir John Fisher.
  • A new Navy.