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HMS Victory Pocket Manual 1805 - Admiral Nelson's Flagship At Trafalgar (Hardcover)
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HMS Victory Pocket Manual 1805 - Admiral Nelson's Flagship At Trafalgar (Hardcover)
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List price R285
Loot Price R259
Discovery Miles 2 590
You Save R26 (9%)
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This new addition to the best-selling Conway pocket-book range
features Admiral Nelson’s fully preserved flagship HMS Victory,
the most tangible symbol of the Royal Navy’s greatest battle off
Cape Trafalgar on October 21st 1805. In the HMS Victory Pocket
Manual, Peter Goodwin adopts a fresh approach to explain the
workings of the only surviving ‘line of battle’ ship of the
Napoleonic Wars. And, as Victory was engaged in battle during only
two per cent of her active service, the book also provides a
glimpse into life and work at sea during the other ninety-eight per
cent of the time. This volume presents answers to questions such
as: ‘What types of wood were used in building Victory?’;
‘What was Victory’s longest voyage?’; ‘How many shots were
fired from her guns at Trafalgar?’; ‘How many boats did Victory
carry?’; ‘What was prize money?’; ‘What was grog?’;
‘When did her career as a fighting ship end?’, and ‘How many
people visit Victory each year?’. It gives a full history of the
world's most famous warship through a highly accessible pocket-book
format. The book includes a pertinent and varied selection of
contemporary documents and records to explain the day-to-day
running of a three-decker Georgian warship. The leading historian
of the sailing man of war, Peter Goodwin was technical and
historical advisor to HMS Victory in Portsmouth for more than 20
years, and is in a unique position to investigate and interpret not
only the ship’s structure but also the essential aspects of
shipboard life: victualling, organisation, discipline, domestic
arrangements and medical care.
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