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Chatham Dockyard, 1815-1865 - The Industrial Transformation (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Chatham Dockyard, 1815-1865 - The Industrial Transformation (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Navy Records Society Publications
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By the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the seven home dockyards of the
British Royal Navy employed a workforce of nearly 16,000 men and
some women. On account of their size, dockyards add much to our
understanding of developing social processes as they pioneered
systems of recruitment, training and supervision of large-scale
workforces. From 1815-1865 the make-up of those workforces changed
with metal working skills replacing wood working skills as
dockyards fully harnessed the use of steam and made the conversion
from constructing ships of timber to those of iron. The impact on
industrial relations and on the environment of the yards was
enormous. Concentrating on the yard at Chatham, the book examines
how the day-to-day running of a major centre of industrial
production changed during this period of transition. The Admiralty
decision to build at Chatham the Achilles, the first iron ship to
be constructed in a royal dockyard, placed that yard at the
forefront of technological change. Had Chatham failed to complete
the task satisfactorily, the future of the royal dockyards might
have been very different.
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