Sheerness Naval Dockyard

Author : David T. Hughes
Publisher : Tempus Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780752427621
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sheerness Naval Dockyard written by David T. Hughes and published by Tempus Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 200 images recount the history of Sheerness Naval Dockyard and its garrison since their foundation in the mid-seventeenth century until the official closing ceremony in 1960, including impressive images of the venerable old hulk Cornwallis, a survivor from the time of the Napoleonic wars.

Author : Malcolm Millais
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415336239
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Structures written by Malcolm Millais and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text will appeal to anyone with an interest in buildings. Both interested layman and all types of building professional will benefit from the explanations given for the behaviour of structures as they form part of buildings. No prior knowledge is assumed and no mathematics is used.

Author : J. G. Coad
Publisher : Gower Publishing Company, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Royal Dockyards, 1690-1850 written by J. G. Coad and published by Gower Publishing Company, Limited. This book was released on 1989 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip MacDougall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000341763
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chatham Dockyard, 1815-1865 written by Philip MacDougall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Great Britain. Admiralty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1280 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Navy List written by Great Britain. Admiralty and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert George Hobbes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil service in Sheerness and Chatham dockyards. Home and foreign travel written by Robert George Hobbes and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Wynn
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473865298
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isle of Sheppey in the Great War written by Stephen Wynn and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Isle of Sheppey, although not a heavily populated area, played an extremely important part in Great Britains war effort on the home front throughout the four and a half years of the First World War. In doing so, Sheppey provided protection for the Thames Estuary, the River Medway and the naval shipyards at both Sheerness and Chatham. Its defensive emplacements largely responsible for acquiring the nickname locally of the 'Barbed Wire Island.' One of its main claims to fame in relation to the years of the First World War would have undoubtedly been in relation to aviation. The island had been a hive of activity in relation to flying since the beginning of the twentieth century, when the Royal Aero Club came to Leysdown, making it the first airfield in England. What became Eastchurch Aerodrome was where the first pilots of the Royal Naval Air Service were trained, making it the first military flying school in the country. The Short brothers also had an aircraft factory at Eastchurch where they designed and built their own aircraft, some of which would be used during the First World War. The Isle of Sheppey also boasted another aircraft factory, which was situated at Shellbeach on the east coast of the island, an emergency landing strip at Harty on the south east side of the island, and a balloon station at Sheerness. The First World War certainly saw the Isle of Sheppey rise to the occasion and add to its long and illustrious military history. The part it played went a long way in enhancing the islands reputation of having a dogged determination to do what needed to be done for the greater good in the nations time of need.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hearings on the Proposed Reorganization of the Navy Department Before the Committee on Naval Affairs of the House of Representatives [December 16, 1909 to February 17, 1910] written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Clancy
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 144562897X
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isle of Sheppey Through Time written by John Clancy and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of Sheppey s towns and villages is steeped in history and heritage. The island was where British aviation was born and came of age. The former dockyard is now little more than an industrial estate and the riotous dockside area, Blue Town is today just a quiet backwater.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1118 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navy Department Appropriation Bill for 1931 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: