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The second in a projected set of five volumes dealing with Anglo America Naval Relations, this volume brings together documents from the period which was dominated by a series of naval arms limitation and disarmament conferences. The book also includes a section of documents that deal This collection of naval court martial transcripts and related documents from the time of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars contributes not only to our understanding of military jurisprudence in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries but also to our knowledge of Georgian and By the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the seven home dockyards of the British Royal Navy employed a workforce of nearly 16, 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 This seventh volume of Naval Miscellany contains documents which range in date from the late thirteenth century to the Korean War.

They illustrate the many different ways in which the naval forces of the crown have served the realm. Topics covered include the role of ships in campaigns against Seligmann August 28, During the course of the Anglo-German naval race, the British Admiralty found a regular flow of information on Germany's naval policy, on her warship construction and on the technical progress of her fleet to be absolutely vital.

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Volume VII 1st Edition. Halpern May 20, The Mediterranean Fleet entered the s looking back to the lessons of Jutland and the First World War but also seeking to incorporate new technologies, notably air power. A former barrister who became a distinguished writer on aspects of British naval history, and from a lecturer at the new Royal Naval War College at Greenwich, Sir Julian Corbett was one of the NRS's foremost early members, and edited several of the society's publications.

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The son of a London architect, he attended Marlborough College and graduated with a first-class degree in law from Trinity College, Cambridge. He abandoned the Bar after a few years to travel and write both fiction and non-fiction.

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His biography of Sir Francis Drake about whom he wrote two novels appeared in the English Men of Action series during His well-received Drake and the Tudor Navy , based on extensive archival sources and informed by his appreciation of the nexus between state policy and the deployment of naval power, appeared in Other volumes edited by Corbett were Fighting Instructions, — series vol. In , following publication of the second Spencer volume, he was awarded the Chesney gold medal by the Royal United Service Institution.

He also wrote influential pamphlets. Admiral Sir John Fisher, as First Sea Lord —10 , solicited Corbett's endorsement of a number of innovations, including the dreadnought and the battle cruiser.

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Corbett advised on naval policy during the First World War, was knighted in , and became the historian of the war's maritime conduct in his Naval Operations 3 vols. Herbert Richmond was perhaps the most brilliant naval officer of his generation. In he edited the society's vol. He was a close friend of Sir Julian Corbett, and took over Corbett's task of editing The Private papers of George, 2nd Earl Spencer , contributing vols 3 and 4 in vols 58 and Richmond entered the navy in and rose swiftly, though his well known tendency to offer critical advice to his senior officers, as well as publishing critical articles, limited his naval career.

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He was a moving spirit in the founding of the Naval Review in In he was promoted to Admiral at which point he retired. In addition to the society's volumes, Richmond had also written two fine studies: Marder, Portrait of an Admiral: Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond — Michael Lewis was a councillor and a vice-president of the NRS. He edited, with insight and humour, Sir William Henry Dillon's enjoyable and lengthy A Narrative of My Personal Adventures — that comprise Volumes 93 and 97 —56 of the society's publications.

In he became assistant head of the history and English department at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and in the Admiralty appointed him professor of history and English at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, in succession to Sir Geoffrey Callender. He held that post until his retirement in Initially a writer of fiction and light verse who contributed to Punch, Lewis from was a prolific and in many ways groundbreaking writer on naval history.

An obituary, with photograph, appeared in The Times 2 March , p.

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Christopher Lloyd took a notable part in the organisation of the society, becoming administrative Secretary in , then adding publications to his responsibilities in Between and he was full Secretary from to His first edited volume of five for the society was the second volume of the Keith papers vol. Perrin, the Admiralty Librarian. Lloyd completed the third volume vol. He also edited the fourth Miscellany volume in , the Memoir of James Trevenen, — vol.

He was then appointed a lecturer at the RNC Greenwich, where he taught until his retirement in In he was appointed professor of history. He was editor of the journal of the Society for Nautical Research in He also completed, with Jack Coulter, the third volume of Medicine and the Navy, — This last volume was a successor to the first two volumes produced by Surgeon Commander John Keevil.

Nicholas Rodger was honorary secretary of the society between and during which time he was an Assistant Keeper in the Public Record Office, where he started in In he was made Anderson fellow of the National Maritime Museum, created for him so that he could start the three-volume The Naval History of Britain.

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In he became a senior lecturer in history at the University of Exeter, and in was given a personal chair as professor of naval history. Rodger edited a Naval Miscellany volume vol. In his third book was published: The second volume, The Command of the Ocean —, was published in Professor Rodger is now working on the third volume. Professor Rodger has a D. In he was elected a fellow of the British Academy. Andrew Lambert was honorary secretary of the society from until and has been a member of council for many years.

He has edited one of the society's volumes vol.