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.
By:
Peter Goodwin
Imprint: Osprey Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 180mm,
Width: 120mm,
Weight: 204g
ISBN: 9781472834065
ISBN 10: 1472834062
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 25 January 2018
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction 1 Building the Victory 2 Victory’s sea service 3 Entering the ship and the Georgian Navy 4 Manning the ship 5 Living in the ship 6 Conditions of service 7 The Royal Marines 8 Learning the ropes 9 Ship’s boats and boat work 10 Anchors aweigh 11 Victory’s ordnance 12 Training the great guns 13 The broadside of battle 14 ‘Boarders away’ 15 Trafalgar (Al-Tarafal-al Aghar) 16 Sawbones and sick berth 17 Nelson, hero of the Victory APPENDICES A1 The Victory’s sailing qualities A2 Watches, ship’s time and daily routine at sea A3 Quantity of shot and gunpowder expended at the Battle of Trafalgar A4 The Victory’s battle casualties killed in action List of primary sources Index
Peter Goodwin is widely acknowledged as one of the leading writers on the sailing warship. His published titles include the classic The Construction and Fitting of the Sailing Man of War (Conway, 1990), The Naval Cutter Alert (Conway 1992), Nelson's Ships (Conway 2002) and The Ships of Trafalgar (2005). Peter was Keeper and Curator of HMS Victory for some 20 years.
