Archive Results For: Other (Nineteenth C)
Review: ‘ Military Power and the Dutch Republic: War, trade, and the balance of power in Europe, 1648–1813 Military History of the Netherlands, vol. 2,’ by M. van Alphen, A. Lemmers, J. Hoffenaar and C. van der Spek. Leiden
This important book follows the first volume of the series, The Eighty Years War: From revolt to regular war, 1568–1648 of 2019, reviewed here in 2021. Written at the Netherlands Institute for Military History, it has been expertly translated by Paul Arblaster and Lee Preedy. The editorial board’s decision to shift the focus of the […] Read More
Filed under: Napoleonic War | Other (Twentieth C) | Other (Nineteenth C) | Other (Eighteenth C)
Subjects include: Administration | Battles & Tactics | Manpower & Life at Sea | Science & Exploration | Strategy & Diplomacy
The Flag-waving Names of Ocean Liners
Proper names not only serve as identifiers of people, places and other entities, they may also function as markers of personal and national identity. Eponymous and toponymous names of ships often function as metaphors or metonyms, signifying country or place of origin. During the first half of the twentieth century, ocean liner names became tropes […] Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C) | Other (Nineteenth C)
Subjects include: Merchant Marines | Miscellaneous
The Shipping Interests of the Beckwith Family of Colchester, 1816–1919
This article endeavours to construct the history of the Beckwith family and their various partners in a shipping business which, in various forms, operated out of the port of Colchester from 1816 to 1919. The family’s interests began with Joseph Beckwith, a master mariner on the coastal trade. Through his connections with shipowners, his sons […] Read More
Filed under: English Channel | North Sea | Other (Twentieth C) | Other (Nineteenth C)
Subjects include: Biography | Merchant Marines
Navalism and Imperial Culture in Spain: The origins and celebration of the Chincha Islands War (1834–1868)
The article examines how the Chincha Islands War led to the consolidation and socialization of Spanish navalism, understood as a language of legitimacy that sought the regeneration of the monarchy through the identification of its citizens with the Real Armada and the consolidation of the latter as a modern instrument of imperial power and international […] Read More
Filed under: Other (Nineteenth C) | Pacific
Subjects include: Navies | Strategy & Diplomacy
Book Review: ‘La Inteligencia en las Operaciones Navales de 1898: Consecuencias de una estrategia improvisada’ by J. Escrigas Rodríguez
This is the first book published from the Spanish side on the Intelligence operations of the Spanish–American War of 1898. To date, there have been works from the North American side, but none quite like that by Juan Escrigas, a sailor and a historian. Captain Escrigas is also a corresponding academic at the Academy of […] Read More
Filed under: Other (Nineteenth C)
Subjects include: Battles & Tactics | Miscellaneous
Book Review: ‘John Lenthall: The life of a naval constructor’ by S. C. Kinnaman
This generously scaled and thoroughly researched text by a fellow naval architect examines the life and career of John Lenthall 1807–82, a naval architect, chief constructor and latterly director of the United States Navy’s Bureau of Construction and Repair. Born in Washington DC to English immigrant parents, Lenthall’s architect father was killed a year later, […] Read More
Filed under: American Civil War | Other (Nineteenth C) | Other (Eighteenth C)
Subjects include: Biography | Shipbuilding & Design
Ruling the Wages: The Austrian Lloyd Steam Navigation Company and seafarers’ incomes in the Habsburg Empire, 1885–1914
One of the primary outcomes of the transition from sail to steam shipping was the profound change affecting maritime labour. The rise of new shipping companies played a pivotal role in reshaping the work onboard and the socio-economic position of maritime workers. In the Mediterranean, the case of the Austrian merchant marine, dominated by the […] Read More
Filed under: Mediterranean | Other (Twentieth C) | Other (Nineteenth C)
Subjects include: Manpower & Life at Sea | Merchant Marines
The Development of Merchant Ship Composite Hull Construction in Britain, 1850–1880
The composite construction of merchant ships, where a wooden skin was attached to iron frames, was a relatively short lived expedient. Iron frames provided a more capacious hold than wooden construction allowed and the wood planking allowed anti-fouling sheathing to be attached to the hull without a galvanic reaction that would destroy the iron. The […] Read More
Filed under: Other (Nineteenth C)
Subjects include: Shipbuilding & Design
Review:- ‘French Warships in the Age of Steam 1859–1914: Design, construction and fates’ by S. S. Roberts,
This outstanding book completes a trilogy, with the first two volumes of French Warships in the Age of Sail covering the periods 1626 to 1786 and 1786 to 1861 written jointly between Roberts and Rif Winfield. Anyone who has worked of the French navy in the age of steam and iron will be familiar with […] Read More
Filed under: Nineteenth Century | Other (Nineteenth C) | Twentieth Century
Subjects include: Navies | Shipbuilding & Design | Strategy & Diplomacy
From Rustic Fishing Boats to Steel Trawlers: The development of fishing vessels on the west coast of Sweden, 1850–1980
The article describes the development of the design and construction of fishing vessels on the Swedish west coast. This was initially locally based and gradually turned into a general international design similar for vessels of northern Europe. The article presents the major steps in this development. Local fishing boat design lasted until at least the […] Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C) | Other (Nineteenth C)
Subjects include: Shipbuilding & Design | Whaling & Fishing