The transformation of British naval strategy : seapower and supply in Northern Europe, 1808-1812 /
After the Battle of Trafalgar, the navy continued to be the major arm of British strategy. Decades of practice and refinement had rendered it adept at executing operations - fighting battles, blockading and convoying - across the globe. And yet, as late as 1807, fleets were forced from their station...
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| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2012. |
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Table of Contents:
- List of Figures and Tables; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Europe in 1808; 2 Foreign Amusements or the British Lion on the Watch; 1 The Forgotten Theatre: Britain, Northern Europe and the Baltic Sea; 3 The size of the Baltic sailing navies, 1720-90; 1 Great Britain exports 1800-6 by region; 4 The price of hemp, 1790-1815; 2 'To keep a fleet above a fortnight': The Evolution of Naval Logistics during the Eighteenth Century; 3 The Challenges of the Baltic Sea; 5 The Baltic, 1808; 6 Entrances to the Baltic.
- 13 Spirits needed and delivered to the Baltic fleet, 1808-128 Logistics and Seapower, 1810-1812; 15 British volume of trade with northern Europe, 1806-14; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
- 7 The entrance of the Great Belt, surveyed 1807 by G.B. Salt4 The Administration of Power Projection; 8 The deployment of Henley ships, 1800-15; 9 Tonnage in the employment of the Transport Board, 1807-12; 10 The deployment of Henley shipping 1793-1815; 5 The First Year in the Baltic, 1808; 2 Victualling delivery, 7 June 1808; 3 Transports hired between 17 and 26 July 1808; 4 Victualling deliveries, 1808; 5 Victualling delivery, 13 June 1809; 6 Provisions to the Centaur from the Mary, August 1808; 7 Provisions to the Centaur from the British Volunteer.
- 8 Supplies on board the Triptolemus victualler9 Provisions at Flemish Roads, Gothenburg, in October 1808; 6 The Escalation of Seapower, 1809; 11 Water remaining on HMS Superb, 3 June
- 31 December 1808; 10 Provisions remaining on Baltic victuallers, December 1809; 7 The Navy, Reform and the British State; 12 Average time taken to procure tonnage, 1808-12; 11 Time taken to load and arrange a convoy, 1808-11; 13 Efficiency of victualling deliveries, 1808-12: bread; 12 Bread needed and delivered to the Baltic fleet, 1808-12; 14 Efficiency of victualling deliveries, 1808-12: spirits.