Your Navy as a Fighting Machine (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Fred T. Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331434742 ISBN 13: 9781331434740

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore the language and inner workings of the Navy in this concise, illustrated guide to naval terms, ranks, and life at sea. From screen and scuppers to windward and torpedo tubes, it clarifies the jargon that shapes how ships are built, commanded, and fought.

This edition presents a practical glossary and accessible explanations drawn from early 20th?century naval thinking. It also offers a clear, human view of what naval officers and sailors do, how promotion works, and what daily life at sea can look like. The result is a compact reference that helps readers understand old and new navy stories with confidence.

• Clear definitions of ships, weapons, and propulsion terms readers may encounter in historical and factual contexts


• Insights into naval rank structure, careers, pay, and duties


• Plain explanations of how battleships, torpedo boats, and other vessels function


• Context for how naval officers and enlisted personnel contributed to wartime efforts

Ideal for readers of military history, naval history, and anyone curious about how traditional navies operated and trained their crews.

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Excerpt from Your Navy as a Fighting Machine

What is a capital ship It is a vague sort of term that is frequently employed; nor is much further information usually to be gleaned than that it's a battleship.

If there be one thing more than another Of which the general public is supremely ignorant that thing is a battleship. They may know its guns, they may know its displacement, speed and various other de tails - the sort Of thing to be found in every explanatory footnote in the daily Press. But it is safe to wager that not one man in a million in all the British Empire knows exactly what a battleship is for. All have a vague idea, because it so chances that people think in Dreadnoughts and they all know that Dreadnoughts are somewhere in the top line of battleships.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1331434742
• ISBN 13: 9781331434740
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 123