Condition Notes: Dust wrapper sunned at the spine and lightly edgeworn with a small price-sticker ghost to the upper panel. The contents complete, clean and tight.; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over matching pictorial boards; Measures 11�" x 10" (1.2 kg); pp 128; Index; In the Shipshape series; Contains: Black & white photographs; Tables; Cutaways; Frontispiece; 2-column text; Plan in folder (1); Appendices (2); || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #202733 ||.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

The 50-Gun Ship

Publisher

London: Chatham Publishing

Publication Date

1997

ISBN 10

1861760256

ISBN 13

9781861760258

Binding

Hardback in Dust Wrapper.

Illustrator

John McKay

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Good+

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By the end of the sailing era the 50-gun ship had become regarded as a hybrid, too small to stand in the line of battle, and lacking the speed and hardiness of the frigate, so it has often been dismissed as a naval architectural dinosaur left over from an earlier age. This book aims to reveal the crucial role of the 50-gun ship in the development of both the battleship and the frigate, and explains the enduring role which ensured the survival of the type into the 19th century. Charting its origins in the pre-Commonwealth frigates, the author follows the development of the type in the 18th century and its gradual transition from battlefleet to heavy cruiser role, highlighting its revival for the special conditions of colonial warfare during the American Revolution. Thereafter they were employed as peacetime flagships for distant stations, achieving final glory leading small craft in anti-invasion operations during the Napoleonic War. The Leopard is the subject of the cutaway drawings.

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Rif Winfield has been researching naval matters for 25 years and has been a frequent contributor to Jane's Fighting Ships. This is his first book.

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