Dockyard Economy And Naval Power

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ... Since the above was written the company have taken the adjoining premises (7,500 yards) for iron ship building, having the London, North Western, and Great Western rails on the quays. G. K. ciover and This firm have an extensive shipbuilder, Liverpool, and r Private Graving Docks Ing establishment in Birkenhead, in a and Building Yard,, . ., __ T i Birkenhead. direct line with Messrs. Clayton, Laird, and Co.'s. The repairing yard, with every convenience, is on the Liverpool side of the Mersey, at 1, Baffinstreet, Queen's Graving Dock. Within the establishment are manufactured iron and steel masts, all kinds of ship ironwork, and every convenience for repairing ships in graving dock. The firm have been established since 1825, and have had considerable experience in the constant repairs of ships of all class of tonnage. The Egyptian Frigate, Schea Gehead, was built and lengthened bv this firm. The establishment at Birkenhead consists of three graving docks, which will accommodate about 5,000 tons of shipping at one time, and there is every facility on the premises for executing all kind of repairs in wood or iron. There is one iron ship nearly finished of 1,000 tons, and another of 1,200 tons nearly in frame. Since the establishment was opened in September, 1856, upwards of 490 vessels have been repaired, &c., in these graving docks, the tonnage of which amounts to 310,000 tons. The length of blocks for the accommodation of vessels for repairs is as under: -- No. 1.--Length of block 700 feet. No. 2. 280 feet. No. 3. 180 feet. Vessels of any size can be docked in the above docks. The river frontage is 500 feet, and the yard is nearly six acres. No. 1.--Large dock, 400ft. long, with 80ft. of...

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Recent work on the growth of British naval power during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has emphasised developments in the political, constitutional and financial infrastructure of the British state. Naval Power and British Culture, 1760-1850 takes these considerations one step further, and examines the relationship of administrative culture within government bureaucracy to contemporary perceptions of efficiency in the period 1760-1850. By administrative culture is meant the ideas, attitudes, structures, practices and mores of public employees. Inevitably these changed over time and this shift is examined as the naval departments passed through times of crisis and peace. Focusing on the transition in the culture of government employees in the naval establishments in London - in the Navy and Victualling Offices - as well as the victualling yard towns along the Thames and Medway, Naval Power and British Culture, 1760-1850 concerns itself with attitudes at all levels of the organisation. Yet it is concerned above all with those whose views and conduct are seldom reported, the clerks, artificers, secretaries and commissioners; those employees of government who lived in local communities and took their work experience back home with them. As such, this book illuminates not only the employees of government, but also the society which surrounded and impinged upon naval establishments, and the reciprocal nature of their attitudes and influences.

Founded in 1570, Chatham Dockyard quickly became one of the most important naval yards for the repair and building of warships, maintaining a pre-eminent position for the next 400 years. Located on the River Medway, in all, the yard was responsible for the construction of over 500 warships, these ranging from simple naval pinnaces through to first-rates that fought at Trafalgar, and concluding with the hunter-killer submarines of the nuclear age. In this detailed new history of the yard from experienced local and maritime author Philip MacDougall, particular attention is given to the final two hundred years of the yard’s history, the artisans and labourers who worked there and the changing methods used in the construction of some of the finest warships to enter naval service. Coinciding with the dockyard’s seeking status as a World Heritage site, this fascinating history places Chatham firmly in its overall historical context.