Chatham Dockyard, 1815-1865. The industrial transformation

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Mostly comprises transcriptions of original documents, largely held in Admiralty Papers in the National Archives and in the National Maritime Museum, detailing the industrial transformation of Chatham Royal Naval Dockyard - 'The purpose of this volume is to provide a more full understanding of the difficulties faced by the Dockyards during this period of far reaching change ... By concentrating on one naval dockyard and providing the documents relating to a whole series of reforms, this study is able to examine how the day to day running of a major centre of industrial production changed in the period 1815-1856'. Has sections: 1] '...shipbuilding and repair'; 2] 'Improving facilities'; 3] 'Manufacturing and the move to steam power'; 4] 'Storage, security and the workforce'; 5] 'Local management'; 6] 'Central management'. Also an appendix 'Ships and other vessels built at Chatham Royal Dockyard, 1815-1865'