London and the Georgian Navy
Details:
- Author(s) MacDougall, Philip
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2013
- Pages 192pp; illus
- Publisher History Press
- Place Published Stroud
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Deals with the industrial-military complex in London which supported the Royal Navy dealing with its 'bureaucratic web' and 'practical aspects of supplying and manning the operational fleet and shipbuilding, repair and maintenance'. Structured in four parts: 1] 'The administrative hub' inc Admiralty; 2] 'Downriver naval industrial complex' - Limehouse and former London area of Kent; 3] 'The social dimension'; '4] Merchants, tradesmen and profiteers'. Includes profiles of London warship builders [pp84-9]