NELSON'S VICTORY: 101 Questions and Answers About HMS "Victory", Nelson's Flagship at Trafalgar 1805 This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

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Title: NELSON'S VICTORY: 101 Questions and Answers About HMS "Victory", Nelson's Flagship at Trafalgar 1805
Publisher: Conway Maritime Press Ltd
Publication Date: 2004
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0851779883
ISBN 13: 9780851779881
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

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With the approach of the 200th anniversary of the Royal Navy's greatest battle off Cape Trafalgar on October 21st 1805, much attention will be given to our most tangible symbol of that most ferocious engagement, Nelson's fully preserved flagship HMS Victory. Much has been written about HMS Victory but it is often simplistic and romanticised or clearly aimed at the technical requirements of the naval historian. In Nelson's Victory: 101 Questions & Answers about HMS Victory, Nelson's Flagship at Trafalgar 1805, Peter Goodwin adopts a fresh approach to explain the workings of the only surviving 'line of battle' ship of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. As Victory was engaged in battle during only two per cent of her active service, Peter Goodwin also provides a glimpse into life and work at sea during the other ninety-eight per cent of the time. As technical and historical advisor to the ship in Portsmouth, he is in a unique position to investigate an interpret not only the ship's structure but also the essential aspects of shipboard life: victualling, organisation, discipline, domestic arrangements and medical care. In his role as Keeper and Curator of the ship, the autho

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Peter Goodwin is widely acknowledged as one of the leading writers on the sailing warship. His published titles include the classic The Construction and Fitting of the Sailing Man of War(Conway, 1990), The Naval

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