Science, Utility and British Naval Technology, 1793–1815

Samuel Bentham and the Royal Dockyards

By:

Roger Morriss

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Routledge Studies in Modern British History

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During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the technology employed by the British navy changed not just the material resources of the British navy but the culture and performance of the royal dockyards. This book examines the role of the Inspector General of Naval Works, an Admiralty office occupied by Samuel Bentham between 1796 and 1807, which initiated a range of changes in dockyard technology by the construction of experimental vessels, the introduction of non-recoil armament, the reconstruction of Portsmouth yard, and the introduction of steam-powered engines to pump water, drive mass-production machinery and reprocess copper sheathing. While primarily about the technology, this book also examines the complementary changes in the industrial culture of the dockyards. For it was that change in culture which permitted the dockyards at the end of the Wars to maintain a fleet of unprecedented size and engage in warfare both with the United States of America and with Napoleonic Europe.

Author Biography:

Roger Morriss was a curator at the National Maritime Museum in London between 1979 and 1995. From 1997 he taught maritime and naval history at the University of Exeter and at the Greenwich Maritime Institute, University of Greenwich. Between 2000 and 2013, he was General Editor of the Navy Records Society. He has published eight other books on naval history.

Release date NZ

October 8th, 2020

Author

Roger Morriss

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

1 Halftones, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white

Pages

388

Series

Routledge Studies in Modern British History

ISBN-13

9780367472290

Product ID

33429245

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