The British Navy: Its Strength, Resources, and Administration, 4 tomasLongmans, Green, and Company, 1883 |
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Pagrindiniai terminai ir frazės
able seamen Admiral Admiral Superintendent Admiralty afloat appointed armoured cruisers Atalanta batteries Board of Admiralty boilers boys Brassey brigade British Captain Childers Coast Volunteers Coastguard colonies commission Committee consideration corps cost crews cruisers cruising dockyards drill ship duties efficiency employed engineers England enrolled estimates expenditure experience favour first-class fishermen fleet force foreign France Frederick Grey French French Navy Goschen Government gunboat gunnery guns harbour important increase instruction instructors ironclads labour large number lieutenants Lord Lord Clarence Paget Majesty's Majesty's ships maritime master ment mercantile marine merchant service Naval Artillery Volunteers naval officers Naval Volunteers navigating Navy necessary number of seamen opinion organisation Parliament pilotage ports practical present proposed question repairs Royal Naval Artillery Royal Naval Reserve sailing seamanship shipbuilding Sir Edward Reed Sir Spencer Robinson squadron stations steam tion tonnage tons torpedo training ships unarmoured United States Navy vessels
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