Bibliographic Information Publisher: Oxford University Press Print Publication Date: 2007 Print ISBN-13: 9780195130751 Published online: 2007 Current Online Version: 2007 DOI: 10. This realization resulted in a long-term increase in the size of warships and made it uneconomical to use armed merchantmen in naval warfare. Since then, naval air power (including missiles) has been the preeminent weapon of the world’s fleets. Naval encyclopedia also goes through some civilian aspects (clippers, liners, oil platforms, naval tech in general) and battles/tactics as well. The sixteenth-century Portuguese navy, of which too little is known to quantify its size, was primarily developed for control of the sea route to India.

From then the scene of naval activity changed, and ships and fleets took upon themselves a new form, one fit for ocean sailing and fighting. The form will be sent to our Collections Management Team who will use it to improve our object records. Numerous additions over the years also led to a complete machinery overhaul, new steam turbines and propellers.These were more difficult to manœuvre, but they could carry bowmen and projectiles in their castles and were more suitable for boarding an enemy, even if oar-power remained the handiest means finally to position a warship. A large modern navy includes aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, frigates, submarines, minesweepers and minelayers, gunboats, and various types of support, supply, and repair ships, as well as naval bases and ports.

At this time the harnessing of steam propulsion and the use of screw propellers rendered sails obsolete, iron (and later steel) plating replaced timbers in the hulls and protective sheathing of ships, and rifle-barreled, breech-loading guns firing high-explosive shells greatly increased the range and destructive power of warship batteries.

King, or overlord, also in Denmark (1019) and Norway (1028), no English monarch had such distant dominions again until Charles II in the later 17th cent.

The critical phase in European naval history when France lost the initiative to the maritime powers. A Naval Encyclopdia: Comprising A Dictionary Of Nautical Words And Phrases; Biographical Notices, And Records Of Naval Officers; Special Articles Of Naval Art And Science, .The introduction of heavy guns able to damage ships at a distance stimulated the development of specialized, heavily built, sailing warships that could carry such guns, use them efficiently in combat, resist gunfire, and stay at sea during long periods of time. S. Navy had added hundreds of new ships and owned more than 70 percent of the world's total naval vessels of 1,000 tons (907 metric tons) or more. It soon became evident that the ship that was powerful enough to be the mainstay of the fighting fleet was too large and too expensive—and also too heavy and too slow—to serve those functions of sea power that required numerous armed ships of good speed.

Permanency was created by warships, dockyards, and cadres of leaders, which gradually became corps of officers. Total displacement (in 1,000 tonnes) of warships owned by state navies or, in the case of Spain, on long-term charter by the states. After that, the Italian Wars (1494 –1559) stimulated the growth of the French and Spanish galley navies. summons of all seafarers from Sussex to East Anglia to rescue at Dunkirk the only army the nation possessed, proclaim the importance of naval power for an island. Early sailing, gun-armed navies were developed primarily by states without strong mercantile marines: Portugal, France (Brittany), England, Denmark, and Sweden.

Because of a printer's limitation of no more than 400 pages for this trim size, the books were broken into two volumes, this first one containing the front matter and the navies of England, France, Germany, and Russia.