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Naval Development in the Century Nathaniel Barnaby 9781148825045 Books
Nathaniel Barnaby was Director of Naval Construction for the Royal Navy from 1872 to 1885. Despite retiring on grounds of ill health, he lived for another 30 years, maintaining a keen interest in naval architectural and naval affairs. Just after the turn of the century he wrote this book called Naval Development in the Century. In 21 chapters and 5 Appendices a great deal of material is covered though not at all in a historical narrative manner. In fact the range of topics covered is quite broad indeed. They include:A reflection on the morality of naval armament in the first chapter includes the words "The Author is not one of those who regard war as contrary to the teachings of the Prince of Peace. Lasting good is only evolved in this world through strife and bloodshed....Righteousness must come before clean hearted Peace. " These are sentiments that surely must be understood as accurately reflecting the tenor of the times.
There is a chapter that deals extensively with the watertight subdivision of ships, especially passenger ships and makes the case that adequate subdivision was only grudgingly provided by civil ship owners under pressure from Naval Architects but without the support of the government Board of Trade which wanted to interfere as little as possible with businessmen and their decisions taken in their enlightened self interest. There is also in this chapter the point of view taken that there is no point in having more than a half complement of life boats if the ship won't stay afloat long enough for them to be used. Which is, one supposes, true enough but that philosophy would be of little comfort to the folks on the Titanic which foundered just a few years after this book was written.
Another chapter compares the economics of building wood and iron warships. Then there are succeeding chapters on the early development of armored warships, developments in engines, screws, and boilers, guns, torpedoes and armor which will be of interest to the students of naval technical history.
Then follows a discussion of the increasing speed of ships, especially merchant steamships and then a chapter on the work of William Froude on ship resistance especially illuminated by lengthy quotation from Froude, who could explain the physical side of what he did with splendid clarity. This is followed by a chapter that covers the development of the Naval Architecture profession in Great Britain.
A short review of US naval development is followed by a chapter entitled British Naval Panics During the Century which makes clear Barnaby's point of view that these panics were based on gross exaggeration of foreign developments and systematic devaluation of British naval work, for which of course, Barnaby had considerable responsibility.
There are a couple of chapters considering the laws of war at sea with special emphasis on the potential role of armed merchant cruisers. It seems quaint to see how the author had confidence that in a war to come private property and neutral shipping rights would be respected and only contraband of war would be subject to seizure. Seeming even more archaic is the position of the US Department of State in the late 1850s that "The United States consider powerful navies and large standing armies, as permanent establishments, to be detrimental to national prosperity and dangerous to civil liberty. The expense of keeping them up is burdensome to the people; they are, in the opinion of this Government, in some degree a menace to peace among nations. A large force , ever ready to be devoted to the purposes of war, is a temptation to rush into it.". Hard to believe a current US government would harbor or even posses such beliefs! A different world to be sure and a different national culture.
One of the last chapters is a verbatim of a report to Parliament by the Admiralty Secretary in 1901 distinguished by its clarity and simplicity of description.
One interesting Appendix covers the loss of all British warships from 1803 to 1815 illustrating how many more ships were wrecked compared to lost to enemy action.
So all this may seem like, and really is, a meander through topics of interest to Nathaniel Barnaby but it must surely be fascinating to any student of the era. Of course, to someone not a student of the era, this may not be an ideal introduction to it and I would suggest some other works like those found on my reading list on the Victorian and Edwardian Royal Navy.
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Nathaniel Barnaby was Director of Naval Construction for the Royal Navy from 1872 to 1885. Despite retiring on grounds of ill health, he lived for another 30 years, maintaining a keen interest in naval architectural and naval affairs. Just after the turn of the century he wrote this book called Naval Development in the Century. In 21 chapters and 5 Appendices a great deal of material is covered though not at all in a historical narrative manner. In fact the range of topics covered is quite broad indeed. They include
A reflection on the morality of naval armament in the first chapter includes the words "The Author is not one of those who regard war as contrary to the teachings of the Prince of Peace. Lasting good is only evolved in this world through strife and bloodshed....Righteousness must come before clean hearted Peace. " These are sentiments that surely must be understood as accurately reflecting the tenor of the times.
There is a chapter that deals extensively with the watertight subdivision of ships, especially passenger ships and makes the case that adequate subdivision was only grudgingly provided by civil ship owners under pressure from Naval Architects but without the support of the government Board of Trade which wanted to interfere as little as possible with businessmen and their decisions taken in their enlightened self interest. There is also in this chapter the point of view taken that there is no point in having more than a half complement of life boats if the ship won't stay afloat long enough for them to be used. Which is, one supposes, true enough but that philosophy would be of little comfort to the folks on the Titanic which foundered just a few years after this book was written.
Another chapter compares the economics of building wood and iron warships. Then there are succeeding chapters on the early development of armored warships, developments in engines, screws, and boilers, guns, torpedoes and armor which will be of interest to the students of naval technical history.
Then follows a discussion of the increasing speed of ships, especially merchant steamships and then a chapter on the work of William Froude on ship resistance especially illuminated by lengthy quotation from Froude, who could explain the physical side of what he did with splendid clarity. This is followed by a chapter that covers the development of the Naval Architecture profession in Great Britain.
A short review of US naval development is followed by a chapter entitled British Naval Panics During the Century which makes clear Barnaby's point of view that these panics were based on gross exaggeration of foreign developments and systematic devaluation of British naval work, for which of course, Barnaby had considerable responsibility.
There are a couple of chapters considering the laws of war at sea with special emphasis on the potential role of armed merchant cruisers. It seems quaint to see how the author had confidence that in a war to come private property and neutral shipping rights would be respected and only contraband of war would be subject to seizure. Seeming even more archaic is the position of the US Department of State in the late 1850s that "The United States consider powerful navies and large standing armies, as permanent establishments, to be detrimental to national prosperity and dangerous to civil liberty. The expense of keeping them up is burdensome to the people; they are, in the opinion of this Government, in some degree a menace to peace among nations. A large force , ever ready to be devoted to the purposes of war, is a temptation to rush into it.". Hard to believe a current US government would harbor or even posses such beliefs! A different world to be sure and a different national culture.
One of the last chapters is a verbatim of a report to Parliament by the Admiralty Secretary in 1901 distinguished by its clarity and simplicity of description.
One interesting Appendix covers the loss of all British warships from 1803 to 1815 illustrating how many more ships were wrecked compared to lost to enemy action.
So all this may seem like, and really is, a meander through topics of interest to Nathaniel Barnaby but it must surely be fascinating to any student of the era. Of course, to someone not a student of the era, this may not be an ideal introduction to it and I would suggest some other works like those found on my reading list on the Victorian and Edwardian Royal Navy.
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