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Steering to Glory: A Day in the Life of a Ship of the Line (Hardcover)

by Nicholas Blake (Author)

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Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Chatham Publishing (14 Oct 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1861761775
ISBN-13: 978-1861761774
Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.6 x 3.8 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 538,833 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Dr Eric Grove, Navy News, December 2005

there is no better . . . way of finding out what it was like to be at sea in the Nelson era

Captain Peter Hore, Warships & International Fleet Review, January 2006

entertaining . . . set to become a classic of naval literature and an important resource for all future authors on the subject

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4.0 out of 5 stars Daily routine in a typical warship of Nelson's time., 15 Aug 2006

By	M. H. Evans (Cambs, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is an excellent book. Nicholas Blake has trawled from a huge body of contemporary documents and publications, and condensed it to give us a vivid detailed picture of life aboard the floating community in a warship of Nelson's navy. This book does for the typical battleship of the Georgian navy what Ronald Blythe's "Akenfield" (1969) did for the typical Suffolk village.

Through the device of a fictitious 74-gun ship of the line, which provides a framework into which are fitted real events from other ships, we are guided hour by hour through one typical night and day. From the quarterdeck to the hold, from the captain to the ordinary seamen and marines, we read about the daily routines of cleaning, feeding, work and leisure, games, quarrels, shenanigans and discipline, bureaucracy and paperwork.

There are very few mistakes. I would have liked to see modern scientific and medical names given, in parentheses, for the older names such as acescent, brimstone, nitre, Peruvian bark, vitriolic acid, etc.

With 87 pages of appendices, notes on archival sources and a bibliography, Blake's book could provide starting material for a dozen post-graduate theses on life in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary wars. But it is not itself a dry academic work: it brings to life a world that was largely unknown even to most Englishmen, two centuries ago.

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