ABSTRACT

This volume provides the first comprehensive history of education and training for officers of the Royal Navy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It covers the development of educational provision, from the first 1702 Order in Council appointing schoolmasters to serve in operational warships, to the laying of the foundation stone of the pre

chapter |8 pages

INTRODUCTION

chapter 5|19 pages

BRITANNIA AT DARTMOUTH, 1863–74

chapter 8|25 pages

THE FORTUNES OF HMS BRITANNIA 1874–1902