Books by Sir John Knox Laughton

This volume contains documents that date from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. The three for the sixteenth century include English piracy against the Spaniards, a Scottish document about a ship getting under way and the taking of the Madre de Dios in 1592.

Professor Sir John Knox Laughton was instrumental in the creation of the modern study of naval history. This volume is an attempt to understand how the founding father of modern naval thought functioned. It stresses the contemporary influences that gave his effort direction and form.