Books in the Navy Records Society Publications series

This is the first of three volumes detailing the history of the Fleet Air Arm during the Second World War. A wide range of official documents are used to enable the reader to appreciate the complexity of the operations and how the Royal Navy adapted to the use of air power in the Second World War.

The Mediterranean Fleet entered the 1930s looking back to the lessons of Jutland and the First World War but also seeking to incorporate new technologies, notably air power. Unfortunately in the depression years of the early 1930s there was a lack of funds to remedy deficiencies.

A Navy Records Society Publication.

This is a Navy Records Society book.

Brian Vale is a naval historian with degrees from Keele and KingΓÇÖs College London. A life-long member of the Society for Nautical Research and the Navy Records Society, he has long specialised in Anglo-South American maritime history. His books include Independence or Death! British sailors and Brazilian Independence, A Frigate of King George, The Audacious Admiral Cochrane and Cochrane in the Pacific: Fortune and Freedom in Spanish America.

Dealing with Anglo America Naval Relations, this title brings together documents from the period 1919-1939 which was dominated by a series of naval arms limitation and disarmament conferences.

A collection of naval court martial transcripts and related documents from the time of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. It offers an understanding of military jurisprudence in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and the Georgian and Regency criminal law in general.

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.

This selection of documents illustrates not only the Admiralty's thinking on the employment of the submarine between 1900 and 1918, it also charts the technical development of British submarines, and explains issues such as why the pioneer submariners came to regard themselves as an elite group.

During the French Revolutionary War the Channel Fleet played the crucial role of defending Britain from invasion. This text presents documents that reveal the evolution of the role of the Channel Fleet during the war and focuses on the blockade of Brest.

A collection of contemporary documents that throws light on the campaigns by the Royal Navy, in association with the army, on cities of the Spanish Empire in South America, beginning with the assault on Buenos Aires in 1806, by Sir Home Popham.

Sir James Somerville (1882-1949) was one of the great influences on the 20th-century British navy, both as a commander of fleets and a pioneer of radio and radar. This collection of papers reveals much about the man as well as the major naval operations in the Second World War.

Examines and illustrates the work of the last four officers to hold the post of naval attache in Berlin before the cataclysm of 1914, Captains Dumas, Heath, Watson and Henderson. This volume illustrates a fundamental dimension of the Anglo-German naval race before the First World War: the role of the navy's 'man on the spot' in Berlin.

Second of three volumes of the correspondence of George Brydges Rodney, this volume covers the admiral's life from the end of the Seven Years War in 1763 until August 1780. It also reveals the character of that man.

Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham was one of Britain's great sailors, a worthy successor to Nelson, whom he admired and many of whose qualities he displayed. This second volume of Cunningham's papers covers the period of his life. It includes official documents, but also many letters to his family and brother-officers that exhibit his feelings.

The ability to influence world events through control of seaborne trade was affected by 19th-century developments in economic theory, commercial organization and naval technology, and by the growing power of the United States. In consequence the international law of belligerent rights at sea was amended.

After three months of war the British admiralty realized that World War I would last a long time. The original contraband list was modified and the Royal Navy were charged with preventing Germany from receiving an enlarged list of goods. This text analyses the success of the British blockade.

The documents that comprise this volume deal with topics of interest to scholars of international relations, Anglo-American affairs, the U.S. Civil War and the slave trade. Other aspects include naval medicine, steam-era logistics and other elements of the Royal Navy's modernization pertaining to its materiel, personnel and administration.