Books in the Navy Records Society Publications series

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.