Anson's Navy: Building a Fleet for Empire 1744-1763

by Brian Lavery

Despite a supreme belief, the Royal Navy of the early eighteenth century was becoming over-confident and outdated, and it had more than its share of disasters including the devastating sickness in Admiral Hosier's fleet in 1727; failure at Cartagena, and an embarrassing action off Toulon in 1744. Anson's great circumnavigation, though presented as a triumph, was achieved at huge cost in ships and lives. And in 1756 Admiral Byng was shot after failure...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399002880
• ISBN13: 9781399002882
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.9" x 11.5"