Steaming Erratically Towards the Dreadnought: The British Navy in the Era of Gladstone and Disraeli

During the two decades after 1860 the British Navy was thrust into the machine age as the fruits of the Industrial Revolution impinged on the design and construction of ships of war with dramatic suddenness. Within the space of these twenty years the battlefleet was transformed from wooden walls armed with smoothbore muzzleloaders and dependent primarily upon the wind for motive power to steel-hulled armorclads, many times larger than their predecessors, boasting breechloading rifled cannon, and wholly reliant on steam for power, and these were only the most obvious innovations.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Beeler, John Francis

Contributors dc:contributor

• Arnstein, Walter L.

• History, European
• History, Modern

Identifier

(UMI)AAI9210741

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/72320