Transactions of the Naval Dockyards Society (Volume 2, December 2006)

Transactions of the eighth annual conference held at The National Maritime Museum Greenwich April 2004, Gibraltar as a naval base ans dockyard.
Contents:
Gibraltar in naval strategy 1600 - 1783
Gibraltar, Tangier and the English Mediterranean fleet 1680 - 1690
Gibraltar: a tale of two sieges 1726 - 1727 and 1779 - 1783
Gibraltar: pivot of naval strategy in 1781
The victualling yard at Gibraltar and it's role in feeding the Royal Navyin the Mediterranean during the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars
The background to the establishment of a naval dockyard at Gibraltar following the Naval Defence Act of 1889
Disuniting the workforce: intensifying the dockyard labour crisis of 1941
Epilogue: Rosia water tanks, Gibraltar

Product Details
Publisher: The Naval Dockyard Society
Year of publication: 2006
Language: English
Paperback 87 pages
Dimensions: 28cm (l), 21.5cm (w), 0.7cm (d)