"Treason's Harbours" is the proceedings of the Naval Dockyards' Society's conference on 'Dockyards in Art, Literature and Film', available to readers worldwide for the first time. The fully illustrated and referenced volume includes five articles and two book reviews. Articles: J. D. Davies, 'The Dog in the Night-time: Dockyards in the Genre of Naval Historical Fiction', which examines the extent of the neglect and negative portrayal of dockyards within naval historical fiction, and suggests some possible reasons for it, with reference to C. S. Forester's Hornblower, Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey, Dickens, and others Justin Reay, 'All A-Sparkle with Gunflashes': The Bay of Rosas in Naval Literature', tells the story of Rosas, used by Jervis, Nelson, Collingwood and Pellew as a fleet rendezvous and victualing station, and identified by Napoleon as vital to his plans during the Peninsular War, and its place in naval literature as it inspired Frederick Marryat, C. S. Forester and Patrick O'Brian Celia Clark, 'Dockyards in Visual Art, Art in Dockyards: Celebrated as sites of national pride expressing the 'beauty of utility', pride in craft skills and foci of new artistic activity' examines why dockyards (naval shipyards in US parlance and arsenals in European languages) are depicted in visual art and why artistic activity arises in dockyards Duncan Hawkins with Caroline Butler and Andrew Skelton, 'The Iron Slip Cover Roofs of the Royal Dockyards 1844-1857', examines the most significant iron buildings constructed in the Royal Dockyards 1844-1848, the slip cover roofs, considers the origins of those built by Fox Henderson and by George Baker and Sons, and details the regime of centralised planning, project management and building design emerging under Godfrey Greene and his patronage of favoured contractors, in particular Fox Henderson (to 1856) and Grissell's Peter G. Goodwin, 'The Application and Scheme of Paintworks in British Men-of-War during the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries' is an appreciation of historical evidence and technical analysis of paint samples to draw conclusions about the internal and external appearance of ships of the British navy during the period 1780 to 1820 by the former Keeper and Curator of HMS Victory Book Reviews: Roger Knight Britain against Napoleon: The Organisation of Victory, 1793-1815 by Philip MacDougall; Jonathan Coad Support for the Fleet. Architecture and engineering of the Royal Navy's Bases 1700-1914 by Ann Coats

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• Publication Date: December 14, 2014
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