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This volume contains the papers given at the Naval Dockyards Society Conference held at the National Maritime Museum on 25th April 2015. The conference looked at how Naval Dockyards responded to the pressures of global warfare. Dr Roger Morriss's paper is on 'Innovation and Adaptation to Global War. Change in the Technological Culture of the Royal Dockyards 1793-1815'. It connects the relatively slow pace of change in the pre-war dockyards with resistance to innovation after war began. It shows how the lessons that were learned from the Industrial Revolution were applied. Global war demanded expansion and large-scale innovation which simply squashed traditional conservatism. Dr Catherine Beck's paper is 'Uncovering the Unrecorded: the Patronage of Artificers in the Royal Dockyards, 1778-1802'. Patronage was the system of reciprocal exchange that led to appointment, promotion and discharge in the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Royal Navy and within dockyard communities. Dr J. D. Davies's paper is on 'The Strange Life and Stranger Death of Milford Dockyard'. Using maps, paintings and photographs, it challenges the perception of Milford Dockyard as an insignificant affair overshadowed by the later Pembroke Dock and traces the history of the yard from its beginnings as a small, private building yard in the 1790s, through to its abandonment in 1814. Dr John F. Day writes about 'Securing an Ocean for an, Empire: British Naval Bases and the Eastern Seas (1784-1815).' It looks at how the British moved from having four overseas naval yards or bases, in 1793 with none supporting an eastern squadron, to having a further ten bases by 1815. He concludes that by 1815 Britain had secured the best anchorages and an Eastern Empire. The Eastern Sea remained a British lake for the rest of the century. John Harris's paper is 'Naval Dockyard at English Harbour, Antigua: Heroism or Logistics?'. Utilising maps and photographs it traces the development of the dockyard at English Harbour, Antigua between 1729 and 1889. Finally, there is a paper by Duncan Hawkins on 'Roger Stewart Beatson's Buildings at Portsmouth Dockyard, 1839-45'. Beatson was involved in the design or construction of five or more early iron buildings at Portsmouth. Ironically, of these five, the most successful were those conceived by civilian designers and manufacturers under Beatson's supervision, while the least successful was that designed principally by Beatson.

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  • Publication Date: November 14, 2020
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  • Print Length: 144 Pages
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