Transactions V

Transactions of the Naval Dockyards Society,

Volume 5, September 2009 ISBN 978-0-9553711-4-1

Transactions of the Inaugural, Second, Tenth and Eleventh Annual Conferences held 1996 and 2006 at the National Maritime Museum Greenwich, 1998 King’s College London and 2007in Valletta, Malta: Venice & Malta

Editor Ray Riley

Contents

Paper presented to the Naval Dockyards Society Inaugural Conference 1996: Sabotage is Suspected
Philip MacDougall Blame it on the Chartists. Three dockyard fires of 1840

Paper presented to the Naval Dockyards Society Second Annual Conference 1998: 'At the Ringing of the Bell': dockyards, management and workforces
Julian Gwyn Halifax Naval Yard before 1820

Papers presented to the Naval Dockyards Society Tenth Annual Conference 2006: Venice and British Dockyards to 1800
Susan Rose Galleys and round ships: Venetian and English attitudes to ship design and building in the sixteenth century
Martino Ferraro Bravo The Nautical School of Venice of 1739 and the English teachers. Navigation training in Venice: between seamanship and science

Papers presented to the Naval Dockyards Society Eleventh Annual Conference 2007: Malta: Dockyard, Strategic Pivot and Maritime Heritage Outlook
Jonathan Coad ‘To serve the Fleet in distant waters’: buildings of the Georgian Royal Navy's overseas bases
Henry Frendo Strategy, economics and politics: the naval dockyard in Malta and the Mediterranean
David Davies ‘The strongest island in the whole world’. Aspects of Anglo-Maltese naval relations in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Simon Mercieca ‘Beyond the capacity of a small island’. A review of unpublished research by W A Griffith on Maltese dockyards
Ann Coats Notes on Venice & Malta Conference discussions

Keywords Maritime History, Naval History, Naval Warfare, Navigation, Naval Heritage, British History, Social History, Dockyard History, Malta, Venice, Halifax, Chartism

Price £15.00 plus P&P