Steam Power and Sea Power: Coal, the Royal Navy, and the British Empire, c. 1870-1914 By Steven GrayEnglish | PDF | 2017 (2018 Edition) | 297 Pages | ISBN : 1137576413 | 5.3 MB
This book examines how the expansion of a steam-powered Royal Navy from the second half of the nineteenth century had wider ramifications across the British Empire. In particular, it considers how steam propulsion made vessels utterly dependent on a particular resource – coal – and its distribution around the world.