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Between 1739 and 1742, Britain's major war effort against Spain was concentrated in the Caribbean. This book sets out to examine the problems involved in operating and administering the overseas naval bases at the heart of this effort. Drawing largely on unpublished archive material, it paints a detailed picture of the organisation and development of the yard facilities at Jamaica and English Harbour, as well as examining the problems of manning and supplying the ships stationed there. Making extensive use of ships' muster books, the author provides for the first time a quantitative assessment of the problems of sickness and desertion facing the commanders in the West Indies. The title of this book is taken from the two most common diseases suffered by the men stationed in the Caribbean.

Navy-yards and naval stations --- Military & Naval Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Naval Science - General --- Dockyards --- Naval bases --- Naval shipyards --- Naval stations --- Stations, Naval --- Military bases --- Coaling-stations --- History --- Great Britain. --- צי הבריטי --- England and Wales. --- Military Science

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With the Industrial Revolution came the challenge of modernisation and new working methods. This book will entighten readers to this effect in dockyards. By the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the seven home dockyards of the British Royal Navy employed a workforce of nearly 16,000 men and some women. On account of their size, dockyards add much to our understanding of developing social processes as they pioneered systems of recruitment, training and supervision of large-scale workforces. From 1815-1865 the make-up of those workforces changed with metal working skills replacing wood working skills as dockyards fully harnessed the use of steam and made the conversion from constructing ships of timber to those of iron. The impact on industrial relations and on the environment of the yards was enormous. Concentrating on the yard at Chatham, the book examines how the day-to-day running of a major centre of industrial production changed during this period of transition. The Admiralty decision to build at Chatham the Achilles, the first iron ship to be constructed in a royal dockyard, placed that yard at the forefront of technological change. Had Chatham failed to complete the task satisfactorily, the future of the royal dockyards might have been very different.

Navy-yards and naval stations --- History --- Chatham Dockyard (Great Britain) --- Chatham (Kent, England) --- History, Naval --- Admiralty. --- Chatham. --- Dockyards. --- Medway. --- Pax Britannica. --- Portsmouth. --- The Victorian Navy. --- The later Georgian Navy. --- Woolwich.

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Cities and towns --- -Excavations (Archaeology) --- -Urban archaeology --- -Archaeology, Urban --- Archaeology --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements --- Sociology, Urban --- History --- Great Britain --- Antiquities. --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Urban archaeology --- History. --- -History --- religious structures --- urban archaeology --- dockyards --- ramparts --- Civil engineering. Building industry --- Archeology --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1999 --- anno 1-499 --- Archaeology, Urban

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Nuclear aircraft carriers --- Navy-yards and naval stations --- Shipbuilding --- Shipbuilding industry --- Naval Science - General --- Military & Naval Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Naval construction --- Ship-building --- Ships --- Boatbuilding --- Naval architecture --- Shipyards --- Dockyards --- Naval bases --- Naval shipyards --- Naval stations --- Stations, Naval --- Military bases --- Coaling-stations --- Aircraft carriers, Nuclear --- Atomic aircraft carriers --- Nuclear-powered aircraft carriers --- Aircraft carriers --- Nuclear warships --- Design and construction --- Economic aspects --- Costs

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The reigns of Edward VI and Mary I, and the early years of Elizabeth I were vital times for naval administration and witnessed the apprenticeship of many who would lead the service later during Elizabeth's reign. This volume includes the extant Treasurer's and Victualler's accounts, with entries from the State Papers which augment the calendar summaries previously published. Documents are also printed for the first time from a variety of archives in Britain and abroad.

Great Britain. --- History --- Great Britain --- History, Naval --- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603). --- Cromwell. --- Deptford. --- Dockyards. --- Edward I. --- Elizabeth I. --- Erith. --- Greenwich. --- Henry VIII. --- Mary I. --- Portsmouth. --- Sir John Hawkins. --- Sir Thomas Clere. --- The Privy Council. --- The Tudor Navy. --- Victualling.