Educating the Royal Navy: 18th and 19th Century Education for Officers

by Harry W. Dickinson

Overview

This volume provides the first comprehensive history of education and training for officers of the Royal Navy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It covers the development of educational provision, from the first 1702 Order in Council appointing schoolmasters to serve in operational warships, to the laying of the foundation stone of the pre

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134223824
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/25/2007
Series:	ISSN
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	532
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Harry W. Dickinson

Table of Contents

Introduction1. All at Sea: The Naval Schoolmaster 1702-18372. ‘A Sink of Abomination…’ The Portsmouth Naval Academy and the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth 1733-1837 3.Pitchforks and Professors: Educating the Young Officer 1837-1862 4.Inklings of a System: Continuing and Higher Education to 1869 5.Britannia at Dartmouth, 1863-1874 6.‘While Their Minds are Docile and Plastic…’ The Shadwell Report 1870 7. ‘As Much by Wisdom as by War…’ The Royal Naval College Greenwich 1870-1902 8.The Fortunes of HMS Britannia 1874-1902 9. ‘Engineers are not Gentlemen…’ Education and Training for Naval Engineers Conclusion