Published Resources Details Journal Article

Author
Preston, A.
Title
Creating an inshore navy: littoral warfare in days gone by
In
The Royal United Services Institute Journal
Imprint
vol. 145, no. 2, 36617, pp. 81-85
Description

Accession No.1675

Abstract

"The difficulties encountered by the Royal Navy in the Baltic and Black Sea campaigns of 1854 against Russia are well documented, but details of the response are less well known. The armoured floating batteries are also well documented, but they were only one solution to the problem of waging war against an enemy who refused to leave his fortified harbours. There is also the problem of contemporary public perceptions of the war, which assumed the Crimea was the primary objective. Nor have modern historians managed to penetrate the fog, being obsessed with army tribulations in the siege of Sevastopol…"