Author: KNIGHT, R.J.B.
Title: Portsmouth Dockyard Papers. 1774-1783: The American War.
Description: Portsmouth: City of Portsmouth, 1987. 0901559725. 1st edition. Portsmouth Record Series. "The Dockyard's archives, now in the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, are the prime record of what for long was Portsmouth's main industry..By the 1770's the Dockyard was already a large-scale undertaking with some2000 workers..we see how it worked to maintain the fleet under the demands and strains of the American War of Independence." 30cms x 22cms. Pp.lxv(intro)/196, 9 figure illustrations, illustrated endpapers. Black cloth, dustwrapper has removable clear protective wrap. VG/VG.

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