Description: This major new book traces for the first time the architectural and engineering works in the Royal Navys shore bases at home and overseas and the political imperatives and technologies that helped shape them up to the First World War. Based on detailed archival research, it concentrates on the remarkable legacy of surviving structures.
Brief description: Author, Robertsbridge.
Review Quotes: ... this book ... ought to be seriously considered not only by ship buffs, but also by anyone interested in the history of engineering. Almost every page contains something wonderful, from the unexpected abstract sculpture of an access staircase diagonally crossing the curved, stepped inner face of a dry dock to the flanged columns of the baker at Stonehouse, designed to allow grain bins to be formed by the slotting-in of boards.--John Harris "Fort, Volume 42, 2014"