Send a Gunboat

Send a Gunboat:
The Victorian Navy and Supremacy at Sea, 1854–1904

Front Cover
Author Anthony Preston & John Major
Language English
Subject The role of the gunboat in British foreign policy in the second half of the 19th century
Publisher Conway Maritime Publishing
Publication date
1967 (2nd Ed. 2007)
Pages 208
ISBN 978-0-85177-923-2
OCLC 228664193
For a list of gunboats and gunvessels of the Royal Navy, see List of gunboats and gunvessels of the Royal Navy.

Send a Gunboat: The Victorian Navy and Supremacy at Sea, 1854–1904 by Antony Preston and John Major is a naval reference work on small warships of the Victorian Royal Navy, first published in 1967.

The second edition has a foreword by Professor Andrew Lambert which concludes that the contemporary relevance of this book has never been stronger.[1]

Despite the emergence of much new work since 1967, addressing almost every aspect of the subject ... the book remains the baseline for any study of naval force in British Imperial diplomacy between the Crimean War of 1854-56 and the Entente Cordiale of 1904.

—Professor Andrew Lambert[2]

References

  1. Warships International Fleet Review, July 2007
  2. Foreword to Send a Gunboat, 2nd edition.