London and the Georgian Navy

Auteur

PHILIP MACDOUGALL has written extensively on both naval dockyards and the Medway Towns with a history of Chatham Dockyard. He is a founding member of the Naval Dockyards Society, closely linked with the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, and he has travelled and researched extensively visiting state-owned dockyards (both British and foreign naval yards) in Europe and the Americas. He has previously written A Century of Chatham and Chatham Past for The History Press. He lives in Chichester.

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At a time when the Royal Navy was the biggest and best in the world, Georgian London was the hub of this immense industrial-military complex, underpinning and securing a global trading empire that was entirely dependent on the navy for its existence.