Titlebook: Steam Power and Sea Power; Coal, the Royal Navy Steven Gray Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 British Navy.Coa

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Managing the Navy’s Imperial Supplyinned the success of Britain’s naval coaling infrastructure. Indeed, by concluding with examples of the stresses and failures in the coaling systems of foreign navies, the chapter argues that Britain entered the twentieth century with the most secure infrastructure of any power.

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Epilogueo a fuel, the type of which Britain did not control a ready supply. In doing so, it shows how a shift to oil meant that Britain lost its advantage in terms of fuelling infrastructure and instead faced the same difficulties encountered by its rivals during the age of steam.

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2635-1633 rstanding of the connections and complexities of the BritishThis book examines how the expansion of a steam-powered Royal Navy from the second half of the nineteenth century had wider ramifications across the British Empire. In particular, it considers how steam propulsion made vessels utterly depen

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Introduction,coaling, a process accomplished largely by hand, necessitating that ships and their crews stopped more regularly at foreign stations. As such, sailors increasingly interacted with indigenous and settler populations.

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Investigating the Coal Questionated an enduring coaling knowledge. This was achieved through the sheer weight of evidence and data collected, thus reflecting a wider belief in the power and practical utility of information and knowledge.

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