War at Sea 1756 - 1815
Covering the classic era of sailing ship warfare from the early 18th Century to the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, this book reveals how ships were built, sailed and fought in the years 1756 - 1815. Acclaimed naval artist Tony Gibbons illustrates every type of sailing warship from ships of the line, frigates and sloops to privateers' schooners, bomb ketches and xebecs.