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The Bomb Vessel: Shore Bombardment Ships of the Age of Sail
Chris Ware Conway Maritime Press, London, 1994, 1= pp., ISBN 0-85177-631-0, L25 (Conway's Ship Types series)
Conway Maritime Press continues to dominate the maritime scene. The Bomb Vessel appears to be the fourth volume in their new series Conway's Ship Types. With the growth of maritime power in the latter half of the seventeenth century, the situation in the Mediterranean area was of continuing conflict between Christians and Muslims. The main European maritime states of Britain, Holland and France were continually being embarrassed by the audacity of the Barbary States of North Africa....