ABSTRACT
The best short account of the shipping of all nations will be found in C. E. Fayle, Short History of the World's Shipping Industry (Allen & U., 1933), and that of Britain in Ralph Davis, The Rise of the English Shipping Industry (Macmillan, 1962). For the development of ships, see R. and R. C. Anderson, The Sailing Ship (Bonanza: BSC, 2nd edn 1969), and for warships, carrying the story down to the present day, D. Macintyre and B. W. Bathe, The Man of War (Methuen, 1970). The classic work on naval history is A. T. Mahan's Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783 (Methuen, n.i., cl and pb, 1965). J. R. Hale's Famous Sea Fights (Methuen, 1931) provides accounts of battles from Salamis to Jutland. A survey of the maritime nations of old - Egypt, Greece, Rome, etc. - is given in L. Casson's The Ancient Mariners (Gollancz, 1959), and a general history of navigation will be found in E. G. R. Taylor's The Haven-finding Art (Hollis & C., 1958).
