ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. Definition of myth as a way of perceiving reality was important and remains useful even for technology and the mid-Victorian Royal Navy. History did not wait for the Royal Navy to catch up and historians should not overlook the connection between the changing tenors of British foreign policy and the prevailing sense that British naval supremacy had somehow been relegated. Ironically the outbreak of civil war in America so completely consumed much of the attention of the White House, while the merest hint of aggression offered more by the British press than British foreign policy was likewise enough to keep the Warrior safely anchored in Portsmouth. Hence it did not take long if it was not simultaneous for the dread spectre of British intervention in the American Civil War to assume the shape of the Warrior.
