The text of this book originally appeared in the Mariner's Mirror, the journal of the Society for Nautical Research. From the first issue of the journal in 1911 until his death in 1948, Admiral Ballard wrote notes and articles on many periods and subjects of naval history from ancient Egypt to the First World War. The book is illustrated with more than 200 black and white photographs, plans, draughts and diagrams. Some come from Ballard's private collection, others from the definitive collections with which the Society for Nautical research is associated, and which are held at the National Maritime Museum...