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Fifty Years in the Royal Navy Paperback – January 7, 2010

by Percy Scott (Author)

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

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382 pages
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English
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Nabu Press
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January 7, 2010
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7.44 x 0.79 x 9.69 inches
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1143069218
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978-1143069215
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Nabu Press (January 7, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 382 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1143069218
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1143069215
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.45 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.44 x 0.79 x 9.69 inches

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Outstanding Technical Naval History

Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2016

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If you enjoy technical naval history, this is a truly great read. The book reads like something written recently. Scott enjoyed an excellent command of the written English language. I read through it in a hurry and enjoyed every page.

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Johanna O

The Victorian Royal Navy and the politics, joys and discomforts are well covered here.

Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2015

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This is a really great review of a life in the old Royal Navy. A good story and a perfect reference book.

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Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2016

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I have just scanned but for the price you cannot go wrong. It's a very interesting naval battle and as far as personal accounts it should be valuable reading.

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Tetsu

The equivilant of Hyman Rickover in the art and science of delivering Naval shells on the target.

Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2015

The writings of Admiral Sir Percy Scott show the world that the Royal Navy contained its equivalent to the late USN admiral Hyman Rickover. Admiral Scott discusses his work from a young cadet in the old sailing Royal Navy through to the years of the First World War in an easy to read manner and takes time to explain his comments for the non-technical reader in great detail. I found the details and comments pro and con about the various ships he served in to be quite valuable. Just as valuable are his comments pro and con about various individuals with whom he came into contact and likewise, at some points what these people felt of him. His writing is, to me, balanced and useful. What is of even greater value is that he is describing men when he met them as junior officers or newly minted commanders and his comments about them are of great interest when one looks at their performance during the First World War. He talks of shooting trips with King Edward VII and gunnery exercises with sub-lieutenant HRH Prince George, Duke of York, in easy terms and one would think. honestly.

Admiral Scott goes on to discuss his many bids for improving the ability of the Royal Navy to function as a war-fighting organization instead of a seeming yachting club sailing around the coast of the UK and the national bordering the Mediterranean Sea. The results of his strenuous efforts after they are sent to the Admiralty are disappointing to see. In some cases his improvement would take years to reach the ships of the Royal Navy and in some　cases, never reached them at all with the result that the ships entered the First World War against Germany with a fleet that could barely hit what it was shooting at when it engaged German Navy vessels with superior sights, armor, ammunition and survivability that those shown by ships of the Royal Navy.

Admiral Scott also discusses his attempts at creating a permanent shore based school for the teaching and training of the Royal Navy`s gunnery personnel, both officer and rating. His comments as the school buildings were being built is an interesting view of Victorian society as most of the work on the base, later called Whale Island, was done by convict labour courtesy of Her Majesty's prisons. It was interesting to read that Admiral Scott thought that the prisoners had more pride in their work than regular contractors.

I highly recommend this book to those with an interest in the Royal Navy in the last thirty years of the 19th Century and the first two decades of the 20th Century. It is also a very useful social commentary of the governance of the Royal Navy and the efforts required to make it an efficient fighting element. Some of his observations might be pertinent today.

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Gaarghoile

A man swimming against the tide of ignorance in a navy which had no peers,

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 7, 2015

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A man swimming against the tide of ignorance in a navy which had no peers, yet just in time just before The First World War he succeeded in training up and creating a discipline of achievement in superlative gunnery making The Royal Navy a match for any other fleet in The World. He could have had it so easy he was a disciple in a navy without a discipline he took on the challenge and made The Royal Navy's gunnery of such a high standard it made them able to win two world wars. It was this commitment to gunnery which enabled The Battleship Warspite to predict and fire a shell which hit it's target travelling at nearly 40 miles per hour and almost over the horizon 32,000 yards away...............Thanks to Percy Scott

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Chris, fireside naval historian

Fifty Years in the Navy.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 5, 2016

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An excellent read in showing you how stuck in there ways the admiralty was on the possibility of the introduction of the fire control concept and the submarine. Good God no wonder we were in trouble in the early stages of World War One, having these dinosaurs running the Admiralty. Going back not even a century again "We know what is best for England". Why we didn't embrace these inventions ad if it didn't work fine, but to only have a hand full of ship's fitted with fire control, again in the years prior to World War Two we were again struggling, OK we were broke as they say after WW1 but the government of the day, chop this loose that reduce this and scrap that. Now in hind sight I find it so frustrating how the Royal Navy was chopped to bits, in history we only have to look at The Falklands Conflict how short of this that and another, there is a saying " He who ignores history is bound to repeat it".

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M. Dawson

The story is fine and maybe reading the book doesn't have these faults

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 24, 2015

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I dont know how books are transcribed for Kindles but this one has not been done very well! I'm ok with the chapter headings, but there seems to be a heading for practically every paragraph. This makes it hard work to read. The story is fine and maybe reading the book doesn't have these faults, but Ican only give it 2 stars.

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Kevin s.

Has important lesson

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 23, 2015

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Many insights to the navy and government. Some of the problems still with us today. Government is still moe concerned about how thing look rather than if they work at all. Housekeeping over gunnery. Main negative about book is formating. Seems like they just scanned a paper version and left in page numbers and headings in mid sentence.

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Jack Nicole

Excellent and widely used source for the period.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 29, 2016

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This book is excellent both as a source for the period and as an insight into the process of managing the Royal Navy during a particularly critical period. The writing is that of a Victorian giving his account during the 1920s, so to complain that the style is old-fashioned is rather to miss the point.

Despite some other reviews, I noted very few typos on conversion to Kindle and none that hindered understanding.

Ludicrously, by far the worst of these is the digital 'front cover', on screen as I type this, which gets the title of the book wrong!

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