British Frigate vs French Frigate 1793-1814
by Mark Lardas
a VERY short book review by Tony Gerard
This is one of the Osprey series, and like all books in the series it is well illustrated. The author is an architect and engineer and consequently spends quite a bit of time on the technical aspects of ship design, technical specifications, statistics and analysis. I was actually more interested in the differences in life for the men aboard the ships. There is a chapter, “The Combatants”, that deals with this, but not in any great depth. I found the discussions of differences in ship’s armament interesting. The most interesting chapter for me was “Combat”, in which the author describes four different historic frigate duels.
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