Anson's Navy: Building a Fleet for Empire, 1744-1763 is useful for understanding naval power as an institution. The book covers admirals, officers and dockyards rather than reducing the story to battles. Its deployment maps show where ships operated and how forces of the line and frigates were distributed. Those visualizations make the logistics of maintaining a worldwide fleet easier to grasp.
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Anson's Navy as a guide to fleet logistics
Anson's Navy covers the admirals, ships, dockyards, deployments and logistical system behind an eighteenth-century world fleet.