Andrew Lambert's Battleships in Transition covers 1815 to 1860, from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the launch of HMS Warrior. The book connects the design history of steam line-of-battle ships to the strategic and political decisions of the Crimean War. Britain needed steam battleships in more than one theatre but had too few completed ships to meet every demand. That shortage makes the transition from sail to steam a problem of strategy and procurement as well as technology.
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A guide to the steam battleship's emergence
Andrew Lambert's Battleships in Transition is recommended for understanding how fleets moved from the Napoleonic era toward steam battleships.