Reading beyond D. K. Brown on early steam warships

Which books beyond D. K. Brown help with early steam warships?

Aidan Dodson's Before the Battlecruiser and Les Brown's Royal Navy Torpedo Vessels, 1870-1914.

For early steam-warship studies beyond D. K. Brown, the recommendations are Aidan Dodson's Before the Battlecruiser: The Big Cruiser in the World's Navies, 1865-1910 and Les Brown's Royal Navy Torpedo Vessels, 1870-1914. Dodson's book broadens the comparison across the world's large cruisers and traces the type toward the battlecruiser. Brown's study narrows the focus to British torpedo craft during the transition from Victorian experimentation to the prewar destroyer. The shelf-checking pause makes this a practical reading-guide moment rather than a general survey of the ships themselves.