AOS Naval Non-Fiction - Biographical
Non-Fiction books which are biographies of specific officers or men, discussion of a particular officers tactics or battles, etc. during the Age of Sail.
![The Tragic Commodore](/images/stories/bookcovers/h/hoyt28_m.jpg)
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- By: Edwin P. Hoyt
- Title: The Tragic Commodore: The Story of Oliver Hazard Perry
- First Published by: Abelard-Schuman
- First Published Format: HC
- First Published Date: 1966
![Admiral Hawke](/images/stories/bookcovers/m/mackay1.jpg)
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- By: John Winton
- Title: Admiral Hawke: Britain's Greatest Forgotten Naval Commander
- Series: Leading the Modern Royal Navy
- First Published by: Oxford University Press
- First Published Format: HC
- First Published Date: 1 June 1965
![Rodney](/images/stories/bookcovers/h/hannay3.jpg)
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- By: David Hannay
Plagued with gout and gambling debts, George Brydges Rodney fought against his fate to become a successful and respected man.
- Title: Rodney
- First Published by: Macmillan and Co.
- First Published Place: London
- First Published Format: HC
- First Published Date: 1891
![Physician to the Fleet](/images/stories/bookcovers/uv/vale6.jpg)
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- By: Brian Vale & Griffith Edwards
Details Thomas Trotter's important contributions, as a naval surgeon and after, to the eradication of scurvy and typhus, to the study of addiction, and to improved health and safety in mines. Thomas Trotter, after studying medicine at Edinburgh, began his naval career as a surgeon's mate in 1779 and saw continuous service up to the peace of 1802, rising as a result of great abilities and the right patronage to become Physician to the Channel Fleet, and being present at the great battles of Dogger Bank in 1781 and the Glorious First of June in 1794. As Physician to the Channel Fleet, he was a major player in the conquest of scurvy and the control of typhus and smallpox in the navy. After the peace he settled in Newcastle where he produced pioneering work on alcoholism and neurosis, as a result of which he is regarded as one of the founders of the field of addiction studies. This book provides an intimate account of naval life in the great age of sail from the perspective of a surgeon, describing the impact of Enlightenment ideas and new medical techniques, and showing how improved health was a crucial factor in making possible the British fleet's great victories in this period.
- Title: Physician to the Fleet: The Life and Times of Thomas Trotter, 1760-1832
- First Published by: Boydell Press
- First Published Format: HC
- First Published Date: 20 January 2011
- ISBN-10: 1845114469
- ISBN-13: 978-1843836049
![Commanding Old Ironsides](/images/stories/bookcovers/w/wmfowler7.jpg)
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- By: William M. Fowler, Jr
Silas Talbot’s life illuminates his time―not with greater brightness than the lives of his more famous contemporaries, but with perhaps broader range and greater insight into the experiences and circumstances of a plain citizen of the new republic―a citizen whose bravery and energy helped to create it.
Silas Talbot was a farmer’s son who went to sea, learned the building trades, saved and invested his money wisely, married well several times, fought as a Rhode Island soldier in the Revolutionary War, became a lieutenant colonel, served with courage and competence, became a privateer and a prisoner-of-war in the conflict at sea, speculated in western lands, was elected to the New York State Legislature and the U.S. Congress, represented the interests of American sailors forced to serve in Britain’s navy, and finally achieved the rank of U.S. Navy captain and became the second commanding officer of the frigate USS Constitution.
- Title: Commanding Old Ironsides: The Life of Captain Silas Talbot
- First Published by: The Lyons Press
- First Published Place: US
- First Published Format: PB
- First Published Date: 7 May 2024
- ISBN-10: 1493077880
- ISBN-13: 978-1493077885
![Hornblower's Historical Shipmates](/images/stories/bookcovers/n/noel-smith1.jpg)
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- By: Heather Noel-Smith & Lorna M. Campbell
- Title: Hornblower's Historical Shipmates: The Young Gentlemen of Pellew's Indefatigable
- First Published by: Boydell Press
- First Published Format: HC
- First Published Date: 27 September 2016
- ISBN-10: 1783270993
- ISBN-13: 9781783270996