| Entry Text: | HABESCH, David. The Army's Navy: British Military Vessels and Their History Since Henry VIII. 240p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Chatham, 2001. ISBN: 1861761570.
The War Department Fleet began the war with seventy vessels and 240 civilian crew. It numbered some 1600 vessels by war's end. The war years are well covered in this wide-ranging history which also covers the Inland Water Transport RE. |
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