Billy Ruffian : the Bellerephon and the downfall of Napoleon : the biography of a ship of the line, 1782-1836
Cordingly, David2004
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This is the story of the Bellerophon - a ship of the line known to her crew as the Billy Ruffian - from her birth in a small shipyard on the river Medway in 1782, a few years before the French Revolution, to her death, after service as a prison hulk, in a breaker's yard 54 years later.
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London : Bloomsbury, 2004.
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xii, 355 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), facsims. (some col.), maps, ports. (some col.) ; 20 cm.
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Originally published: 2003.Includes bibliographical references (p. 322-325) and index.
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9780747565444 (pbk)0747565449 (pbk)
Dewey class:
941'.073
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English
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178252
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