# Warships and their story

Author: Fletcher, R. A.; Dixon, Charles, 1872-1934 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: History - British

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72817

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Warships+and+their+story+Fletcher&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

When did man first entrust himself afloat for purposes of war? and what was the type of vessel he employed? are questions which take us back almost to the earliest stages of historical human progress, concerning which all the knowledge of the antiquaries is but conjectural, a stage so remote that scientists have not yet determined how many thousands of years ago it existed. The earliest vessels thus employed must have been transports, and nothing else; but if employed as aids to aggression when the kings of the earth took counsel together and, impelled by avarice or a desire to assist in one another’s turbulent love affairs, or, for their own safety, convinced of the necessity of finding...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/warships-and-their-story-72817/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/warships-and-their-story-72817/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/warships-and-their-story-72817/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/warships-and-their-story-72817/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/warships-and-their-story-72817/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/warships-and-their-story-72817/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/warships-and-their-story-72817/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/warships-and-their-story-72817/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/warships-and-their-story-72817/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/warships-and-their-story-72817/chapters/2/index.md)