Ebook: Shield of Empire: the Royal Navy and Scotland

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Before the Union; 2. Sea Power and the Jacobites; 3. The Navy and the 'Forty-Five'; 4. Scottish Officers; 5. Naval Operations in Scotland; 6. Naval Recruitment in Scotland; 7. Nineteenth-century Neglect; 8. The First Scottish Bases; 9. The Grand Fleet and its Bases; 10. The First Submarine War; 11. Lean Years; 12. The Second World War in the North; 13. The Clyde Convoy Base; 14. Naval Training; 15. Cold War and Cod Wars; 16. The Nuclear Submarine Bases; Notes; Index of Ships; General Index.;The Royal Navy has always been seen as an English institution, despite a large Scottish contribution, from Admiral Duncan at Camperdown in 1797 to Andrew Cunningham in the Second World War. The Royal Navy's most dramatic effect on Scotland, aside from its role in the British Empire and European wars, was in suppressing the Jacobite campaigns from 1708 to 1746. This book breaks new ground in telling the stories of almost forgotten campaigns, such as the submarine war in the Firth of Forth in 1914-18. In two world wars, and since the 1960s, a large proportion of the Navy's power has been ba.