In Defence of Naval Supremacy 
Subtitle: Financial Limitation, Technological Innovation and British Naval Policy, 1889-1914
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 1993
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780415086745
First sentence: The early development of Britain as a major naval power was influenced strongly by geographical factors, which inclined her population to look to the sea for both economic gain and defence against invasion.