Tom Pocock

Britannia Rules the Waves

Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World, 1788-1857

By Peter Padfield

Andrew Taylor

On the Wrong Side of Progress

FitzRoy: The Remarkable Story of Darwin's Captain and the Invention of the Weather Forecast

By John and Mary Gribbin

Evolution's Captain: The Tragic Fate of Robert FitzRoy, the Man who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World

By Peter Nichols

Kenneth Rose

Life of Bryan

Royal Servent, Family Friend: The Life and Times of Naval Equerry Captain Sir Bryan Godfrey-Faussett RN, 1836-1945

By George Godfrey-Faussett

Simon Heffer

The Pride of the Fleet

The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815

By N A M Rodger

Nigel Jones

Rum, Sodomy and the Lash

The Line Upon a Wind: An Intimate History of the Last and Greatest War Fought at Sea Under Sail, 1793–1815

By Noel Mostert

Cochrane the Dauntless: The Life and Adventures of Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 1775–1860

By David Cordingly

Storm and Conquest: The Battle for the Indian Ocean, 1809

By Stephen Taylor

Gregor Dallas

Naval Gazing

Trafalgar and the Making of the English Hero

By Adam Nicolson