"Nemesis by Andrian G. Marshall." Topic

"From Homer right down to C.S Forester and Patrick O'Brian authors have turned to the isolated world of ships, as vehicles to tell a story, and in Nemesis all the elements are there. This however is not the story of men and their ships, this is the story of a ship and her men. Not unlike David Cordingly's treatment of HMS Bellerophon, it charts the illustrious career of the first iron hulled war steamer, a revolution in naval warfare at that date

Nemesis is a famous ship, at least if you know anything about the Opium (or China Wars). Most usually seen in the marvellous depiction of her trial by fire at Chuenpee by Duncan which adorns the cover. Though often mistaken for a Royal Navy HMS she was actually was built as one of a batch of iron hulled steam warships privately ordered for the EIC (East India Company). The commission was top secret, which was apt, as these secret weapons were destined for the great imperial private enterprise that was colonising vast swathes of the East…"

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