Gentlemen and Tarpaulins

Oxford University Press, 1991; ISBN 0-19-820263-6

 ‘[An] excellent study...a work of real scope and originality...it should be absorbed by anyone who takes an interest in seventeenth century England’ – Professor N A M Rodger in The Times Literary Supplement

 ‘A well written book based on wide research...Davies’ book does much to rehabilitate the Restoration navy’ – Professor Bernard Capp in The Mariner’s Mirror

 ‘History as it should be written, full of colour, replete with verified evidence, and bringing to vivid life the world of which it treats’ – Lloyd’s List