Coast and Country book review: The Silent Admiral by S V Keeliher
The Silent Admiral: The life and times of Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Frederick William Richards GCB (30 November 1833 – 28 September 1912) by S V Keeliher.
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Sean Vincenzo Keeliher, the author of this book, has spent the majority of his working life in administration advising and supporting businesses improve their operational performance.
Aside from being a devoted family man and a much beloved grandfather to Hadyn and Nova he has a passion for naval history and social history, with a special interest in the administration of the Royal Navy during a period of the Victorian era referred to as the Pax Britannica.
The Silent Admiral: The Life and Times of Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Frederick William Richards, GCB recounts the life and times of the greatest naval administrator of the Victorian era, perhaps even the greatest that the Service has ever produced.
Sean attempts to take every reader on a journey through Sir Fredericks early life spent during a turbulent period in Irish History and then through the decades of the nineteenth century which would impose vast changes on the Royal Navy through imperial expansion, empire building and in ship rebuilding and ship armaments.
It concludes the nineteenth century with the immense rebuilding of British naval defences, ports, docks and of ships under the guidance of then First Naval Lord, Sir Frederick William Richards.
The Silent Admiral is published for every reader, no matter where, who has an interest in the period of the Pax Britannica and that of the Great Victorian Royal Navy.
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