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Book Review: Coal, Steam and Ships: Engineering, Enterprise and Empire on the Nineteenth-Century Seas

In places Gorrochatequi Santos’ narrative can read like a historic novel: ‘the red of the blood, the smell of the gunpowder and the pitiful moans of the wounded merged into a single substance in their minds...’ is an example (89). This, however, expands the accessibility of the book, as not just a strong academic publication, but also one that should attract the attention of the general reader. The book is the black and white printed version of the original colour publication in Spanish (2011), but the black and white reproductions of the images are of poor quality. The book would have benefitted from a general map showing the theatre of maritime conflict, those in England, Iberia and the wider Atlantic. Similarly, inter-text referencing with the illustrative material would have assisted geographical descriptions, as would the placement of images of maps closer to their respective narratives within chapters. These deficiencies are minor, however, when considering the importance of the publication as a whole. Luis Gorrochatequi Santos’ book achieves its goal and has commendably brought to light the much-neglected account of the events of 1589 within the context of the Anglo-Spanish War. In telling the story of the English Armada he has successfully redressed the distortion in history and filled a gap that provides greater context to subsequent events in European maritime history. This should certainly inspire new research and provoke new interpretations of existing histories.