Glyn Williams’s book The Prize of All the Oceans remains invaluable, as does his edited collection of primary records, Documents Relating to Anson’s Voyage Round the World. Other essential sources included Daniel Baugh’s groundbreaking British Naval Administration in the Age of Walpole; Denver Brunsman’s illuminating history of impressment, The Evil Necessity; Brian Lavery’s brilliant studies of shipbuilding and naval life, among them The Arming and Fitting of English Ships of War, 1600–1815 and his edited collection of primary documents, Shipboard Life and Organisation, 1731–1815; and N. A.
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