Send a Gunboat: The Victorian Navy and Supremacy at Sea, 1854–1904 by Antony Preston and John Major is a naval reference work on small warships of the Victorian Royal Navy, first published in 1967. The second edition has a foreword by Professor Andrew Lambert which concludes that the contemporary relevance of this book has never been stronger. References 1967 non-fiction books Books about the Royal Navy 20th-century history books