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I'm gonna hijack to put in a plug for "The Guns Above" by Robin Bennis.
It's airships in the Napoleonic Era with great engineering details and battle scenes. I don't know why they stopped at two books, but the first one is a lot of fun.
Napoleonic high tech (for the day) warfare seems close enough to the topic for me. I cannot stress how committed "On Basilisk Station" is to translating jargon-heavy Royal Navy historical fiction into space.
Let me put it this way...
At one point, I was imagining the author giggling madly at 3 am as she calculated how much rattan you'd need to support a cannon on an airship's gundeck.
Enjoy