Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 192 p. The ‘X’ stood for experimental, but it might equally have meant extraordinary, exotic, or extravagant, as this giant submarine attracted superlatives — the world’s largest, most heavily armed, and deepest diving submersible of the day. X.1 was a controversial project conceived behind the backs of politicians and would remain an unwanted...
Naval War College Press, 2010. - 87 p. - (Newport Papers). In Defeating the U-boat: Inventing Antisubmarine Warfare, Newport Paper, Jan. S. Breemer tells the story of the British Navy response to the German submarine threat during 1917-1918. His account of Germany's 'asymmetric' challenge (to use the contemporary term) to Britain's naval mastery holds important lessons for the...
New York: Wiley, 1889. — 288 p. A specialist ‘how to’ book detailing the methods used to protect vital ports and harbours up to the late 1880s by means of the fast-evolving weapons of submarines, mines and torpedoes. The author, a former Royal Engineers officer, goes into great technical detail on the specifics of mine casings, the quantities of explosives used, electrical...
Pen and Sword, 2008. — 144 p. This is a must-buy for the Royal Navy and Submarine enthusiast, being a complete directory of RN submarines from the outset to the present day. There is a wealth of detail on each class. Every entry contains the specification, launch dates of individual boats, details of evolving construction and armament and other salient information in a compact...
Seaforth Publishing, 2014. — 305 p. The part played in the Cold War by the Royal Navy’s submarines still retains a great degree of mystery and, in the traditions of the ‘Silent Service,’ remains largely shrouded in secrecy. Cold War Command brings us as close as is possible to the realities of commanding nuclear hunter-killer submarines, routinely tasked to hunt out and...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2010. — 439 p. Since the beginning of the Royal Navy Submarine Service in 1901, 173 submarines have been lost and in many circumstances with their entire crew. War inevitably takes a heavy toll: in World War Two alone – 341 officers and 2,801 ratings failed to return to harbor. The loss of personnel was roughly equivalent to the strength of the Submarine...
London: Frank Cass, 2003. — 203 p. — (Cass Series: Naval Policy and History). Britain's Anti-Submarine Capability, 1919-1939 is the first unified study of the development of Britain's anti-submarine capability between the armistice in 1919 and the onset of the second world German submarine attack on Britain's maritime trade in 1939. Well researched and yet accessibly written,...
Naval Institute Press, 2015. — 496 p. No Room for Mistakes is a thoroughly researched account of British and Allied submarine warfare in North European waters at the beginning of World War II. Haarr has compiled research from a wide range of primary sources to create one of the most readable, comprehensive accounts of early war submarine activities. With detailed, accurate maps...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 135 p. For centuries inventors have been dreaming up schemes to allow people to submerge beneath the waves, stay a while then return unharmed. The Resurgam was designed for this purpose, as a stealthy underwater weapon which was the brainchild of an eccentric inventor realized in iron, timber, coal, and steam. The inventor was George William Garrett, a...
London, UK: Mudlark, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2019. — 304 p. ; b & w illus., diagrams, maps. What’s it like to spend three months without sunlight, sharing what little space you have with over a hundred fellow crewmen and more firepower than all the bombs dropped in World War II combined? This memoir reveals the funny, challenging, one-of-a-kind experience that...
London: Arms and Armour Press, 1988. — 64 p. — (Warships Illustrated №11). — ISBN10: 0-85368-778-1; ISBN13: 978-0-85368-778-8. The book is a lot of black and white naval photos with paragraph (or multiple paragraphs) captions of each picture with information about the Soviet submarine or naval vessel. For its time it was a good photo reference. Only one picture for many...
London: Routledge, 2006. — 223 p. An essential new account of how anti-submarine warfare is conducted, with a focus on both historic and present-day operations. This new book shows how until 1944 U-boats operated as submersible torpedo craft which relied heavily on the surface for movement and charging their batteries. This pattern was repeated in WWII until Allied...
Tauris Academic Studies, 2010. — 332 p. Underhand and damned un-English' was the view of submarines in Edwardian Britain. However, by the 1960s new nuclear-powered submarines were seen by the Royal Navy as being the 'hallmark of a first-class navy'. This exciting new book explores the changing attitudes to the submarine in Britain from World War One to the age of nuclear...
Pen and Sword, 2008. — 224 p. The Malta Force submarines had the vital task of interrupting German and Italian convoys crossing the Mediterranean to resupply Rommel and his Army in North Africa. The outcome of the Desert War depended on this. Operations from the beleaguered island were hazardous both at sea and in port. The Naval Base was under constant air attack. Due to the...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2023. — 216 p. HMS Turbulent was a Royal Navy T-class submarine. From its launch in May 1941 to when it was lost at sea, along with its entire crew, in March 1943, it was responsible for the sinking of nearly 100,000 tons of enemy shipping. Besides the number of enemy vessels it sunk, HMS Turbulent has gone down in history for the attack on the Italian...
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