The Submarine Service 1900 1918

Author : Nicholas Lambert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000340808

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The Submarine Service, 1900–1918 by Nicholas Lambert Pdf

The year 2001 marks the centenary of the Royal Navy's submarine service. In the aftermath of the 2016 celebrations of the Battle of Jutland centenary, it is worth considering how the First World War at sea changed. This volume opens with an examination of the background to the Board of Admiralty's decision in 1900 to buy submarines, bringing to light documents that go a long way toward dispelling the myth that Britain's pre-1914 naval leaders were opposed to the development of the submarine as a major weapon. Indeed, the documents show that senior naval officers and influential civilians in Whitehall believed that the advent of the submarine would revolutionize naval warfare in a way that would bolster the Royal Navy's position as the world's predominant naval power. This edited selection of documents illustrates not only the Admiralty's thinking on the employment of the submarine between 1900 and 1918, it also charts the technical development of British submarines, and explains issues such as why the pioneer submariners came to regard themselves as an élite group within the Royal Navy - and were allowed to become the 'silent service'.

Author : Richard Compton-Hall
Publisher : Periscope Publishing Ltd.
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1904381219

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Submarines at War 1914-1918 by Richard Compton-Hall Pdf

This work is a landmark history of submarine warfare during World War I. An-ex submariner, the author captures the essence of what is what like to operate in these new and lethal craft. This periscope eye view introduces the reader to the great submarine commanders, the tactics they employed and the often-futile attempts made to sink them.

Author : Edwyn Gray
Publisher : Pen & Sword Military
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 1473853451

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British Submarines at War 1914 - 1918 by Edwyn Gray Pdf

* A book of proven success, authority and readability. * Appeal enhanced by fresh selection of illustrations. * Reprinted to mark the Centenary of the Royal Navy's Submarine Service.

Author : Antony Preston
Publisher : Conway Maritime Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015054259695

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The Royal Navy Submarine Service by Antony Preston Pdf

In 1901 Holland One, the Royal Navy's first submarine was launched. This is a day-by-day account of the history and achievements of the Royal Navy's submarines throughout their first 100 years of service. It chronologically analyzes separate classes of submarine.

Author : 'Klaxon',John Graham Bower
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1846779715

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The British Submarine Service by 'Klaxon',John Graham Bower Pdf

Fighting and combating the undersea war The author of this book has given his readers an overview of the British submarine and anti-submarine effort during the Great War principally by describing incidents that took place involving the sailors and airman involved. His interesting narrative is full of descriptions of vessels and aeroplanes, but particularly benefits from the inclusion of many first hand reports by the men who served in the battleships, fast patrol vessels, armed trawlers and flying boats engaged in this comparatively new kind of warfare. This book is an essential addition to the library of those interested in the First World War at sea. It is available in soft cover and hard cover with dust jacket. Leonaur hard covers are cloth bound with head and tail bands and feature gold foil embossed spines-a credit to any collection.

Author : Richard Compton-Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043293567

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Submarines and the War at Sea, 1914-18 by Richard Compton-Hall Pdf

Author : Captain John F. O'Connell
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781450236904

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Submarine Operational Effectiveness in the 20Th Century by Captain John F. O'Connell Pdf

A very new weapons system, the lurking submarine with its self-propelled torpedoes fired from ambush changed the complexion of naval warfare forever. Both warships and merchant ships were at risk. In 1914 U-boats demonstrated their capability to sink major warships. During 1915 they turned their attention to merchant ships and began to sink or capture them in wholesale lots. U-boats nearly won the First World War for Germany by forcing Great Britain into peace negotiations in late 1917. U-boats sank or captured over 6,100 ships during WW I. In April 1917 England had only six weeks grain supply left, and apparently had no adequate way to deal with the unrestricted U-boat offensive that Germany unleashed in February of that year. Submarine Operational Effectiveness in the 20th Century deals with the first strategic submarine campaign and its outcome. It goes on to outline submarine development by major nations during the 1920s and 1930s, including submarine use during the Spanish Civil War. It ends in 1939, on the eve of World War Two, a war in which two massive submarine campaigns would be waged: the first by Nazi Germany against the Allies; and the second by the United States against the Empire of Japan.

Author : Edwyn Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : UOM:39076005405910

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The Underwater War; Submarines, 1914-1918 by Edwyn Gray Pdf

This is the story of the development by the British of a primitive, unreliable and highly dangerous contraption, turning it into a formidable fighting machine. Edwyn Gray describes the inception and early days of the Submarine Service, its struggle against the naval bureaucracy and political machinations, its experiments with early submarines, the terrible disasters it suffered and the dramatic successes it achieved. Above all, he brings to life the men who took the risks in these fragile boats and whose courage and endurance enabled the to smash German shipping to help make the strategic blockade of Germany a success. --from back cover.

Author : Richard Compton-Hall
Publisher : Periscope Publishing Ltd.
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1904381197

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The Submarine Pioneers by Richard Compton-Hall Pdf

This witty and perceptive account of the early years of submarine development contains much new material and the lives of the forgotten pioneers of submarines. It includes many wonderful inventions and even more colourful inventors, but focuses primarily on John Philip Holland, the Irish-American genius who took submarine development out of the hands of lunatics and visionaries and turned it into a deadly weapon of war.

Author : Captain John F. O'Connell, USN (RET.)
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781462042616

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Submarine Operational Effectiveness in the 20th Century by Captain John F. O'Connell, USN (RET.) Pdf

The submarine emerged as a serious weapons system during the First World War (1914 - 1918). During that conflict Germany with its unrestricted submarine warfare campaign of 1917 nearly drove Great Britain to the negotiating table. Its U-boats sank 6,196 ships of 13,438,632 gross register tons. Despite post-war attempts to ban the submarine from warfare, it survived. Both Italy and Germany used submarines, covertly, during the Spanish Civil War (1936 - 1939). This book, Part Two of a series, discusses the use of submarines during World War Two (1939 - 1945) and their effectiveness. It focuses principally on two strategic submarine campaigns. The first is about German U-boats against British and neutral commerce. That campaign finally failed during the Battle of The Atlantic in 1943. The second deals with American submarines against Japanese shipping from Southeast Asia to the home islands, a campaign that successfully isolated Japan from its sources of raw materials and foodstuffs during 1944 and effectively defeated Japan.

Author : J. David Perkins,Dave Perkins
Publisher : Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:35007004873828

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Canada's Submariners, 1914-1923 by J. David Perkins,Dave Perkins Pdf

Der er ikke tidligere udgivet forskning vedrørende de første canadiske ubåde og disses indsats under den første verdenskrig. Bogen udkom under den store canadiske ubådsdebat i 1989 og må også ses i denne sammenhæng. Den canadiske marine er oprettet i 1910 og trådte ind i første verdenskrig i 1914 som en modstræbende ejer af to små ubåde. Hvorledes disse blev anskaffet, bemandet og udsendt på krigspatruljer beskrives her. Herefter beskrives krigsindsatsen med ubådsvåbnet, der udbygges i løbet af krigen, ligesom krigsindsatsen med canadisk ubådspersonel beskrives. Tabeller, sagsindeks og bibliografi.

Author : R. Raymond Walsh,Jean M. Walsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0948494859

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Roll of Honour, Royal Navy and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Casualties in the Submarine Service 1914-1918 by R. Raymond Walsh,Jean M. Walsh Pdf

Author : John Swinfield
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780750954792

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Sea Devils by John Swinfield Pdf

Sea Devils is a compelling account of pioneer submariners and their astonishing underwater contraptions. Some made perilous voyages. Others sank like stones. Craft were propelled by muscle-power or had steam engines with chimneys. Some had wheels to trundle along the seabed. Others were used as underwater aircraft carriers. Here John Swinfield traces the history of early submarines and the personalities who built and sailed them. From a plethora of madcap inventors emerged a bizarre machine that navies of the world reluctantly acquired but viewed with distaste. It matured into a weapon that would usurp the mighty battleship, which had for centuries enjoyed an unchallenged command of the oceans. In its long and perilous history the submarine became subject to fierce business, military and political shenanigans. It won eventual acceptance amidst the chaos and carnage of the First World War, in which pathfinder submariners achieved an extraordinarily high tally of five Victoria Crosses, Britain's highest military decoration. Sea Devils brims with daring characters and their unflinching determination to make hazardous underwater voyages: an immensely readable, entertaining and authoritative chronicle of low cunning, high politics, wondrous heroism and appalling tragedy.

Author : Duncan Redford
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1784530891

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The Submarine by Duncan Redford Pdf

"Underhand and damned un-English" was the view of submarines in Edwardian Britain. Yet by the 1960s the new nuclear powered submarines were seen by the Royal Navy as being the "hallmark of a first class navy." In this book Duncan Redford, a retired Royal Navy submarine officer, explores how - and why - attitudes to the submarine changed in Britain between 1900 and 1977. Using a wide array of previously unpublished sources, Redford sheds light on what the British thought about submarines, both their own and those that were used against them. Rather than providing an operational history of Britain's submarines, this book looks at naval and civilian conceptions of what submarine warfare was imagined to be like in the context of unrestricted submarine warfare, the world wars and the development of nuclear weaponry. With chapters on the coronation and jubilee reviews at Spithead, the submarine in novels and films, as well as coverage of the Royal Navy's and civilian views of submarines and submarine warfare this book gives a comprehensive view of the British regard - or lack of it - for the submarine. Through the examination of the British relationship with submarines since 1900 it is possible to see changing patterns in acceptance and tensions between different sub-cultures, both civil and maritime. Since 1900 the meaning constructed around submarines has changed as the submarine has progressed along a road from perdition as the weapon of the weaker power (and morally weaker power too) to a form of redemption as a major capital unit. This book will be essential for naval historians, students and those interested in aspects of submarine development and use.

Author : Alexander Howlett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000387612

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The Development of British Naval Aviation, 1914–1918 by Alexander Howlett Pdf

The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) revolutionized warfare at sea, on land, and in the air. This little-known naval aviation organization introduced and operationalized aircraft carrier strike, aerial anti-submarine warfare, strategic bombing, and the air defence of the British Isles more than 20 years before the outbreak of the Second World War. Traditionally marginalized in a literature dominated by the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Air Force, the RNAS and its innovative practitioners, nevertheless, shaped the fundamentals of air power and contributed significantly to the Allied victory in the First World War. The Development of British Naval Aviation utilizes archival documents and newly published research to resurrect the legacy of the RNAS and demonstrate its central role in Britain’s war effort.