Submarine Pioneer

Author : Richard Compton-Hall
Publisher : Periscope Publishing Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781904381198
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Submarine Pioneers written by Richard Compton-Hall and published by Periscope Publishing Ltd.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Naval History Division
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1140 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil War Naval Chronology 1861-1865 written by United States. Naval History Division and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the most significant events, eyewitness accounts of the Battle of Mobile and other historic events, and quotations relating to seapower in the Civil War.

Author : United States. Naval History Division
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships written by United States. Naval History Division and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Ragan
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 078674717X
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Submarine Warfare In The Civil War written by Mark Ragan and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people have heard of the Hunley, the experimental Confederate submarine that sank the USS Housatonic in a daring nighttime operation. Less well known, however, is that the Hunley was not alone under the waters of America during the Civil War. Both the Union and Confederacy built a wide and incredible array of vessels that could maneuver underwater, and many were put to use patrolling enemy waters. In Submarine Warfare in the Civil War, Mark Ragan, who spent years mining factory records and log books, brings this little-known history to the surface.The hardcover edition, Union and Confederate Submarine Warfare in the Civil War, was published to wide acclaim in 1999. For this new paperback edition, Ragan has revised and updated the text to include the full story of the Hunley's recovery and restoration.

Author : Duncan Redford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857718568
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Submarine written by Duncan Redford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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 : United States. Naval History Division
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Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historic Ship Exhibits in the United States written by United States. Naval History Division and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nicholas Lambert
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000341682
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Submarine Service, 1900–1918 written by Nicholas Lambert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ron Martini
Publisher : Ron Martini
ISBN 13 : 1932606149
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Submariner's Dictionary Or Submariner's Compendium of Terms & Tar's Handbook of Naval Verbiage and Retired Guy's Re-familiarization Manual written by Ron Martini and published by Ron Martini. This book was released on 2005 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Submariners are a tight knit group of men bound together by training and experience, and with a language all their own. That language is perhaps a little vulgar, but never intentionally demeaning, and a little irreverent but still worldly. This work is an attempt to preserve and explain some of these curious guys who so proudly wear a shiny metal pin that looks like a strange pair of fish on their left breast. This process of accumulating this new language begins in Boot Camp, and is added to with every change of duty station the sailor undergoes. It is heard aboard the boats and, unknowingly, by family members who can't understand terms like head, deck, and overhead, and who think SOS is a distress signal.

Author : Richard Compton-Hall
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Submarine Pioneers written by Richard Compton-Hall and published by Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Compton-Hall has combined meticulous research with his own experience as a submariner to provide an illuminating insight into the inventions and motivations of the early submarine pioneers.