The Royal Naval Air Service In The First World War

Author : David Hobbs
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1848323506
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Royal Navy's Air Service in the Great War written by David Hobbs and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a few short years after 1914 the Royal Navy practically invented naval air warfare, not only producing the first effective aircraft carriers, but also pioneering most of the techniques and tactics that made naval air power a reality. By 1918 the RN was so far ahead of other navies that a US Navy observer sent to study the British use of aircraft at sea concluded that any discussion of the subject must first consider their methods. Indeed, by the time the war ended the RN was training for a carrier-borne attack by torpedo-bombers on the German fleet in its bases over two decades before the first successful employment of this tactic, against the Italians at Taranto.Following two previously well-received histories of British naval aviation, David Hobbs here turns his attention to the operational and technical achievements of the Royal Naval Air Service, both at sea and ashore, from 1914 to 1918. Detailed explanations of operations, the technology that underpinned them and the people who carried them out bring into sharp focus a revolutionary period of development that changed naval warfare forever. Controversially, the RNAS was subsumed into the newly created Royal Air Force in 1918, so as the centenary of its extinction approaches, this book is a timely reminder of its true significance.

Author : John Abbatiello
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135989540
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anti-Submarine Warfare in World War I written by John Abbatiello and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating the employment of British aircraft against German submarines during the final years of the First World War, this new book places anti-submarine campaigns from the air in the wider history of the First World War. The Royal Naval Air Service invested heavily in aircraft of all types—aeroplanes, seaplanes, airships, and kite balloons—in order to counter the German U-boats. Under the Royal Air Force, the air campaign against U-boats continued uninterrupted. Aircraft bombed German U-boat bases in Flanders, conducted area and ‘hunting’ patrols around the coasts of Britain, and escorted merchant convoys to safety. Despite the fact that aircraft acting alone destroyed only one U-boat during the war, the overall contribution of naval aviation to foiling U-boat attacks was significant. Only five merchant vessels succumbed to submarine attack when convoyed by a combined air and surface escort during World War I. This book examines aircraft and weapons technology, aircrew training, and the aircraft production issues that shaped this campaign. Then, a close examination of anti-submarine operations—bombing, patrols, and escort—yields a significantly different judgment from existing interpretations of these operations. This study is the first to take an objective look at the writing and publication of the naval and air official histories as they told the story of naval aviation during the Great War. The author also examines the German view of aircraft effectiveness, through German actions, prisoner interrogations, official histories, and memoirs, to provide a comparative judgment. The conclusion closes with a brief narrative of post-war air anti-submarine developments and a summary of findings. Overall, the author concludes that despite the challenges of organization, training, and production the employment of aircraft against U-boats was largely successful during the Great War. This book will be of interest to historians of naval and air power history, as well as students of World War I and military history in general.

Author : Philip Jarrett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781473875005
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Royal Naval Air Service in the First World War written by Philip Jarrett and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harold Rosher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857063045
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book With the Flying Squadron written by Harold Rosher and published by . This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A war in the skies above the waves As early as 1908 the Royal Navy understood the potential for the use of aircraft in naval warfare. By 1914 the Royal Naval Air Service consisted of 93 aircraft, 6 airships, 2 balloons and 727 personnel. By 1918 when the RNAS was combined with the RAF it had nearly 3,000 aircraft and more than 55,000 personnel. Aircraft working in concert with the Royal Navy and against enemy shipping and coastal installations had come to stay. This interesting book looks at the RNAS from a much more personal perspective-that of one young navy pilot, Harold Rosher. The book tells the story of Rosher's war, based around Dover and engaged in patrolling over and across the English Channel and attacking enemy held coastal defences such as Zeebrugge, principally through letters to his family and provides vital insights into the First World War in the air as experienced by an early naval pilot. Available in softcover and hardcover with dust jacket

Author : C. P. O. Bartlett
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473815487
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Teeth of the Wind written by C. P. O. Bartlett and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So rapid have been the advances in the science of aeronautics since the end of the First World War that it requires a considerable feat of imagination to cast one's mind back over the comparatively short period of seventy years to the days when Flight Commander Bartlett of the Royal Naval Air Service was flying some of the world's first bombers over the Western Front.An equal adjustment for those more used to accounts of the nerve-chilling existence of bomber crews in the Second World War is called for when tuning in to the extra ordinarily happy-go-lucky atmosphere which seemed to prevail among these early pilots. Not for them the nail-biting tension as they head over the trenches - rather the schoolboy exuberance of a jolly outing.Philip Bartlett's account is a unique and fascinating record of a pilot's life in the dawn of aerial warfare and, as history, of the first use of the bomber in war, strangely, by the Navy's aircraft.Flying by day and night alone, without navigational aids, the author moves from attacks on the U-boat bases to bombing the German Gothas as they prepared to raid London, and then to the support of Haig's drive to the coast which ended in the mud of Passchendaele. The climax in March, 1918, is reached when the author's squadron finds itself directly in the path of Ludendorff's massive thrust, which broke the British Vth Army and nearly decided the War. Attacked by Richthofen's aces, No 5 Squadron RNAS flew continuous and desperate missions against the advancing troops from aerodomes which were over-run time after time. At a time when the life of a pilot was reckoned in weeks, the author flew 101 missions, enduring the rigours of flying without heating or oxygen, with hesitant engines, no parachutes and the attention of German fighters. Yet there is continual evidence of the pure joy of flying and wonder at the sheer beauty of the the sky.

Author : Brad King
Publisher : Howell Press
ISBN 13 : 9780951989951
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Royal Naval Air Service, 1912-1918 written by Brad King and published by Howell Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Edited by Barry Ketley; Colour artwork by David Howley; Badges by Mark Rolfe; Maps by Steve Longland; Design by Hikoki Publications; Printed in Great Britain by Hillmans, Frome, Somerset"--T.p. verso.

Author : R. D. Layman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781422395196
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naval Aviation in the First World War written by R. D. Layman and published by . This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of all aspects of British naval aviation in WW1 & its influence on operations & strategy. Britain¿s Royal Naval Air Service pioneered many aspects of aerial warfare, incl. strategic bombing, anti-sub. warfare & the develop. of long-range aircraft, & the develop. of ships to carry aircraft, from the seaplane-carriers of 1914 to H.M.S. ¿Argus,¿ the first flat-top aircraft carrier. Discusses little-known aspects of the naval war in the air, incl. the oper. of the Imperial Russian Navy¿s seaplane-carrier squadron in the Black Sea, the world¿s first `carrier strike force¿, the Royal Navy¿s use of observation balloons tethered to ships, & the role played by aviation in the Gallipoli campaign. Details the origins of the forces that were later to dominate naval warfare. Photos.

Author : Mark Barber
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1846039509
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Royal Naval Air Service Pilot 1914–18 written by Mark Barber and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1914 the Naval Wing of the Royal Flying Corps was subsumed into the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). With the bulk of the Royal Flying Corps engaged in France, the aircraft and seaplane pilots of the RNAS protected Britain from the deadly and terrifying Zeppelin menace. In 1915 the RNAS sent aircraft to support the operations in the Dardanelles, and also gave increasing support to the Royal Flying Corps units engaged on the Western Front, conducting reconnaissance, intelligence gathering and artillery spotting, bombing raids, and aerial combat with German pilots. This book explores all of these fascinating areas, and charts the pioneering role of the RNAS in military aviation.

Author : Mark Barber
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780965400
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Royal Naval Air Service Pilot 1914–18 written by Mark Barber and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1914 the Naval Wing of the Royal Flying Corps was subsumed into the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). With the bulk of the Royal Flying Corps engaged in France, the aircraft and seaplane pilots of the RNAS protected Britain from the deadly and terrifying Zeppelin menace. In 1915 the RNAS sent aircraft to support the operations in the Dardanelles, and also gave increasing support to the Royal Flying Corps units engaged on the Western Front, conducting reconnaissance, intelligence gathering and artillery spotting, bombing raids, and aerial combat with German pilots. This book explores all of these fascinating areas, and charts the pioneering role of the RNAS in military aviation.

Author : Alexander Howlett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367650148
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Development of British Naval Aviation, 1914-1918 written by Alexander Howlett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2023-01-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recognises the foundational contribution to Britain's war effort between 1914 and 1918 made by the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS), a revolutionary naval aviation organisation that introduced the aircraft carrier, anti-submarine warfare, strategic bombing and air defence.