Up Periscope - Hardcover

Masters, David.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9990371385 ISBN 13: 9789990371383

Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1942

Synopsis

From preface. Only when Germany is vanquished and all the documents are available for the study of the historian will it be possible to give a full account of the activities of the British submarine flotillas in this war. That they have struck hard blows at the navies of Germany and Italy and Japan is well known, their blows at the merchant fleets of the enemy have been equally damaging. British submarines have in fact destroyed so many Axis ships that the shipping problem can be no less acute to the enemy than to the Allies, but whereas the Allies can look forward to vast fleets of new merchant ships from the slipways of the United States, the Axis powers have no such source of supply to save them. Not without reason have the British flotillas which operate so brilliantly in the Mediterranean come to be feared, for their torpedoes and shells have wiped out whole convoys - big and small tankers, fine liners converted into troopships, merchant steamers and sailing ships with escort vessels of various kinds make up the fleets which have set out from enemy ports never to return. In European waters the British flotillas have sunk large numbers of enemy ships of all types, and the following pages describe some of the outstanding actions and experiences of British submarines since the war began

Edition details

• Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode
• Publication date: 1942
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9990371385
• ISBN 13: 9789990371383
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176