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Submarine Warfare of To-day / How the Submarine Menace Was Met and Vanquished, with Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships, Nets, Aircraft, &c. &c., Also Describing the Selection and Training of the Enormous Personnel Used in This New Branch of the Navy cover

Submarine Warfare of To-day / How the Submarine Menace Was Met and Vanquished, with Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships, Nets, Aircraft, &c. &c., Also Describing the Selection and Training of the Enormous Personnel Used in This New Branch of the Navy

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By Charles W. Domville-Fife
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The author examines Allied responses to the submarine menace in the recent war, detailing the creation and training of an anti-submarine force, the organization of fleets and shore bases, and the recruitment and instruction of large personnel complements. He surveys technical developments such as hydrophones, depth charges, nets, fast boats, decoy or mystery ships, and aircraft, and explains their tactical employment and supporting inventions. Chapters mix operational description with practical accounts of base administration, training establishments, and routine incidents at sea, emphasizing the methods, devices, and procedures that made effective countermeasures possible rather than focusing on singular heroic episodes.




THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED, EDINBURGH
1920


FOOTNOTES:

[1] Extract from Naval Demobilisation—issued by the Ministry of Reconstruction.

[2] The personnel of the new navy consisted of R.N., R.N.R. and R.N.V.R. officers. The former came mostly from the retired list. The R.N.R. needed training only in such subjects as gunnery, tactics, etc. The training of the R.N.V.R. is here described.

[3] Yachting Monthly and R.N.V.R. Magazine, August, 1917.

[4] One of the remaining U-boats afterwards succeeded in torpedoing the battleship Britannia.

[5] When writing of the navy in this connection due praise should be given to the Mercantile Marine, which this war has proved to be a very important part of the true sea power of Great Britain.

[6] Greenwich mean time.

[7] For a careful study of the effect of the submarine on the old theories of sea power see Submarines and Sea Power, by Charles Domville-Fife (Messrs George Bell & Sons, Ltd., London, and Messrs Lippincotts, New York.).

[8] The question of water pressures and many other problems of submarine engineering relating to under-water fighting are fully treated in Submarine Engineering of To-day, by the Author.

[9] A few of the 7000 were British mines no longer required in the positions in which they had been laid.

Transcriber's Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors repaired.

Page 4, number 5 was missing from the list.

On pages 37-51, the original uses "depot." On pages 103 and 104, it uses "depôt." This was retained.

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