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| Author | : Tom Lewis |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780987151919 |
Any Australian asked to mention our war heroes could probably name General Monash and Albert Jacka VC from World War I, and then Weary Dunlop, and perhaps Field Marshal Blamey from WWII. A knowledgeable few might be able to suggest Australia's greatest fighting air ace, Clive Caldwell. But who could name our naval heroes? Naval conflicts take place often far from our shores. Ships and men sometimes disappear, to leave only mystery in their wake. In the 1990s the Royal Australian Navy broke with tradition, and for the first time named six submarines after six naval heroes. This book shows the true depths of their achievements. These were men whose warrior exploits stand alongside those of any from other nations. But they have been largely unrecognised, save for those submarines. Captain Hec Waller, for example, fought to the end in HMAS Perth, alongside fellow cruiser USS Houston. The Houston's Captain Rooks was deservedly awarded the Congressional Medal of Honour, America's highest honour. Captain Waller, by comparison, was given distinction, but not of the highest rank. Should he have been given the Victoria Cross? Other heroes stand alongside him. Emile Dechaineux, hero of Dunkirk and the North Sea, battling it out against Japanese kamikaze attack. John Collins, taking HMAS Sydney to victory against Italian cruisers. Hal Farncomb - the first Australian to command an aircraft carrier, in action off the French coast. But The Submarine Six also examines whether two more of its men deserve further honour. Teddy Sheean, tenacious gunner from Tasmania, fought to the end in HMAS Armidale. Robert Rankin commanded HMAS Yarra against fearful odds, dying in defence of his convoy, attacked by overwhelming Japanese forces. Are they also VC candidates? Three of the men are from Tasmania, the island state which in WWII contributed more seamen per head of the population than any other state. All of the six are men of determination, bravery, and incredible resolve. Worth analysis, worth following, and worthy of greater recognition - Australian heroes all. The Submarine Six brings forward six naval warriors to stand alongside any other military achiever.
| Author | : Duncan Redford |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2010-07-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0857718568 |
'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 | : Peter Yule |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 584 |
| Release | : 2008-06-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107469686 |
A unique and outstanding military and industrial achievement, the Collins class submarine project was also plagued with difficulties and mired in politics. Its story is one of heroes and villains, grand passions, intrigue, lies, spies and backstabbing. It is as well a story of enormous commitment and resolve to achieve what many thought impossible. The building of these submarines was Australia's largest, most expensive and most controversial military project. From initiation in the 1981–2 budget to the delivery of the last submarine in 2003, the total cost was in excess of six billion dollars. Over 130 key players were interviewed for this book, and the Australian Defence Department allowed access to its classified archives and the Australian Navy archives. Vividly illustrated with photographs from the collections of the Royal Australian Navy and ASC Pty Ltd, The Collins Class Submarine Story: Steel, Spies and Spin, first published in 2008, is a riveting and accessibly written chronicle of a grand-scale quest for excellence.
| Author | : Nicholas Lambert |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 438 |
| Release | : 2020-11-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1000340805 |
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. |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781904381198 |
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 | : Tom Clancy |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 372 |
| Release | : 2003-05-06 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 1101002581 |
Only the author of The Hunt for Red October could capture the reality of life aboard a nuclear submarine. Only a writer of Mr. Clancy's magnitude could obtain security clearance for information, diagrams, and photographs never before available to the public. Now, every civilian can enter this top secret world...the weapons, the procedures, the people themselves...the startling facts behind the fiction that made Tom Clancy a #1 bestselling author.
| Author | : David Huff |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 332 |
| Release | : 2020-12-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780998800387 |
As the submarine moved through the water, at the speed of 50 knots, the mid-Atlantic ridge was the only reference point it needed to use based on the maps and charts borrowed from the U.S. Navy. The 10 man crew operated the Deep Submergence Vehicle (DSV) with precision as it made its way down through the darkness of the ocean, its front lights illuminating the way as it went deeper into the trench. The DSV's objective was to find the remains of the USS Dolphin, a nuclear Fast Attack submarine that disappeared in or around this area about a month ago. The USS Dolphin was one of three Sea Wolf class submarines in the Navy inventory with the cap-ability to carry Tomahawk missiles and MK-48 torpedoes. Once again the adventure begins for a whole new set of people, when they start searching for the answers that will bring peace to the families of the sailors who lost their lives aboard the USS Dolphin. It was up to Tony and Chance and others to find the clues that would save other men and women as well.
| Author | : Andrew Karam |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 313 |
| Release | : 2002-01-01 |
| Genre | : Cold War |
| ISBN | : 9780957870970 |
You've seen The Hunt for Red October and wondered if it was real. Now you'll know. Rig Ship for Ultra Quiet -- a book about submarines, written by a submariner. Spend two months in a nuclear fast attack submarine off the coast of the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War with Andrew Karam, a decorated veteran of the US submarine force.
| Author | : United States Naval Institute |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1330 |
| Release | : 1926 |
| Genre | : Marine engineering |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : United States. Naval History Division |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 764 |
| Release | : 1959 |
| Genre | : Warships |
| ISBN | : |
An alphabetical arrangement of the ships of the continental and United States Navies, with a historical sketch of each one.
