Submarine & Anti-Submarine Pages

Includes Battle of the Atlantic,
Northern Convoys & Mediterranean submarine activities

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Click for more information on THE SEA HERITAGE - this study by Jellicoe's Flag-Captain, later Admiral Sir Frederic Dreyer, in WW1 - a valuable book for its interesting material on the pre-war and war periods. The Jutland material is the highlight. This book and others for sale at camberpete.co.uk
SWORDFISH PATROL by George E. Sadler: Swordfish Patrol is the story of a Fleet Air Arm pilot during the Second World War. After a lengthy period of pilot training in both the UK and Canada he was drafted to a Swordfish squadron.George Sadler was amongst the last group of airmen to go to war in an open cockpit, not far removed from the intrepid pilots of the First World War. But they saw no glamourous single combats over the Western Front, instead they spent long hours in below zero temperatures over the North Atlantic from HMS Nairana.
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Dan van der Vat maintains in this book "The Atlantic Campaign" (1986) says "at this distance the 'Battle of the Atlantic' can more clearly be seen as a campaign of many battles spread over nearly six years of war." Churchill used the phrase 'Battle of the Atlantic' to describe the struggle over the Anglo-American lifeline in the Second World War. Click here for more details.

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The History of the British ' U ' CLASS Submarine by Derek Walters: Originally designed in 1934 as a small simple submarine for anti-submarine training, the 'U' Class submarine's career turned out to be far more dramatic and valuable than that. On the onset of the War it was first adapted for patrolling home waters but, by the close of hostilities six years later, boats of the Class had served world-wide with seven different navies. Its contribution was never more successful than in the dangerous waters of the Mediterranean, where their operations were a major factor in the defeat of Rommel's Afrika Corps.
In 1939, on the outbreak of war he was already serving in submarines. Over the next six years he was rammed twice, sunk once and had hundreds of depth charges dropped around him. He gave more than he got! While in command of the Unity Class Submarine Ultor, mainly in the Mediterranean he and his crew accounted for an astonishing 20 enemy vessels sunk by torpedo and 8 by gunfire as well as damaging another 4 ships. His fifteenth mission was described by the Admiralty as 'unsurpassed in the Annals of the Mediterranean Submarine Flotillas'
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