История подводного флота Великобритании

Casemate Publishers, 2020. — 192 p. The vivid and engaging biography of Tony Beasley, a telegraphist working on submarines during the Cold War. Tony Beasley joined the Royal Navy as a teenager in 1946. This biography recalls the adventures he had during his time in the Navy, from training and specialization as a telegraphist to being unexpectedly sent to work on submarines. He...

Pen and Sword, 2009. — 240 p. On 1 June 1939 His Majesty's Submarine Thetis sank in Liverpool Bay while on her diving trials. Her loss is still the worst peacetime submarine disaster the Royal Navy has yet faced when ninety-nine men drowned or slowly suffocated during their last fifty hours of life.The disaster became an international media event, mainly because the trapped...

Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 192 p. The ‘X’ stood for experimental, but it might equally have meant extraordinary, exotic or extravagant, as this giant submarine attracted superlatives―the world’s largest, most heavily armed, and deepest diving submersible of the day. X.1 was a controversial project conceived behind the backs of politicians, and would remain an unwanted...

Naval War College Press, 2010. — 87 p. — (Newport Papers). In Defeating the U-boat: Inventing Antisubmarine Warfare, Newport Paper, Jan. S. Breemer tells the story of the British Navy response to the German submarine threat during 1917-1918. His account of Germany's 'asymmetric' challenge (to use the contemporary term) to Britain's naval mastery holds important lessons for the...

New York: Wiley, 1889. — 288 p. A specialist ‘how to’ book detailing the methods used to protect vital ports and harbours up to the late 1880s by means of the fast-evolving weapons of submarines, mines and torpedoes. The author, a former Royal Engineers officer, goes into great technical detail on the specifics of mine casings, the quantities of explosives used, electrical mines,...

Pen and Sword, 2008. — 144 p. This is a must-buy for the Royal Navy and Submarine enthusiast, being a complete directory of RN submarines from the outset to the present day. There is a wealth of detail on each class. Every entry contains the specification, launch dates of individual boats, details of evolving construction and armament and other salient information in a compact...

Seaforth Publishing, 2014. — 305 p. The part played in the Cold War by the Royal Navy’s submarines still retains a great degree of mystery and, in the traditions of the ‘Silent Service,’ remains largely shrouded in secrecy. Cold War Command brings us as close as is possible to the realities of commanding nuclear hunter-killer submarines, routinely tasked to hunt out and covertly...

Pen and Sword Maritime, 2010. — 439 p. Since the beginning of the Royal Navy Submarine Service in 1901, 173 submarines have been lost and in many circumstances with their entire crew. War inevitably takes a heavy toll: in World War Two alone – 341 officer and 2,801 ratings failed to return to harbour. The loss of personnel was roughly equivalent to the strength of the Submarine...

London: Frank Cass, 2003. — 203 p. — (Cass Series: Naval Policy and History). Britain's Anti-Submarine Capability, 1919-1939 is the first unified study of the development of Britain's anti-submarine capability between the armistice in 1919 and the onset of the second world German submarine attack on Britain's maritime trade in 1939. Well researched and yet accessibly written, this...

Seaforth Publishing, 2019. — 432 p. Although the Royal Navy did not invent the submarine, Norman Friedman’s new book demonstrates how innovative the service was, to an extent which few will recognize. Its submarines performed well in combat in both world wars, and often in unheralded ways. Few will be aware that in 1914 Britain had the largest submarine fleet in the world, and...

Seaforth Publishing, 2020. — 384 p. The Royal Navy's greatest contribution to the Allied success in World War II was undoubtedly the defeat of the U-boat menace in the North Atlantic, a victory on which all other European campaigns depended. The underwater threat was the most serious naval challenge of the war so it was not surprising that captured German submarine technology...

The History Press, 2011. — 216 p. In April 1951, the disappearance of HM submarine Affray knocked news of the Korean War and Festival of Britain from the front pages of national newspapers. Affray had put to sea on a routine peacetime simulated war patrol in the English Channel. She radioed her last position at 21.15hrs on 16 April, 30 miles south of the Isle of Wight - and...

Naval Institute Press, 2015. — 496 p. No Room for Mistakes is a thoroughly researched account of British and Allied submarine warfare in north European waters at the beginning of World War II. Haarr has compiled research from a wide range of primary sources to create one of the most readable, comprehensive accounts of early war submarine activities. With detailed, accurate maps...

Archaeopress, 2017. — 135 p. For centuries inventors have been dreaming up schemes to allow people to submerge beneath the waves, stay a while then return again unharmed. The Resurgam was designed for this purpose, as a stealthy underwater weapon which was the brainchild of an eccentric inventor realised in iron, timber, coal and steam. The inventor was George William Garrett,...

London, UK: Mudlark, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2019. — 304 p. ; b & w illus., diagrams, maps. What’s it like to spend three months without sunlight, sharing what little space you have with over a hundred fellow crewmen and more firepower than all the bombs dropped in World War II combined? This memoir reveals the funny, challenging, one-of-a-kind experience that...

London, UK: Mudlark, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2019. — 304 p. ; b & w illus., diagrams, maps. What’s it like to spend three months without sunlight, sharing what little space you have with over a hundred fellow crewmen and more firepower than all the bombs dropped in World War II combined? This memoir reveals the funny, challenging, one-of-a-kind experience that is...

London: Arms and Armour Press, 1988. — 64 p. — (Warships Illustrated №11). — ISBN10 0-85368-778-1; ISBN13 978-0-85368-778-8. The book is basically a lot of black and white naval photos with paragraph (or multiple paragraph) captions of each picture with information about the Soviet submarine or naval vessel. For its time it was an good photo reference. Only one picture for many...

London: Routledge, 2006. — 223 p. An essential new account of how anti-submarine warfare is conducted, with a focus on both historic and present-day operations. This new book shows how until 1944 U-boats operated as submersible torpedo craft which relied heavily on the surface for movement and charging their batteries. This pattern was repeated in WWII until Allied...

Pen and Sword Military, 2008. — 223 p. During the bleak, heartbreaking days of early 1942, when beleaguered Malta was reeling under bombardment and blockade and Rommel was making his last desperate thrust towards Egypt, only one British submarine was operating in the western Mediterranean - the tiny, 600-ton Unbroken. In twelve months in the Med, Unbroken sank over 30,000 tons of...

Pitkin, 2015. — 34 p. This is a beautiful and informative guidebook and history of HMS Alliance. HMS Alliance was laid down at the Vickers Shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness on 13 March 1945. Allied forces had entered Germany and the defeat of Hitler's Third Reich was just weeks away. In the Far East, the war with Japan was at its height. HMS Alliance and the other A Class...

Faber & Faber , 2012. — 288 p. HMS Conqueror is Britain's most famous submarine. It is the only sub since World War Two to have sunk an enemy ship. Conqueror's sinking of the Argentine cruiser Belgrano made inevitable an all-out war over the future of the Falkland Islands, and sparked off one of the most controversial episodes of twentieth century politics. The controversy was...

Tauris Academic Studies, 2010. — 332 p. Underhand and damned un-English' was the view of submarines in Edwardian Britain. However, by the 1960s new nuclear powered submarines were seen by the Royal Navy as being the 'hallmark of a first class navy'. This exciting new book explores the changing attitudes to the submarine in Britain from World War One to the age of nuclear...

Pen and Sword, 2008. — 224 p. The Malta Force submarines had the vital task of interrupting German and Italian convoys crossing the Mediterranean to resupply Rommel and his Army in North Africa. The outcome of the Desert War depended on this. Operations from the beleaguered island were hazardous both at sea and in port. The Naval Base was under constant air attack. Due to the...

Pen and Sword Maritime, 2012. — 244 p. Of all the acts of gallantry in World War II few were as audacious as the attack by midget submarines on the pride of the German fleet, the battleship Tirpitz, lying in her fortified mooring in a Norwegian fjord. Lieutenant Godfrey Place (1921-1994) was in command of submarine X7 in September 1943 and traveled over 1000 miles, negotiating...

Pen and Sword, 1988. — 255 p. When the First World War started in 1914 the potential of the submarine as a tactical weapon was largely a matter of conjecture. This is the story of one young naval officer’s war for thirteen months from its outbreak in August, 1914. Since he was serving in the submarine HMS E7 it is essentially the story of that submarine. For eight months they...

The HMS Courageous Society, 2010. — 354 p. The start of the Cold War is often identified with Churchill’s now famous ‘Iron Curtain’ speech, made in Fulton, Missouri in 1946. This was just one year after the end of World War II. There is just one line in that speech that is now implanted in the history of this planet for all time. It ran: ‘From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste...

Pen and Sword Maritime, 2023. — 298 p. HMS Turbulent was a Royal Navy T-class submarine. From its launch in May 1941 to when it was lost at sea, along with its entire crew, in March 1943, it was responsible for the sinking of nearly 100,000 tons of enemy shipping. Besides the number of enemy vessels it sunk, HMS Turbulent has gone down in history for the attack on the Italian...

Pen and Sword Maritime, 2023. — 216 p. HMS Turbulent was a Royal Navy T-class submarine. From its launch in May 1941 to when it was lost at sea, along with its entire crew, in March 1943, it was responsible for the sinking of nearly 100,000 tons of enemy shipping. Besides the number of enemy vessels it sunk, HMS Turbulent has gone down in history for the attack on the Italian...

Pen and Sword, 2004. — 324 p. In the very highest rank of books about the last war. British submarines are thrilling beasts, and Edward Young tells of four years’ adventures in them in a good stout book with excitement on every page. He writes beautifully, economically and with humor, and in the actions he commands he manages to put the reader at the voice-pipe and the...

Пер. с англ. Е.Б. Поспе­ловой. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2004. — 366 с. — ISBN: 5-9524-1242-4. Эта книга об участии подводных мини-лодок и челове­коуправляемых торпед в военных операциях в годы Второй мировой войны. Их боевые экипажи внесли весомый вклад в победу союзных войск. Книга основана на документальном ма­териале.

Пер. с англ. Е.Б. Поспе­ловой. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2004. — 366 с. — ISBN: 5-9524-1242-4. Эта книга об участии подводных мини-лодок и челове­коуправляемых торпед в военных операциях в годы Второй мировой войны. Их боевые экипажи внесли весомый вклад в победу союзных войск. Книга основана на документальном ма­териале.

М.: Центрполиграф, 2003. — 383 с. В книге Эдварда Янга, морского офицера-подводника, рассказывается о боевых действиях британских субмарин во Второй мировой войне. Янг прошел сложный путь от новичка до одного из лучших и опытных капитанов Королевских ВМФ. Он служил на Дальнем Востоке, Красном море, на Крайнем Севере и в Средиземноморье, а три последних года командовал...

Пер. с англ. Л.А. Игоревского. — М.: ЗАО Центрполиграф, 2003. — 383 с. ISBN: 5-9524-0656-4 В книге Эдварда Янга, морского офицера-подводника, рассказывается о боевых действиях британских субмарин во Второй мировой войне. Янг прошел сложный путь от новичка до одного из лучших и опытных капитанов Королев­ских ВМФ. Он служил на Дальнем Востоке, Красном море, на Крайнем Севере и в...

Пер. с англ. Л.А. Игоревского. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2003. — 383 с. — ISBN: 5-9524-0656-4. В книге Эдварда Янга, морского офицера-подводника, рассказывается о боевых действиях британских субмарин во Второй мировой войне. Янг прошел сложный путь от новичка до одного из лучших и опытных капитанов Королев­ских ВМФ. Он служил на Дальнем Востоке, Красном море, на Крайнем Севере и в...