5 edition of British merchant ships sunk by U boats in the 1914-1918 war found in the catalog.
British merchant ships sunk by U boats in the 1914-1918 war
A. J. Tennent
Published
1990
by Starling Press in Newport, Monmouthshire
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Written in
Edition Notes
Statement | A. J. Tennent. |
Classifications | |
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LC Classifications | D580 |
The Physical Object | |
Pagination | (260)p. ; |
Number of Pages | 260 |
ID Numbers | |
Open Library | OL15352566M |
ISBN 10 | 0951631403 |
OCLC/WorldCa | 22307943 |
This book focuses on the British Merchant Navy prisoners-of-war and is partly based on contemporary diaries hidden from the Germans. Other aspects of the war discussed include the activities of the German navy, the role of the BBC, how the prisoners knew what was happening in the war, the Nuremberg trials and the human cost of the conflict. The volume of total tonnage sunk soared from , tons in January to , tons in April, , tons in May, and , tons in June, making this by far the worst period of shipping losses for the Allies during the war.
The British, of course, took countermeasures to protect their merchant shipping. One such measure was to begin installing deck guns on their merchant ships which would allow the merchantman to open fire on a surfaced submarine. Early war German submarines had such light armament that they could be outgunned by even a lightly armed merchantman. Just looking at how many ships U-boats attacked during each war, it’s evident that the number of ships hit by submarines in the s surpasses the totals of the s: Source: The chart on the right-hand side also shows that submarine effectiveness from onward took a big dive, so to speak.
Learn u +boats with free interactive flashcards. Choose from 83 different sets of u +boats flashcards on Quizlet. The Laurentic / Some ships managed to survive these turbulent years, and with great success. The Olympic, the first Olympic class liner from the White Star Line, was the only merchant ship inworld War I known to have sunk a warship when she rammed and sank a U-boat that had tried to torpedo her.
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U-Boat War,The by Gray, Edwyn A. Leo Cooper/ Pen and Sword Books ISBN Hardcover, pp. This is a very fine book covering the World War I U-boats and many of the amazing feats they achieved. The book takes a neutral approach by including information from both sides to broaden the perspective.
Purchase information. British Merchant Ships Sunk by U-boats in the War. By Tennent, A.Starling Press, Rogerstone; Newport; Gwent ISBN Paperback, pages. Get this from a library.
British merchant ships sunk by U boats in the war. [A J Tennent]. For over 90 years the only source of information on British warships lost, and merchant and fishing vessels lost, damaged and attacked in World War 1 has been His Majesty's Stationery Office official publication "British Vessels Lost at Sea " (BVLS or HMSO), published in and reprinted in HMS Cressy, HMS Aboukir & HMS Hogue – On 22 Septemberin the Action of 22 Septemberthree British ships were sunk by SM U After Aboukir was torpedoed it was mistakenly thought that the ship had hit a mine and the remaining ships approached to rescue the crew.
Hogue and then Cressy were then torpedoed and sunk. 1, men were. The U-boat Campaign from to was the World War I naval campaign fought by German U-boats against the trade routes of the took place largely in the seas around the British Isles and in the German Empire relied on imports for food and domestic food production (especially fertilizer) and the United Kingdom relied heavily on imports to feed its.
British Merchant Ships sunk by U-Boats in the War by Tennent, A. and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at British Merchant Ships Sunk by U-boats in the War by A J Tennent, (sources include Lloyd's Marine Collection, Guildhall Library, and Der Handelskrieg mit U-booten,5 vols by Rear Admiral Spindler,).
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description Object description. Bibl.:p Object description. Includes index. BRITISH SUBMARINE "THUNDERBOLT'S" RECORD OF SUCCESS. 7 FEBRUARYMALTA. By the end of World War I, U-boats had been commissioned, sinking more than 5, ships and resulting in the loss of 15, lives. The might of the U-boat, however, wasn't enough to hold back.
On 21 October Admiral Reinhard Scheer, the German Chief of the Admiralty Staff, ordered all U-boats to return to ended the German campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare, which meant sinking merchant ships without warning, that had begun on 1 February.
Scheer’s orders were obeyed by almost all U-boat captains. UC 74 (Oberleutnant. British Merchant Ships sunk by U-Boats War, wreck, wreck database.
British Merchant Ships Sunk by U Boats in War Index of Ships’ Names Index of Places. Book weighs approx g unwrapped. ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE EMAIL I WILL TRY TO ANSWER. Please do not leave until the last minute of the auction as I cannot guarantee to answer straight away, but always within the day.
A merchant ship in The British Merchant Navy of World War II, previously known as the "Merchant Service" or "Mercantile Marine" comprised the merchant shipping registered in Great Britain and independently operated by British commercial shipping vessels carried cargo to and from the country and those of the Commonwealth to sustain its war : Merchant Navy.
Book Information Tennent, A. Tennent, A. British Merchant Ships Sunk by U Boats in the War British Merchant Ships Sunk by U Boats in the War. Newport, Ghent: Starling Press, When Admiral Henning von Holtzendorff, the Chief of the Admiralty Staff of the Imperial German Navy, persuaded the German High Command to resume unrestricted submarine warfare from 1 February he admitted that this might bring the USA into the war.
However, he argued that the U-boats would have sunk enough merchant ships to force the UK to surrender before the. The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania occurred on Friday, 7 May during the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom which had implemented a naval blockade of ship was identified and torpedoed by the German U-boat U and sank in 18 minutes, and also took on a heavy starboard list.
The vessel went Cause: Torpedoed by German U-boat U Q-ships, also known as Q-boats, decoy vessels, special service ships, or mystery ships, were heavily armed merchant ships with concealed weaponry, designed to lure submarines into making surface attacks.
This gave Q-ships the chance to open fire and sink them. The use of Q-ships contributed to the abandonment of cruiser rules restricting attacks on unarmed merchant ships.
Whilst the toll of the U-boats escalated rapidly, with overtons of Allied cargo ships being lost in each of the months of May to Julythere was also a toll on the U-boats themselves. A total of four U-boats were lost in Apriland another three in the period May to July Buy British Merchant Ships Sunk by U-boats in the War by Tennent, A.J.
(ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low 5/5(1). A ship on the stocks in a British shipyard during World War One, when ships were being built as rapidly as possible to replace those sunk by the German U-boats Date: This photo dates to World War I.
Try A very comprehensive site. Apparently in WW1 a total of U boats sank merchant ships, a total of 12, tons. Not sure if this included sinkings by mines laid by u-boat.Set Descending Direction.
British Warships since part 2 submarines and depot ships.