Approximately a third of all Allied merchant vessels sunk during the First World War were by German boats and submarines based at Bruge-Zeebrugge on the coast of Belgium. By 1918 …
On 23 April 1918 a force drawn from the Royal Navy and Royal Marines launched one of the most daring raids in history. The aim was to block the Zeebrugge Canal, thereby denying …
Tells the ';epic tale ofthe entrapment ofHMSAmethystby the Chinese Communists . . . a good sea story and a look inside the early days of the Cold War' (Strategy Page). The attack …
The untold story of the Royal Navy's experimental submarine cruiser, built in secret after WWI, and torpedoed by political propaganda. The X stood for experimental, but it might …
The big-gun battleship served as a symbol of the ultimate power of the world's greatest navies beginning late in the nineteenth century and continuing into the Second World War. So …
The capture by the German surface raider Atlantis of the British steamer City of Baghdads secret code books in July 1940 enabled the Nazis to de-cypher Admiralty convoy plans with …
"e;Once you heard that pinging sound you knew they had got to you, then the depth charges came. Terrible, just terrible."e; Kurt Wehling, u-boat survivor The steel coffins …
Naval VCs have been won in places as far apart in time and distance as the Baltic in 1854 and Japan in 1945, in the trenches from the Crimea to the Western Front, in harbours from …
Whilst researching his earlier book Sea Killers in Disguise, the author unearthed a rich stem of incidents at sea which happened during the two World Wars that shocked and …
