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Mutiny? Not in my Navy…
To the best of my memory (and a search on Google) there has never been a mutiny on board a US Navy submarine. If there ever has been one, I am sure that one of my faithful fact checking readers will be...
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Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
In August of 1914, events on land in Europe came to a head and the first global conflict began As hellish as the existence of the war on terra firma, a new type of warfare was changing the way...
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The Summer of ‘42
Many of the World War 2 stories being profiled right now are being followed because of the 70th anniversary of those events. The realization that the loss of so many of the participants due to age has...
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PQ 17 July 4th 1942… 2132…“Scatter”
The summer of 1942 was not just a horrible time for merchant shipping long the east coast of the United States, it was also one of significant losses in the Atlantic U-boats were coming out in larger...
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Grand Theft Submarine – Stealing the U-111
Note: This article is a result of some research I have been doing in the past few days about an amazing submarine story related to the technological development of American submarines. The story was...
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Fringes of the Fleet
Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves When your country is an island, it is only natural that you would come to rely on the ocean for commerce with others. When that island is vulnerable to attacks...
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Mutiny? Not in my Navy…
To the best of my memory (and a search on Google) there has never been a mutiny on board a US Navy submarine. If there ever has been one, I am sure that one of my faithful fact checking readers will be...
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Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
In August of 1914, events on land in Europe came to a head and the first global conflict began As hellish as the existence of the war on terra firma, a new type of warfare was changing the way...
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The Summer of ‘42
Many of the World War 2 stories being profiled right now are being followed because of the 70th anniversary of those events. The realization that the loss of so many of the participants due to age has...
View ArticleClik here to view.
PQ 17 July 4th 1942… 2132…“Scatter”
The summer of 1942 was not just a horrible time for merchant shipping long the east coast of the United States, it was also one of significant losses in the Atlantic U-boats were coming out in larger...
View ArticleBlockades and Submarines – An Opinion From a Master Submariner in 1939
Simon Lake was by any measure a Master Submariner. A prolific inventor, he held over two hundred patents at the time of his death in June of 1945 (just a few months short of the end of the war that was...
View ArticleOil, cabbages and very little oxygen… Life aboard a WWI Unterseeboot
May 7th is the anniversary of one of the most significant seagoing tragedies in the annals of submarine history. The sinking of the Lusitania in 1915. (Note: The article is a good read for a day when...
View Article“The submarines could lick us”… 1950 – The submarine missile threat emerges
THE SUBS COULD LICK US With the Second World War less than five years in the past, Naval Authorities were sounding the alarm that technology was about to let the Soviets take a leap forward in the...
View ArticlePirates of the Seven Seas – Those Dastardly Submariners
1920 The new decade had begun. The echoes of the war were still reverberating in society with the recent return of so many of the men from overseas that had seen the ravages of that horrific conflict....
View ArticleThe submarines now in operation are sea-worthy and the living quarters are...
One hundred years ago, most discussions around submarines focused on two things. First, for most of the world. The all too recent painful memory of the death and destruction caused by the German...
View ArticleLife, Liberty and the pursuit of Shipbuilding – January 3 1941
In January 1941, it was becoming obvious that the weapon that created so much trouble in the First World War was once again raising its ugly Spector: The German U-boat. In 1939, 165 ships were sunk and...
View ArticleThe Stirling Letter and How it Helped to Change the Navy
I am reading about the early American efforts to build submarines. There is a lot of great reference material out there that talks about how we entered the submarine race. In the beginning, there was a...
View Article1913 – PERFECTING THE SUBMARINE
The war clouds were continuing to gather over much of Europe. The Kaiser and his leadership team recognized that in order to continue growing as a country, they needed more land and resources. The...
View Article1914 – The Suicide Club – SUBMARINE MOST PUZZLING WAR MACHINE
In August of 1914, the world exploded. The two sides had already been preparing for war by calling up all of the conscripts that would be needed for a massive land war in Europe. Before it was over,...
View Article1915 – The submarines come of age
If there was any doubt about the impact of submarines in an open ocean war, they were dispelled for even the harshest critic in 1914-1915. The surprise attacks form the German U-boats were stunning to...
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