Disasters of the Deep: A Comprehensive Survey of Submarine Accidents & DisastersPen and Sword, 1 okt 2006 - 288 pagina's This is the fully revised and updated edition of the first comprehensive account of every peacetime submarine disaster from 1774 to the present day. By examining many of the sinkings in considerable detail, analysing what went wrong and describing attempts made to rescue the crew and vessel, Edwyn Gray traces the development of the submarine. |
Inhoudsopgave
1 Give us air | 1 |
2 Into perpetual night | 18 |
3 The best tradition of the Service | 37 |
4 They feel very cold | 57 |
5 Overdue and presumed lost | 74 |
6 When in doubt dive | 91 |
7 A trifling mistake | 103 |
8 Slow torture as well as death | 119 |
11 Here we go for 14 days survivors leave | 172 |
12 We are at the north end of Hurd Deep | 191 |
13 Gertrude Check K | 206 |
14 Dont lose hope | 229 |
15 Affray the last word | 250 |
16 Deliver us O Lord | 257 |
Appendices | 266 |
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aboard accident Admiralty Affray aircraft American ballast tanks Barents Sea battery Bauer boat bottom bows Brandtaucher Britain British submarine buoy buoyancy captain chamber Collision Commander compartment compressed air conning-tower control room crew damage depth despite destroyer divers diving DSEA DSRV emergency engine engine-room escape exercises explosion feet of water Fenian Ram finally fire flooded flotilla Fort Blockhouse France Gareloch Germany H.L. Hunley harbour hatch Holland Holland III Hunley Hurd Deep incident inside the submarine Kursk later Lieutenant Lieutenant-Commander located loss lost miles minutes Momsen Naquin naval Navy's North Sea Officer ordered periscope Portsmouth pressure hull rammed Ran aground remained reported rescue operation Royal Navy Russian salvage sank scuttled ship signal sinking Soviet Squalus steam stern submarine submarine disaster submarine's submerged Sunk in error surface survived survivors Thetis Thresher torpedo tubes towed tragedy trapped U-boat underwater valve vessel watertight doors wreck