Securing the Narrow Sea

Securing the Narrow Sea by STEVE DUNN


Authors
STEVE DUNN
ISBN
9781848322493
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
288
Dimensions
152 x 229mm

The Dover Patrol, which brought together an assortment of vessels ranging from the modern to the antique and included cruisers, monitors, destroyers, trawlers, drifters, yachts and airships, was commanded by a series of radical and polarising personalities and increasingly manned by citizen volunteers. Between 1914 and 1918 the men of the Patrol sought to shut down German access to the Atlantic via the narrows of the English Channel, with the goal of preventing German bound trade going in and U-boats, commerce raiders and warships going out. Their story has rarely been told, but it was the longest, and probably the most arduous, continuous naval campaign of the war, demanding much sacrifice of ships and men. Using first-hand accounts of the participants, the book examines the wide-ranging exploits of the Dover Patrol ? from shore bombardment, barrage building and maintenance, anti-submarine work and escort duties to the protection of troops and supplies to the Western Front and ship-to-ship engagements with German forces. It also charts the in-fighting at the Admiralty which led to two changes of command and examines the personalities of the men involved. The author paints a vivid picture of a vital and little known part of the war at sea, bringing its exploits and challenges to life and culminating with the infamous Zeebrugge and Ostend raids. An important new book. AUTHOR: Steve Dunn has a special interest in the Royal Navy of the late Victorian, Edwardian and First World War eras. His books include biographies of Admirals Cradock (The Scapegoat) and Troubridge (The Coward?) and the story of the first British battleship, Formidable, to be sunk by a torpedo. He lives in Worcestershire and southwest France. He was nominated for the Maritime Foundation's Mountbatten Maritime Award for Best Literary Contribution for their book 'Blockade: Cruiser Warfare and the Starvation of Germany in World War One'.
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