Dimensions
170 x 250 x 20mm
This is the story of the submarines which failed to come
home in both war and peace. In both wars submarine warfare
transformed the coastline into a pitiless arena where a life
or death struggle was played out between U-boats attempting
to close the sea-lanes and Allied ships striving to keep
them open. Combining years of international archival
research and expert analysis, this series describes how
these submarine wrecks came to be here. In Volume 3 Ron
Young and Pamela Armstrong recount the submarines lost along
the North Cornwall coast to the Isle of Man. Authoritative
and meticulously sourced, wherever possible accounts are
told in the words of those who were present, relating
miraculous escapes from stricken submarines, relentless
pursuit and merciless attack. Most poignantly of all, the
book re-evaluates one of the darkest episodes of British
maritime history, the loss of HMS Thetis in Liverpool Bay,
June 1939, revealing crucial new information on this
disaster.
