Submarine Torpedo Tactics

Author : Edward Monroe Jones
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786496460
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Submarine Torpedo Tactics written by Edward Monroe Jones and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never-before-published, first-hand accounts of undersea action presented with a summary of torpedo tactics illustrate how a submarine's crew can hit a target that is determined to avoid being hit. Legendary figures in American submarine history come to life in actual logs of undersea warfare, and in accounts of sailors who were in the van of torpedo tactics development. The technology is explained in detail, offering insight into how American subs have been so successful in their hundred-year history. Outlandish gags and pranks of submarine skippers are included, showing just how brazen this elite group of super-competent sailors could be. The reader travels through World War II and the Cold War as submarines and torpedoes enter the nuclear age. Filled with diagrams and illustrations the narration carries the reader into the attack center as "battle stations torpedo!" resounds through a submarine's compartments.

Author : Robert Gannon
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271038403
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hellions of the Deep written by Robert Gannon and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ultimately, World War II was the first war won by technology, but within only a few weeks after the war began, the U.S. Navy realized its torpedo program was a dismal failure. Submarine skippers reported that most of their torpedoes were either missing the targets or failing to explode if they did hit. The United States had to work fast if it expected to compete with the Japanese Long Lance, the biggest and fastest torpedo in the world, and Germany's electric and sonar models. Hellions of the Deep tells the dramatic story of how Navy planners threw aside the careful procedures of peacetime science and initiated &"radical research&": gathering together the nation's best scientists and engineers in huge research centers and giving them freedom of experimentation to create sophisticated weaponry with a single goal&—winning the war. The largest center for torpedo work was a requisitioned gymnasium at Harvard University, where the most famous names in science worked with the best graduate students from all around the country at the business of war. They had to produce tangible weapons, to consider production and supply tactics, to take orders from the military, and, in many cases, also to teach the military how to use the weapons they developed. World War II grew into a chess match played by scientists and physicists, and it became the only war in history to be won by weapons invented during the conflict. For this book, Robert Gannon conducted numerous interviews over a twenty-year period with scientists, engineers, physicists, submarine skippers, and Navy bureaucrats, all involved in the development of the advanced weapons technology that won the war. While the search for new weapons was deadly serious, stretching imagination and resourcefulness to the limit each day, the need was obvious: American ships were being blown up daily just outside the Boston harbor. These oral histories reveal that, in retrospect, surprising even to those who went through it, the search for the &"hellions of the deep&" was, for many, the most exciting period of their lives.

Author : Charles William Sleeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Torpedoes and Torpedo Warfare written by Charles William Sleeman and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles William Domville-Fife
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Submarines, Mines and Torpedoes in the War written by Charles William Domville-Fife and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Monroe Jones
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476617589
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Submarine Torpedo Tactics written by Edward Monroe Jones and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never-before-published, firsthand accounts of under-sea action presented with a summary of torpedo tactics illustrate how a submarine’s crew can hit a target trying to avoid being hit. Legendary figures in American submarine history come to life in actual logs of undersea warfare, and in accounts of sailors who were in the van of torpedo tactics development. The technology is explained in detail, showing how American subs have been so successful in their hundred-year history. Outlandish gags and pranks of submarine skippers are included, showing just how brazen this elite group of super-competent sailors could be. The reader travels through World War II and the Cold War as submarines and torpedoes enter the nuclear age. The book is filled with diagrams and illustrations.

Author : William Erskine Dommett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Submarine Vessels written by William Erskine Dommett and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John S. Barnes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Submarine Warfare, Offensive and Defensive Including a Discussion of the Offensive Torpedo System, Its Effects Upon Iron-clad Ship Systems, and Influence Upon Future Naval Wars J. S. Barnes written by John S. Barnes and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. S. Barnes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781104692223
Total Pages : 280 pages
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Download or read book Submarine Warfare, Offensive and Defensive: Including a Discussion of the Offensive Torpedo System (1869) written by J. S. Barnes and published by . This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Allen Hoar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Download or read book The Submarine Torpedo Boat, Its Characteristics and Modern Development written by Allen Hoar and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Thomas Publications (PA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
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