Events
On This Day - November 5
1917 | K16 | Launched |
1918 | H34 | Launched |
1940 | Rorqual (N74) | HMS Rorqual lays a minefield (50 mines) north-west of Tripoli, Libya. |
1941 | Unbending (P37) | Completed |
1941 | Unison (P43) | Launched |
1942 | Truncheon (P353) | Laid Down |
In Association with the Barrow Submariners Association |
1917 | K16 | Launched |
1918 | H34 | Launched |
1940 | Rorqual (N74) | HMS Rorqual lays a minefield (50 mines) north-west of Tripoli, Libya. |
1941 | Unbending (P37) | Completed |
1941 | Unison (P43) | Launched |
1942 | Truncheon (P353) | Laid Down |
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Richard Compton-Hall has combined research with his own experience as a submariner to provide an insight into the inventions and motivations of the early submarine pioneers. This study explodes a number of popular myths, such as the claim that David Bushnell's one-man Turtle chased the British fleet out of New York Harbour in 1776. The truth about underwater exploration, however, is stranger than the fiction - not least because of its secrets and brotherhoods, duplicity and deception, determination and despair, frequent failure and rare triumph.
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