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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF BRITISH SUBMARINES
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NO Guihe Royal Navy Submarine Service of
| today plays a central role in the defence
of Great Britain. With the Trident D5
ballistic missile, the Service maintains and
operates a weapon of unimaginable destructive
power, while the twelve fleet submarines of
the ‘Swiftsure’ and “Trafal
most potent individual vessels in the Royal
Navy's order of battle, But in the early years of
the twentie
1° clases are the
h century, the role of the
submarine was anything but central to the
Royal Navy
Since Submarine Holland 1 was laid down in
1901, submarines have undergone tremendous
change. Holland 1 was small and primitive, its
ability unproven, while the nuclear-powered
Trident’ class submarines of today’s Royal
Navy are 165 times heavier. Their ability to
travel the oceans of the world for months on
end, fully submerged and carrying Britain's
nuclear deterrent, isa graphic illustration of
this quantum leap in design and technology
Nothing illustrates this change better than
the fascinating selection of photographs
collected for this book from the archives of the
Royal Navy Submarine Museum, the Imperial
War Museum, the National Maritime Srorco
Navule in Venice, and a number of private
collections. They cover the stories of the frst
submersibles, the development of the
submarine as a potent weapon of sea power in
the First and Second World Wars, and the
dawn of the nuclear age when submarines
bec
sme launch platforms for strategic nuclear
‘weapons with the potential for mass
destruction.
HM Submarines in Camera gives a graphic
view of life in British submarines which have
been an integral part of the Royal Navy for
the past 100 years ~ submarines that range
from the tiny ‘Holland’ class designed in
Queen Victoria's reign, to the monstrous
‘Vanguard’ class of the nuclear age. Their
exploits from the North Cape to the Falklands,
from the Mediterranean to the Pacific, are
legendary, and the award of fourteen Victoria
Crosses to the Submarine Service is testimony
to the devotion, courage and past sacrifice of
those brave men who are proud to call
themselves submariners
Illustrated throughout with archive
photographs accompanied by detailed captions,
HM Submarines in Camera will appeal to all
with an interest in the Royal Navy and its
‘enduring association with the submari
£19.99SUBMARINES
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