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Q-Ships and Their Story
This work presents a historical account of the remarkable and courageous stories of all the combats during the First World War when Germany's use of submarine warfare provoked public uproar and jeopardized Britain's trade routes and its very ability to carry on the war. The British had to think of something to defeat them, and they considered Q-ships to be the right way. Q-ships were heavily armed merchant ships with hidden weaponry created to draw submarines into making surface attacks in order to get a chance to sink them. The work contains details from the tactics that were used by the royal navy to the life on board a Q-ship and finally how they carried out their plan. Written shortly after the war, based on interviews with numerous personalities and several manuscripts related to the subject, this work contains accurate descriptions of the various ships employed and the daring men sailing them, along with several unknown details. This book is a must-read to get a fact-based and comprehensive outlook of the Royal Navy.
King ́s Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855
Reproduction of the original: King ́s Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 by E. Keble Chatterton
Danger Zone
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Q-ships and Their Story
Q-Ships and Their StoryByE. Edward Keble Chatterton
Fighting the U-boats
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Britain's Record
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The Big Blockade
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The Epic of Dunkirk
On 27th May 1940, with the Battle of France all but lost, one of the greatest undertakings of the Second World War began: the evacuation of Dunkirk. Nine days later, the hastily assembled armada of over eight hundred vessels had rescued nearly 340,000 Allied soldiers from across the Channel and brought them back to England. A prominent memory in the U.K., sometimes the contribution of the French, Dutch and Belgians alongside the Royal Navy, Merchant Navy and other ship owners is overlooked, as are the pocket defences that distracted attention from Dunkirk, at Calais, Lille and Amiens. In 'The Epic of Dunkirk' Chatterton does not merely tell one story but many, drawn from these different view...
King's Cutters and Smugglers, 1700-1855
Reproduction of the original: King ́s Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 by E. Keble Chatterton
Q-Ships and Their Story (Illustrated Edition)
Chatterton (1878-1944) was a prolific writer who published around a hundred books, pamphlets and magazine series mainly on maritime and naval themes. At the outbreak of WWI he joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, leaving the service in 1919 with the rank of Lieutenant Commander. This work first published in 1922 draws on his war experiences and describes the role and exploits of the armed merchant ships designed to lure enemy submarines into making surface attacks, thus giving the Q-ships, as they were known, the opportunity to open fire and sink them. Illustrated with numerous photographs and diagrams.
