Lost subs
Subtitle: from the Hunley to the Kursk, the greatest submarines ever lost - and found
By: by Spencer Dunmore ; introduction by Dr. Robert D. Ballard.
Publisher: Da Capo
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: Submarine disasters; Submarine disasters -- History; Submarines (Ships)
Other titles: Greatest submarines ever lost, and found
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 174) and index.
Table of contents: title: The silent service; title: August 12, 2000 : the final moments aboard the Russian Navy's nuclear submarine Kurst; title: The birth of the submarine : A brief history of early subs, including the Turtle and the Nautilus; title: The first underwater weapon of war : the American Confederate sub H.L. Hunley; title: The submarine comes of age : the influence of John Holland on submarine design; title: Battle under the sea : the submarine has now become a forbidable weapon, as Germany's U-boats prove during the First World War; title: Lost in peace : two submarine tragedies, the US Navy's Squalus and the Royal Navy's Thetis, dominate peacetime headlines; title: The U-boat war : Germany revolutionizes the way submarines are used in combat; title: A casualty of the Cold War : a tiny piece of aluminum foil spells disaster for the US Navy's nuclear submarine Scorpion; title: Disaster under the Barents Sea : the tragic story of the Kursk; title: For those in peril.