In 1918, a war time fleet of 303 U.S. submarine chasers formed a new offensive against the enemy, armed with depth charges, deck guns and an array of new, top secret submarine detection and pursuit devices. These miniature wooden war ships, the smallest commissioned vessels in the American navy, were the first major deployment mechanism for early antisubmarine warfare equipment, and were remarkable in their capabilities and service: Subchasers crossed the Atlantic Ocean on their own power; performed submarine hunts and ...
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In 1918, a war time fleet of 303 U.S. submarine chasers formed a new offensive against the enemy, armed with depth charges, deck guns and an array of new, top secret submarine detection and pursuit devices. These miniature wooden war ships, the smallest commissioned vessels in the American navy, were the first major deployment mechanism for early antisubmarine warfare equipment, and were remarkable in their capabilities and service: Subchasers crossed the Atlantic Ocean on their own power; performed submarine hunts and attacks from bases in Plymouth, Queenstown (Cobh) and Corfu; assisted with post-war diplomacy along the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea; helped facilitate troop evacuation in northern Russia; and participated in the clearing of the North Sea mine barrage. This is the history of the subchasers of the Great War, extensively illustrated with period photographs and diagrams, and rich with personal anecdotes, an up-close account of the early days of ASW based on rare, unpublished documents. 2006, Signal Light Books. Softcover, 218 pages.
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An important and well presented account of US Navy Submarine Chaser (SC) operations in the Med in Greece and Italian waters fighting the Austro Hungraian Navy and then heading to North Russia to Murmansk and Archangel in 1919 to fight against the Bolsheviki. Detailed correspondence and accounts with original photographs of these wooden hulled small ships that sailed back across the Med, into the Atlantic, north through British Waters and into the North Sea and above the Arctic Circle before passing Murmansk and then into the White Sea. The accounts of the visits to Solvetski,a Russian orthodox monastery island, are invaluable. The first Americans to visit what soon would become the first of the Soviet Gulag Archipelago.
