The title Tin-Pots and Pirate Ships reflects a common Canadian attitude during the First World War: Canada's "Tin-Pot Navy" was maligned while the "Kaiser's Pirates" were feared. Not since Gilbert Tucker's classic, The Naval Service of Canada, has there been so comprehensive a study of the origins of the Canadian Navy, and no previous study has examined those origins from the perspective of the Canadian Navy's response to the German threat.
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The title Tin-Pots and Pirate Ships reflects a common Canadian attitude during the First World War: Canada's "Tin-Pot Navy" was maligned while the "Kaiser's Pirates" were feared. Not since Gilbert Tucker's classic, The Naval Service of Canada, has there been so comprehensive a study of the origins of the Canadian Navy, and no previous study has examined those origins from the perspective of the Canadian Navy's response to the German threat.
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Very Good in Very Good(-) jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Very Good/Very Good(-). First Edition. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 391 PP plus 16 pages with 2 maps & 19 b/w photos. Cloth cover, Naval operations and politics of Canada and Germany between 1880 and 1918. Pirates, i.e. : U-boats and commercial submarines/undersea cruisers, loading Canadian strategic metals from neutral USA.
