Poseidon : China's Secret Salvage of Britain's Lost Submarine /

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Royal Navy submarine HMS Poseidon sank in collision with a Chinese freighter during routine exercises in 1931 off Weihaiwei. Thirty of its fifty-six-man crew scrambled out of the hatches as it went down. Of the twenty-six who remained inside, eight attempted to surface using "Davis gear,"...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schwankert, Steven (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Poseidon (Submarine)
Submarine disasters > Yellow Sea.
Submarine disasters > Great Britain.
Submarines (Ships) > Salvaging > Yellow Sea.
Collisions at sea > Yellow Sea.
Shipwrecks > Yellow Sea.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on measurements and Romanization
  • Poseidon : "The sea king" (poem)
  • Introduction
  • Hallowed be thy name
  • The men and the boat
  • "This most absolutely forgotten of imperial outposts"
  • Bad judgment in good visibility
  • Escape
  • Hews and ho
  • "A damned lie"
  • The Court of Enquiry and court-martial
  • Aftermath and legacy
  • A search begins
  • London and Portsmouth
  • More than just the World Cup
  • London again
  • The Rosetta Stone
  • The salvage
  • Finding the graves
  • On eternal patrol
  • Appendix. HMS Poseidon officers and crew
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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