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Observers Directory of ROYAL NAVAL SUBMARINES 1901-1982 
By M P Cocker

Published by Fredrick Warne & Co.            1982
128 pages, illustrated with Black & White photographs and diagrams.

From the dust jacket:
Here, for the first time in a single volume, are details of every submarine commissioned into the Royal Navy from the first Holland boat launched in 1901 to the Trafalgar Class, the name boat of which is now fitting out for trials in 1983. 

Although primarily intended as a directory, the book also provides a complete illustrated history of the development of submarine design and armament over eighty years. 

each Class is described with a specification 
each boat is listed with its date of launch and builder"s name 
the Class entries are supplemented by notes of important changes in construction and to the armament 
all submarine losses in peace and wartime are listed with details of the cause when this is known 
the Appendices list enemy craft sunk by RN submarines in the two world wars 
100 photographs are used, illustrating every Class 
twenty Classes have detailed general arrangement drawings specially commis­sioned for the book 

From the Foreword by Vice Admiral Sir Lancelot Bell Davies, KBE ? 
Any serious researcher will welcome this direct­ory, because it provides a convenient and comprehensive catalogue of British submarines from which he can check statistical data. 

The advent of nuclear propulsion has pro­vided a dramatic change to capability, and a marked improvement in the submariner"s life­style; but the make-up of the man is the same. His courage, forebearance and tolerance of his shipmates, and his dedicated professionalism, will continue to provide food for the historian, and inspiration for the imagination of those who dream of the sea. Mr Cocker has provided such an invaluable help to both.  

In General:
The purpose of this book is to fill an important gap in naval history. There has not previously been a book recording every submarine commissioned into the Royal Navy: this is an attempt to provide an illustrate directory to each one and also show the evolution of the submarine since 1901. There are obvious difficulties in compiling a record of this type: the service histories of many of the boat (submarines are traditionally still called boats) could each fill a book. It is left to others to describe such exploits. Similarly, there are continual modifications to the design of all but the smallest Classes. While such minutiae are of interest to the specialist, they are limited here, for the sake of brevity and clarity, to the more important changes. From the Holland Class of 1901 to the Type 2400. announced in 1979, the wheel has come full circle: the earliest submarines were powered by internal combustion engines and electric motors Now, having gone through a cycle which has included steam turbines, both oil- and nuclear-driven, the latest designs are again planned to be diesel-powered as were the earlier ones.


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