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The Royal Navys operations in World War II started on 3 September 1939 and continued until the surrender of Japan in August 1945 - there was no phoney war at sea. The navy played a central role in the evacuation of the retreating British army at Dunkirk, and later orchestrated the sinking of Germanys mighty battleship and Hitlers pride, the Bismarck. Without the Royal Navys attention to the defence of Britains seaborne trade - especially in the struggle against German U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic - there would not have been food for the country, fuel for the RAFs operations or supplies to keep the army fighting in Europe, North Africa and the Far East. Yet the outstanding naval contribution to Britains survival and eventual victory came at a heavy cost in terms of ships and to the men who had to face not just the violence of the enemy, but also the violence of the sea. This book argues that World War II was, effectively, a maritime war; it was the Royal Navys war
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Duncan Redford is Senior Research Fellow in Modern Naval History at the National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN). He previously held a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship at the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies, University of Exeter, and is the author of The Submarine: A Cultural History from the Great War to Nuclear Combat (I.B.Tauris).
A HISTORY OF THE ROYAL NAVY SERIES
A History of the Royal Navy: The Age of Sail
Andrew Baines ( ISBN : 978 1 78076 992 9)
A History of the Royal Navy: Air Power and British Naval Aviation
Ben Jones ( ISBN : 978 1 78076 993 6)
A History of the Royal Navy: The American Revolutionary War
Martin Robson ( ISBN : 978 1 78076 994 3)
A History of the Royal Navy: Empire and Imperialism
Daniel Owen Spence ( ISBN : 978 1 78076 543 3)
A History of the Royal Navy: The Napoleonic Wars
Martin Robson ( ISBN 978 1 78076 544 0)
A History of the Royal Navy: The Nuclear Age
Philip D. Grove ( ISBN : 978 1 78076 995 0)
A History of the Royal Navy: The Royal Marines
Britt Zerbe ( ISBN : 978 1 78076 765 9)
A History of the Royal Navy: The Seven Years War
Martin Robson ( ISBN : 978 1 78076 545 7)
A History of the Royal Navy: The Submarine
Duncan Redford ( ISBN : 978 1 78076 546 4)
A History of the Royal Navy: The Victorian Age
Andrew Baines ( ISBN : 978 1 78076 749 9)
A History of the Royal Navy: Women and the Royal Navy
Jo Stanley ( ISBN : 978 1 78076 756 7)
A History of the Royal Navy: World War I
Mike Farquharson-Roberts ( ISBN : 978 1 78076 838 0)
A History of the Royal Navy: World War II
Duncan Redford ( ISBN : 978 1 78076 546 4)
The Royal Navy: A History Since 1900
Duncan Redford and Philip D. Grove ( ISBN : 978 1 78076 782 6)
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Copyright 2014 Duncan Redford
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Tables
Surface raider hunting groups, October 1939
Operation Dynamo. Total of British and French troops rescued on each day of the operation
British, Allied and neutral merchant ships sunk by German U-boats and aircraft, JanuaryJune 1941
Numbers of convoys arriving/departing the UK and the percentage losing one or more merchant ships
Composition of British, French and Italian Mediterranean Fleets, June 1940
The timings of the Japanese initial attacks across the Pacific and South East Asian Region, 7/8 December 1941
Royal Navy (including Imperial forces) strength in the Far East and Indian Ocean, 194145
Figures
HMS Courageous sinking after being torpedoed by U-29 (NMRN)
The commerce-raiding cruises of the German pocket battleships Deutschland and Graf Spee
HMS Achilles entering Auckland harbour in February 1940 (NMRN)
The battle of the River Plate and the Graf Spees retreat to a neutral port
HMS Warspite and her escorting destroyers during the second battle of Narvik (NMRN)
Destroyers alongside in Dover harbour with rescued BEF troops waiting to disembark (NMRN)
The Flower class corvette HMS Campanula (NMRN)
British and Allied merchant vessel losses by cause, JulyDecember 1940
British and Allied merchant vessel losses by cause, July 1940December 1941
HMS Springbank, a fighter catapult ship (NMRN)
Tons of Allied and neutral merchant shipping sunk per U-boat per day at sea, 3 September 193931 December 1941
HMS Audacity (Fleet Air Arm Museum)
The monthly number of ocean convoys arriving or leaving the UK and the number losing merchant ships, January 1942June 1945
The FH3 ship-borne High Frequency Direction Finding set (Imperial War Museum)
The Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar (Imperial War Museum)
Refuelling at sea (NMRN)
A convoy of troop ships forming part of Operation Torch are escorted by a CVE, possibly HMS Biter (NMRN)
U-boats sunk (all causes), 1 January 19429 May 1945
The German battleship Bismarck is seen here in action during the battle with HMS Hood and HMS Prince of Wales (Bundesarchiv)
The Channel Dash, February 1942
The battle of the Barents Sea
The German battleship Tirpitz under attack by Fleet Air Arm Barracuda torpedo/dive-bombers (NMRN)
The raid on Dieppe
The landing craft off the beach during the raid on Dieppe (NMRN)
Operation Neptune
A merchant ship has been beached to allow rapid unloading during the early days of the Normandy invasion (NMRN)
The operations to clear the Scheldt estuary and the assault on Walcheren
The seaborne assault on Walcheren (NMRN)
HMS Illustrious, the Royal Navys first armoured fleet carrier (NMRN)
The Fleet Air Arm attack on the Italian fleet in Taranto harbour
Force H. HMS Ark Royal can be seen launching Fulmar fighters with HMS Renown in attendance (NMRN)
The battle of Matapan
A convoy arrives at Malta (NMRN)
Axis merchant vessels sunk in the Mediterranean, 194041
Axis merchant ships sunk (by tonnage), June 1940December 1941
U class submarines alongside in Valetta harbour, Malta (Royal Navy Submarine Museum)
HMS Barham capsizing after being hit by three torpedoes (NMRN)
HMS Euryalus during the heavy air attacks that were unleashed on the ships of Operation MG1 (NMRN)
Operation Pedestal. The tanker SS Ohio is towed into Grand Harbour, Valetta, Malta (NMRN)
Force Z. HMS Prince of Wales arrives at Singapore, December 1941 (NMRN)
The gun crew of the S class submarine HMS Statesman (Royal Navy Submarine Museum)
Japanese shipping losses to British submarines, 1 January 194215 August 1945
The Eastern Fleet at sea (NMRN)
A long-range fuel tank explodes underneath a Corsair fighter as it lands on HMS Victorious in October 1944 (NMRN)
HMS Victorious moments after being hit, but only slightly damaged, by a kamikaze aircraft (NMRN)
.The Battle of Matapan by David Cobb (NMRN)
.Empire Day 1941
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