ONE OF OUR
SUBMARINES
PEN & SWORD MILITARY CLASSICS
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Published Classics Titles |
Series No. |
1 | The Bowmen of England | Donald Featherstone |
2 | The Life & Death of the Afrika Korps | Ronald Lewin |
3 | The Old Front line | John Masefield |
4 | Wellington & Napoleon | Robin Neillands |
5 | Beggars in Red | John Strawson |
6 | The Luftwaffe: A History | John Killen |
7 | Siege: Malta 19401943 | Ernle Bradford |
8 | Hitler as Military Commander | John Strawson |
9 | Nelsons Battles | Oliver Warner |
10 | The Western Front 19141918 | John Terraine |
11 | The Killing Ground | Tim Travers |
12 | Vimy | Pierre Berton |
13 | Dictionary of the First World War | Stephen Pope & Elizabeth-Anne Wheal |
14 | 1918: The Last Act | Barrie Pitt |
15 | Hitlers Last Offensive | Peter Elstob |
16 | Naval Battles of World War Two | Geoffrey Bennett |
17 | Omdurman | Philip Ziegler |
18 | Strike Hard, Strike Sure | Ralph Barker |
19 | The Black Angels | Rupert Butler |
20 | The Black Ship | Dudley Pope |
21 | The Argentine Fight for the Falklands | Martin Middlebrook |
22 | The Narrow Margin | Derek Wood & Derek Dempster |
23 | Warfare in the Age of Bonaparte | Michael Glover |
24 | With the German Guns | Herbert Sulzbach |
25 | Dictionary of the Second World War | Stephen Pope & Elizabeth-Anne Wheal |
26 | Not Ordinary Men | John Colvin |
27 | Plumer: The Soldiers General | Geoffrey Powell |
28 | Rommel as Military Commander | Ronald Lewin |
29 | Legions of Death | Rupert Butter |
30 | The Sword and the Scimitar | Ernle Bradford |
31 | By Sea and By Land | Robin Neillands |
32 | Cavalry: The History of Mounted Warfare | John Ellis |
33 | The March of the Twenty-Six | R.F. Delderfield |
34 | The Floating Republic | G.E. Manwaring & Bonamy Dobree |
35 | Tug of War: The Battle for Italy 194345 | Dominick Graham & Shelford Bidwell |
36 | Churchill & The Generals | Barrie Pitt |
37 | The Secret War | Brian Johnson |
38 | Command on the Western Front | Robin Prior & Trevor Wilson |
39 | The Operators | James Rennie |
40 | Churchill and The Admirals | Stephen Roskill |
41 | The Battle for North Africa | John Strawson |
42 | One of Our Submarines | Edward Young |
Forthcoming Titles |
43 | The Battle of Trafalgar | Geoffrey Bennett |
44 | Fire Power | Shelford Bidwell & Dominick Graham |
45 | Sieges of the Middle Ages | Philip Warner |
46 | Haigs Command | Denis Winter |
47 | Hitlers Deaths Head Division | Rupert Butler |
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ONE OF OUR
SUBMARINES
BY
EDWARD YOUNG
COMMANDER, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N.V.(S.)R.
Is it not curious, that so vast a
being as the whale should see the
world through so small an eye?
Moby Dick
PEN & SWORD MILITARY CLASSICS
First published in Great Britain in 1952 by Rupert Hart-Davis
Published in this format in 2004 by
PEN & SWORD MILITARY CLASSICS
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Copyright Edward Young, 1952, 2004
ISBN 1 84415 106 9
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FOREWORD
by Admiral Sir George Creasy, K.C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.V.O.
Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet
I HAD the honour and happiness to command the Submarine Branch of the Royal Navy from September, 1944, to October, 1946.
In pre-1939 days our Submarine Branch was regarded as very much the preserve of the regular Royal Naval officer and rating. It was my distinguished predecessor, the late Admiral Sir Max Horton, G.C.B., D.S.O., who, foreseeing the inevitable expansion that would be required of the Branch, insisted on opening the entry to officers of the Royal Naval Reserve and the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. This policy was pursued by his successor and my immediate predecessor, the late Admiral Sir Claud Barry, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O.
Thus when I inherited the command I found that more than half the officers of our submarines were from the R.N.R. and the R.N.V.R., the latter in the majority owing to their larger numbers. And of these a considerable number had risen to the command of submarines.