| Entry Text: | MACKAY, Richard. Damned Un-English Sailors: British Submariners 1901-1945. 183p., illus. Penzance: Periscope, 2009. ISBN: 1904381502.
During both world wars the British submariner faced a one-in-three chance of death, a casualty ratio second only to the loss rate for the aircrews Bomber Command. Neither was he spared the perils during peacetime: until the 1940s submarine losses through misadventure averaged one boat per year. This is a social history charting the first half-century of the development of the Royal Navy Submarine Service. With much information taken from previously unpublished sources, it portrays their lives ashore and afloat. |
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