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| 1942 | GALLAGHER, Thomas. Against all Odds: Midget Submarines against the Tirpitz. xv, 170p., illus., index. London: Macdonald; New York: Harcourt Brace, 1971. ISBN: 0356035913
Describes Operation SOURCE, the X-Craft raid against the Tirpitz in Kaafjord in 1943. US title: The X-Craft Raid. |
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| 1943 | HOBSON, Robert W. Chariots of War. 162p., bibliog.., illus., index. Church Stretton: Ulric, 2004. ISBN: 0954199715.
An exhaustive assembly of information on the development and operation of human chariots. |
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| 1944 | JACOBSEN, Alf R. X-Craft Versus Tirpitz: The Mystery of the Missing X5. [v], 287p., bibliog., illus., index. Stroud: Sutton, 2006. ISBN: 075094112X.
First published in Norway in 2003, this usefully explores German, British and Norwegian sources to argue that Henty-Creer probably did make an attack in X5. Also describes attempts to find the wreck of the X Craft. |
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| 1945 | MITCHELL, Pamela. Chariots of the Sea: The Story of Britain's Human Torpedoes during the Second World War. 248p., bibliog., illus., index. Huddersfield: Netherwood, 1998. ISBN: 1872955169.
A compelling story largely told through personal reminiscences. |
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| 1946 | MITCHELL, Pamela. The Tip of the Spear. 232p., bibliog., illus., index. Huddersfield: Netherwood, 1993. ISBN: 1872955142.
Written by an amateur historian whose father was involved in building X-Craft, this is a collection of personal reminiscences strung together with linking accounts of training and action. |
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| 1947 | PUGH, Marshall. Commander Crabb. ix, 165p., illus. London: Macmillan; New York: Scribner, 1956. Crabb gained notoriety when he disappeared in Portsmouth Harbour in 1956 in mysterious circumstances. This biography also describes his wartime exploits fighting the Italian 10th Light Flotilla from Gibraltar then clearance diving in northern Italy. US title: Frogman. |
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| 1948 | WALDRON,T. J., & GLEESON, James. The Frogmen: The Story of the Wartime Underwater Operators. 191p., illus. London: Evans, 1950. The first account of the wartime role of frogmen, chariots, X-Craft and P-Parties. Reprinted by the Elmfield Press in 1975, ISBN: 0705700461. Republished in 2014 by Fonthill as Naval Frogmen: Wartime Underwater Operators, ISBN: 9781781551721. |
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| 1949 | WALKER, Frank & MELLOR, Pamela. The Mystery of X 5: Lieutenant H. Henty-Creer's Attack on the Tirpitz. 239p., bibliog., illus., index. London, Kimber, 1988. ISBN: 0718306287.
Henty-Creer's autobiography is accompanied by an examination by his sister and a naval author who set out to prove that X 5 did in fact deliver a successful attack on the Tirpitz. |
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| 1950 | WARREN, C. E. T., & BENSON, James. Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes. 256p., illus., index. London: Harrap; New York: Sloane, 1953.
A popular account of a small part of the Royal Navy, which operated with great bravery in almost every theatre of operations. US title: The Midget Raiders. |
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| 1951 | WATKINS, Paul. Midget Submarine Commander. 256p., illus. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2012. ISBN: 9781848848009.
A biography of Lieutenant Godfrey Place who commanded X-7 and was captured in the attack on Tirpitz. He was awarded the VC. He served until 1970. |
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| 1952 | British Warships: The Royal Navy Completely Illustrated and Described. ii, 40, [ii]p., illus., index. London: Illustrated London News, [1940].
A large format work, with a mixture of drawings and photographs of the ships and classes of ships of the RN. It gives leading details and has some commentary. |
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| 1953 | His Majesty's Ships: An Account of the Ships in the Royal Navy, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Royal Australian Navy, the Royal New Zealand Navy, the South African Naval Forces, the Royal Indian Navy. 95p., illus. London: Harrison, 1942.
A review of the ships in commission in November 1942, with leading details and some notes on the main ships or classes of ship. Unusual in that the view given is as from a low-flying aircraft off the port bow. |
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| 1954 | Little Ships of the Royal Navy. 16p. ,illus. [ n.p.: n.p., 1943?].
A wildly inaccurate pamphlet for children, with drawings by Rowland Hilder. |
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| 1955 | Naval Episodes. 28p., illus. Southport: Real Photographs Co., [1943].
A pamphlet aimed at encouraging the collection of the company's postcard-sized photographs of ships. Some 22 photographs of various warships are reproduced with details of the ship and some incident from its wartime career. |
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| 1956 | Ships of the Royal Navy: Eighty-Nine Photographs with Descriptions. 64p., illus. London: Hutchinson, [1942].
Pictures of all capital ships and of one of each class of smaller ship, with three or four lines of technical information. |
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| 1957 | Warship Recognition. 42p., illus. Southport: Real Photographs Co., [1944].
Illustrated with photographs and silhouettes, this provides a guide to the state of the Royal Navy as publicised in 1944. |
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| 1958 | BLUNDELL, Walter D. G. Royal Navy Warships 1939–1945. 120p., illus. London: Almark, 1971. ISBN: 0855240342.
A list of warships, fully illustrated with photographs and constant scale drawings. Details of construction, size, and service are given. |
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| 1959 | BROWN, David. K. Nelson to Vanguard: Warship Development 1923–1945. 224p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Chatham, 2000. ISBN: 1861761368. A well-illustrated, fact-replete guide to the various ship types with substantial appendices, by one of the experts in the field. Looks at how the RN responded to the restrictions of the Washington Naval Treaties and built the fleet that fought the war. Includes information on the pre and post-war damage trials. . |
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| 1960 | CASSANDRA. Spot Them at Sea! Identification Drawings of HM Ships of the Royal Navy. 32p., illus., index. London: Daily Mirror, [1940].
Well-illustrated with photographs and line drawings. |
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| 1961 | COLLEDGE, J. J. Ships of the Royal Navy: An Historical Index. 2 vols. Newton Abbot: David & Charles; New York: Kelley, 1969. ISBN: 071534353X (Vol. 1); 0715343963 (Vol.2)
An alphabetical list with brief details of all ships which have ever served in the RN. Volume 1 deals with major vessels and volume 2 with minor vessels and auxiliaries. The World Ship Society produced a supplement in 1986. A new expanded edition of volume 1 was published by Greenhill Books and the Naval Institute Press in 1987 (ISBN: 0947898751) and a fully revised edition by Greenhill in 2003 (ISBN: 1853675660) . |
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