The Royal Navy and Anti-Submarine Warfare, 1917-49

By: Malcolm Llewellyn-Jones

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Hardcover | 8 December 2005 | Edition Number 1

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An essential new account of how anti-submarine warfare is conducted, with a focus on both historic and present-day operations.

This new book shows how until 1944 U-boats operated as submersible torpedo craft which relied heavily on the surface for movement and charging their batteries. This pattern was repeated in WWII until Allied anti-submarine countermeasures had forced the Germans to modify their existing U-boats with the schnorkel. Countermeasures along also pushed the development of high-speed U-boats capable of continuously submerged operations.

This study shows how these improved submarines became benchmark of the post-war Russian submarine challenge. Royal Navy doctrine was developed by professional anti-submarine officers, and based on the well-tried combination of defensive and offensive anti-submarine measures that had stood the press of time since 1917, notwithstanding considerable technological change.

This consistent and holistic view of anti-submarine warfare has not been understood by most of the subsequent historians of these anti-submarine campaigns, and this book provides an essential and new insight into how Cold War, and indeed modern, anti-submarine warfare is conducted.

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'An extremely well researched and balanced work, The Royal Navy and Anti-Submarine Warfare, 1917-49 is a refereshing look at a complex subject, from the eyes of a seasoned professional, and sheds light on some popular misunderstanding as to the complexity of modern ASW...a key reference document for naval historians and future maritime strategists.' - The Northern Mariner

'An extremely well researched and balanced work, The Royal Navy and Anti-Submarine Warfare, 1917-49 is a refereshing look at a complex subject, from the eyes of a seasoned professional, and sheds light on some popular misunderstanding as to the complexity of modern ASW...a key reference document for naval historians and future maritime strategists.' -The Northern Mariner

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Preface	p. xi
List of abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Echoes from the past, 1917-40	p. 8
British anti-submarine warfare, 1917-40	p. 8
Convoys and striking forces	p. 12
Wartime experience	p. 17
Mastering the submersible, 1939-43	p. 25
U-boats and their tactics, 1939-43	p. 25
Methods of detecting and attacking U-boats	p. 28
Tactics on gaining contact	p. 35
Beating the submersible	p. 39
Elusive victory: countering the schnorkel, 1944-45	p. 46
Introduction of the schnorkel and its effect on anti-submarine operations	p. 46
British tactical countermeasures	p. 50
Tactics refined from experience	p. 56
Coastal Command's response	p. 58
Results of the anti-schnorkel campaign	p. 60
Prospects of the U-boat war	p. 63
The dawn of modern anti-submarine warfare, 1944-46	p. 68
The problem of the fast U-boat	p. 68
HM submarine Seraph trials	p. 69
Further assessment of the type XXI	p. 75
Captain Roberts' interrogation of German U-boat officers	p. 78
The thrall of the Walter-Boat	p. 81
Planning U-boats trials	p. 84
Type XXI trials and tribulations	p. 88
New organization and old timers at the Admiralty	p. 91
Short-term problems, long-term solutions, 1946-47	p. 93
Assessments of the Russian threat	p. 93
Policy review of methods for attacking submerged submarines	p. 98
The first tranche of doctrine papers	p. 104
The ability of future submarines to make contact	p. 112
New problems, old recipes, 1947-48	p. 119
Anti-submarine problems of the future and attack-at-source	p. 119
Submarine tactical and technical development	p. 129
The joint anti-submarine school's view of anti-submarine tactics	p. 131
Anti-submarine trials at sea	p. 140
Future uncertainties, 1948-49	p. 147
The 'Iron Curtain' and policy deliberations	p. 147
British and allied tactical doctrine	p. 150
A second tranche of doctrine papers	p. 155
A year of exercises with fast submarines	p. 162
Technological answers?	p. 165
Conclusion: joining up the dots, 1944-9	p. 170
The nature of anti-submarine warfare	p. 170
The nature of the threat	p. 172
Tactics and technology	p. 172
The 'defensive' and 'offensive'	p. 173
Synthesis	p. 175
Notes	p. 177
Bibliography	p. 208
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