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William Sowden Sims. The Victory at Sea: History of the Naval Combat in WW1
The Victory at Sea: History of the Naval Combat in WW1
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Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter I. When Germany was Winning the War
FOOTNOTES:
Chapter II. The Return of the "Mayflower"
Chapter III. The Adoption of the Convoy
Chapter IV. American Destroyers in Action
Chapter V. Decoying Submarines to Destruction
Chapter VI. American College Boys and Subchasers
FOOTNOTE:
Chapter VII. The London Flagship
Chapter VIII. Submarine Against Submarine
Chapter IX. The American Mine Barrage in the North Sea
FOOTNOTE:
Chapter X. German Submarines Visit the American Coast
Chapter XI. Fighting Submarines from the Air
Chapter XII. The Navy Fighting on the Land
Chapter XIII. Transporting Two Million American Soldiers to France
FOOTNOTE:
Appendix I. Official Authorization to Publish "The Victory at Sea"
Appendix II. First Cable Message to Washington
Appendix III. First Detailed Report on the Allied Naval Situation
Appendix IV. The Question of Arming Merchant Ships
Appendix V. The Advantages of the Convoy System
Appendix VI. The Navy Department's Policy
Appendix VII. Comments Upon Navy Department's Policy
Appendix VIII. Monthly Losses Since February, 1917, From Enemy Action
Appendix IX. Tonnage Constructed by Allied and Neutral Nations Since August, 1914
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William Sowden Sims, Burton J. Hendrick
Chapter I When Germany was Winning the War
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This, then, was the type of warfare which the German submarines were waging upon the shipping of the Allied nations. What were the Allied navies doing to check them in this terrible month of April, 1917? What anti-submarine methods had been developed up to that time?
The most popular game on both sides of the Atlantic was devising means of checking the under-water ship. Every newspaper, every magazine, every public man, and every gentleman at his club had a favourite scheme for defeating the U-boat campaign. All that any one needed for this engaging pastime was a map of the North Sea, and the solution appeared to be as clear as daylight. As Sir Eric Geddes once remarked to me, nothing is quite so deceptive as geography. All of us are too likely to base our conception of naval problems on the maps which we studied at school. On these maps the North Sea is such a little place! A young lady once declared in my hearing that she didn't see how the submarines could operate in the English Channel, it was so narrow! She didn't see how there was room enough to turn around! The fact that it is twenty miles wide at the shortest crossing and not far from two hundred at the widest is something which it is apparently difficult to grasp.
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