Submarine Warfare of To-Day

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FOOTNOTES

1

Extract from Naval Demobilisation—issued by the Ministry of Reconstruction.

2

The personnel of the new navy consisted of R.N., R.N.R. and R.N.V.R. officers. The former came mostly from the retired list. The R.N.R. needed training only in such subjects as gunnery, tactics, etc. The training of the R.N.V.R. is here described.

3

Yachting Monthly and R.N.V.R. Magazine, August, 1917.

4

One of the remaining U-boats afterwards succeeded in torpedoing the battleship Britannia.

5

When writing of the navy in this connection due praise should be given to the Mercantile Marine, which this war has proved to be a very important part of the true sea power of Great Britain.

6

Greenwich mean time.

7

For a careful study of the effect of the submarine on the old theories of sea power see Submarines and Sea Power, by Charles Domville-Fife (Messrs George Bell & Sons, Ltd., London, and Messrs Lippincotts, New York.).

8

The question of water pressures and many other problems of submarine engineering relating to under-water fighting are fully treated in Submarine Engineering of To-day, by the Author.

9

A few of the 7000 were British mines no longer required in the positions in which they had been laid.