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Documents

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552

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90/23/1

ItemName
Private Papers of J P Mosse

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Ts memoirs (144pp), written in 1986 - 1988, recording, with much useful detail, his early life as the son of an RN officer, his training as a cadet at the Royal Naval College Dartmouth (1924 - 1928), his service as a midshipman in the Mediterranean Fleet battleships HMS WARSPITE and HMS VALIANT (1928 - 1929), the cruiser HMS DURBAN and the sloop HMS HELIOTROPE on the North America and West Indies Station (1929 - 1930) and the Home Fleet battleship HMS BARHAM (1930), his Sub-Lieutenant's courses (1931 - 1932) and service in the sloop HMS LUPIN on the East Indies Station for duties in the Persian Gulf (1933 - 1934) and then as a Lieutenant in the destroyer HMS WALPOLE on Irish patrol duties (1934 - 1935) and the destroyer depot ship HMS WOOLWICH in the Mediterranean (1935), his training and subsequent service as an anti-submarine (A/S) officer, mostly in HMS HERO, with the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean at the time of the Spanish Civil War (1936 - 1938), his appointment as an instructor at HMS OSPREY, the A/S establishment at Portland (1938 - 1939), as A/S officer in the destroyer HMS HAVELOCK, including operations during the Norwegian campaign and the evacuation from St Nazaire (February - September 1940), as A/S officer to Captain (D) in the Liverpool Escort Force (September 1940 - July 1941), as A/S officer to Rear Admiral Alexandria (October - December 1941) including the Italian human torpedo attack on HMS VALIANT and HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH, as A/S officer, in HMS JERVIS, to the 14th Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean (January 1942 - February 1943) including the 2nd Battle of Sirte and escort of convoys from Alexandria to Malta; as Fleet A/S officer on the Mediterranean Station under Admiral Harwood (February - December 1943); in command of the frigate HMS MERMAID on Russian and North Atlantic convoy escort (May 1944 - September 1945) including the sinking of U 344 and U 394 on Russian convoys JW59 and RA59 respectively; and his post-war service in the A/S Warfare Department (1945 - 1948), as 1st Lieutenant of the aircraft carrier HMS IMPLACABLE, the flagship of the Home Fleet (1948 - 1949) and in the Tactical and Staff Duties Division (1950 - 1955).

MakerName
Mosse

Forenames
J P

Honours
DSC RN

Style
Commander

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100

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IDNO
1459

OtherNumber
91/38/1

ItemName
Private Papers of P J H Bartlett

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Engagingly written and informative ms memoirs in four volumes (128pp), written during the 1980s and including one or two contemporary documents and photographs, covering his command of HMS PERSEUS (4th Submarine Flotilla) on patrols and routine exercises on the China Station from August 1939 - July 1940 and then on some unrewarding patrols in the Mediterranean and Aegean (August 1940 - June 1941) also embracing a long refit in Malta during the blitz on the island (October 1940 - April 1941); his command of the submarine HMS OBERON for training purposes with the submarine commanding officers' qualifying course in Home waters (late 1941 - March 1942); his appointment on the staff of the C-in-C Mediterranean with responsibility for the operations of the submarine flotilla based on Beirut and including the North African landings (August 1942 - early 1943); on the staff of the 10th Submarine Flotilla based on Malta and then Maddalena including preparations for the landings in Sicily and the South of France (March 1943 - September 1944); on the staff of Admiral (Submarines) in London in early 1945 and with Naval Party 1735 in occupied Germany with responsibility for assembling and sailing to the United Kingdom all remaining U boats in North German ports (May - August 1945). The memoirs include some interesting analyses of the tactical employment of British submarines in the early stages of the war and useful references to Admiral Sir Percy Noble and the well-known submariner Commander Alastair Mars RN.

MakerName
Bartlett

Forenames
P J H

Honours
OBE RN

Style
Commander

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1

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IDNO
1003

OtherNumber
85/41/1

ItemName
Private Papers of O E Hallifax

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
An extremely detailed ms diary, in 8 volumes, covering his service as First Lieutenant of the submarine HMS E7, July 1914 - July 1915, and describing how, as a boat in the 8th Submarine Flotilla based on Harwich, she carried out a series of unfruitful patrols in the Heligoland Bight between August 1914 and May 1915 and was then ordered to the Dardanelles where she had a very successful patrol in the Sea of Marmara in July 1915, but during which the diarist was severely injured; and with particularly interesting entries concerning Britain's entry into the European war, the abundance of wartime rumours, the stresses of active service in submarines, the remarkable personalities of his two commanding officers (Commander F E B Feilman RN and Captain the Hon Sir Archibald Cochrane RN) and some attendant disciplinary problems, the Battle of the Heligoland Bight (28 August 1914) and a surface action against a Zeppelin (11 May 1915); together with Hallifax's ms drafts of his reports of proceedings when in command of the submarines HMS D7 (May - September 1917) and HMS R11 (October 1918) in the North West Approaches; and his ms memoirs (12pp), with ts transcript (12pp), principally concerning the sinking of U 45 by D7 on 12 September 1917 and the difficulties of making a successful submarine attack.

MakerName
Hallifax

Forenames
O E

Honours
DSO RN

Style
Captain

RelatedIWMItems
See full catalogue and DPH Q115231 - 115248

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1

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IDNO
2175

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92/53/1

ItemName
Private Papers of F H H Goodhart

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Two very detailed ms diaries, each with ts transcript (269pp in all) kept during his command of the submarine HMS E8 (August 1915 - December 1916) and describing her passage from Harwich to Revel in Estonia for attachment to the Imperial Russian Navy and her subsequent employment on patrols in the Baltic (August - November 1915 and May - November 1916) including successful attacks on a German merchant ship and the cruiser PRINZ ADALBERT in October 1915 and with interesting entries on technical problems in the maintenance of his submarine, the professional qualities and personalities of the other British submariners in the Baltic, notably Commander (later Admiral Sir Noel) Laurence, Commander (later Admiral Sir Max) Horton and Commander (later Captain) F N A Cromie RN, and the disagreements between Laurence and Horton, factors affecting the morale of the officers and men of the British submarines in the Baltic, visits by Rear Admiral (later Admiral Sir Richard) Phillimore, the British liaison officer at Imperial Russian HQ, the loss of E18 in the Baltic (May 1916), the attitudes of the Russian Navy and its officers, the Tsar Nicholas II's visit to Revel (November 1915), trips by Goodhart and other British submariners to Petrograd, Moscow and, in February - March 1916, to the Russian Black Sea Fleet and SW (Caucasus) Army, and his observations on civilian conditions and political opinion in Russia; together with five related ms letters (all with transcripts) to his family, November 1915 - December 1916, and one ms letter (23pp, with 17pp ts transcript) describing at length his patrols off Heligoland and in the North Sea in August - September 1914, including the Battle of the Heligoland Bight; and the warrants accompanying his orders and decorations and his next of kin memorial scroll following his death in the submarine HMS K13 in January 1917.

MakerName
Goodhart

Forenames
F H H

Honours
DSO AM RN

Style
Commander

RelatedIWMItems
See DCAR (DEAF/DPH)

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1

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DeptName
Documents

IDNO
2687

OtherNumber
94/6/1

ItemName
Private Papers of J C Brighton

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Photocopy of an ms memoir (24pp), written in the late 1970s, together with two slightly edited ts transcripts (16pp), covering his service in submarines, ultimately as a Chief Petty Officer Torpedo Gunner's Mate, from 1930 to 1942, but especially his appointment to HMS DOLPHIN, the submarine base at Portsmouth, for a course to qualify for promotion to Torpedo Gunner's Mate (April - November 1940) and his subsequent service in the submarine HMS PORPOISE (December 1940 - late 1942) which was initially based on Halifax, Nova Scotia for North Atlantic convoy escort and then, from September 1941, on Alexandria and later Haifa for operations in the Mediterranean, including submerged supply runs to Malta, minelaying and patrols against enemy shipping. The recollections, which contain useful references to the air raids on Portsmouth in 1940 and Malta in 1941 - 1942, and to the routine observed by PORPOISE's crew on patrols, as well as technical data about the mines and torpedoes which PORPOISE carried, are accompanied by photocopies of his official certificate of service in the Royal Navy and his electrical trade certificate as a Torpedo Instructor.

MakerName
Brighton

Forenames
J C

Honours
DSM

RelatedIWMItems
See also SR (17267) and Ian Trenowden's THE HUNTING SUBMARINE: THE FIGHTING LIFE OF HMS TALLY HO (Crecy Books, 1994)

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1

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IDNO
4661

OtherNumber
81/49/1

ItemName
Private Papers of E H Chavasse

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Two volumes of well-written ts memoirs (165pp and 173pp respectively), the first covering his voyage out to the Far East and service on the China Station as First Lieutenant of the Yangtse River gunboat HMS SCARAB, September 1932 - January 1934; the second his commands, in the former American destroyer HMS BROADWAY, of C2 Escort Group on North Atlantic convoys, April 1942 - May 1943, and in the frigate HMS BENTINCK of the 4th Escort Group on North Atlantic convoys, September - November 1943, and convoys to West Africa and the Mediterranean, November 1943 - June 1944, and his appointment as Staff Officer (Operations) at the HQ of the Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches in Liverpool, August 1944 - May 1945. The latter memoir throws valuable light on the many frustrations and occasional rewards of the convoy protection at the height of the Battle of the Atlantic and on the weapons and tactics of the Escort Groups as well as containing some interesting descriptions of attacks by escort vessels on U-boats, notably HMS BROADWAY's destruction of U 89 in May 1943. With the memoirs are a cartoon and a photocopy of the plot relating to the sinking of U 89, a signed copy (8pp) of Captain H N Lake's history of Western Approaches Command during the Second World War, written in 1945, and two photographs of Commander Chavasse in uniform, one with his brothers at an investiture.

MakerName
Chavasse

Forenames
E H

Honours
DSO OBE DSC RN

Style
Commander

RelatedIWMItems
See also DPH (HU 42588) and the papers of his brothers Captain P M B Chavasse RN (81/49/1) and Colonel K G F Chavasse (98/23/1)

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1

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DeptName
Documents

IDNO
7304

OtherNumber
76/110/1

ItemName
Private Papers of H E Spragge

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Series of 9 ms diaries covering his service in the battleship HMS AUDACIOUS (Grand Fleet), October 1914, the battle cruiser HMS LION (Battle Cruiser Fleet) including the Battle of Dogger Bank, 1914 - 1915, the destroyer HMS RACEHORSE (Dover Patrol), 1915, the destroyer HMS FURY (Eastern Mediterranean Squadron) including the evacuation of Cape Helles, Gallipoli, 1915 - 1916, the cruiser HMS MINOTAUR (Northern Patrol), 1916 - 1918, the submarines H11 (Western Approaches), 1918, H26 (Home waters), 1918 - 1919, L20 (China Station), 1920 - 1922, H52 (3rd Submarine Flotilla, Home waters), 1923 - 1924, L7 (China Station), 1924 - 1926, and L23 (1st Submarine Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet), 1926 - 1927, the battleship HMS RESOLUTION (Mediterranean Station), 1927 - 1928, and the 2nd Submarine Flotilla, 1928 - 1930.

MakerName
Spragge

Forenames
H E

Honours
RN

Style
Commander

Weighting
1

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BelowTheWaves

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published

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23/06/2006 12:46:31

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DeptName
Documents

IDNO
11355

OtherNumber
PP/MCR/17

ItemName
Private Papers of I M Anderson

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Microfilm copy of an ms diary covering his service as a junior officer in HMS OLYMPUS (4th Submarine Flotilla, China Station) from July 1937 - August 1939, with interesting entries about the Japanese presence at Wei-Hai-Wei, the opening of the Singapore dockyard, social life ashore at Hong Kong and elsewhere and OLYMPUS's deployment at the time of the Munich crisis, and then in the submarine HMS ODIN which was initially based, following the outbreak of war, on Penang and then on Ceylon, carrying out a series of unsuccessful patrols in the Indian Ocean (September 1939 - March 1940) before being ordered to Malta where she was lost with all hands on her first patrol in the Mediterranean just after Italy's entry into the war (June 1940). A large number of photographs, presscuttings and other items, including a letter from his father about the Munich settlement and a typed copy of his own last letter home, have been inserted in the diary, which reflects some of Anderson's frustrations during his nine months service in ODIN.

MakerName
Anderson

Forenames
I M

Honours
RN

Style
Lieutenant

RelatedIWMItems
See full catalogue

Weighting
1

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WebStatus
published

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23/06/2006 12:46:31

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DeptName
Documents

IDNO
12165

OtherNumber
P228

ItemName
Private Papers of C de Burgh

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Ms diary (60pp) covering his service as a watch-keeping Lieutenant in HMS ANTRIM, the flagship of Rear Admiral W C Pakenham, Commanding 3rd Cruiser Squadron, July 1914 – February 1915, detailing his journey to Scapa Flow and duties involving mine and anti-submarine patrols, criticising Admiral Pakenham's reluctance to board ships and Captain Molteno as being ill-tempered, making several references to the threat posed by U-boats before his move to Rosyth where he describes the aftermath of the Battle of the Dogger Bank; together with a ts diary covering his service in command of the submarine G8 attached to the 10th Submarine Flotilla based on Scapa Flow, March 1917 – July 1917, covering patrols between Scapa and Norway and also giving his impressions of HMS KING GEORGE V (2nd Battle Squadron, Grand Fleet); plus miscellaneous documents consisting of reports, sailing orders, letters and memoranda relating to his service in submarines, 1915 – 1918.

MakerName
de Burgh

Forenames
C

Honours
DSO RN

Style
Captain

RelatedIWMItems
See full catalogue and DPH (Q 90600-606 and HU 57902-910)

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1

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published

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23/06/2006 12:46:31

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Documents

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DeptName
Sound

IDNO
4033

ProductionDate
1963

ObjectType
Recording

IndexPeople
Bowles, John H xxx

IndexPlaces
Baltic Sea

IndexUnits
GB.N & Submarine, E 19

ShortSummary
British engineer served aboard submarine E 19 in Baltic Sea, 10/1915

FullSummary
REEL 1 Recollections of role as engineer officer during operations aboard E 19 in Baltic Sea, 11/10/1915: boarding and scuttling Welter Leonardt, 11/10/1915; pursuit of German ship which ran aground and boarding it to set demolition charges; boarding and scuttling Guntrude and Director Ripenhagen; assistance from German crew in boarding and scuttling Nocodemia; boarding and scuttling Welter Leonardt, pursuit of German ship which ran aground and boarding it to set demolition charges; assistance from German crew in boarding and scuttling Nocodemia.

ContextDescription
BBC Interviews: Great War
Naval Operations, 1914-1919: First World War, 1914-1918
Naval Operations: Submarines

Duration
9

NumberOfParts
C/C

OtherFormats
Part : 3pp

MakerName
Bowles, John H

ProductionCompany
BBC

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

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004033S01.mp3
Bowles-waratsea.mp3

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750
900

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17 November 2006

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Sound

Access
Educational use only

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
7142

ProductionDate
1976

ObjectType
Recording

IndexPeople
Holbrook, Norman Douglas xxx

IndexPlaces
TR & Helles, Gallipoli
MI & Dardanelles
MI & Dardanelles & Sari Sighlar Bay
MI & Dardanelles & Narrows

IndexUnits
GB.N & B11
DE.N & Goeben
TR.N & Messudieh

ShortSummary
British officer served aboard submarine B11 in Mediterranean, 1914; sank Messudieh in Dardanelles, 13/12/1914

FullSummary
REEL 1 Account of operations aboard B11 submarine in Dardanelles, 13/12/1914: prior posting to patrol outside Dardanelles to prevent escape of Goeben, 8/1914; selection for mission; plans; method of passing Narrows minefield; problems with currents; successful torpedoing of Messudieh in Sari Sighlar Bay; navigational difficulties; temporarily running aground; use of prevailing current in returning through minefield; opinion of crew and post war contacts with them; failure of later French attempt to pass Narrows.

ContextDescription
Naval Operations, 1914-1919: Naval Warfare, 1914-1919
Naval Operations: Submarines

Duration
10

NumberOfParts
1

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
Holbrook, Norman Douglas

ProductionCompany
Bush, Eric W

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

RelatedIWMItems
Victoria Cross holder

RelatedSoundFile
007142S01.mp3
Holbrook-waratsea.mp3

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750
900

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17 November 2006

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Sound

Access
Private copyright - check copyright holder

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
9167

ProductionDate
18/Dec/1985

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexPeople
Pook, William John xxx

IndexPlaces
GB, England
NO
IE, North Sea
MI
Adriatic
LK
LK & Colombo
IC
ID, Java
ID, Java & Surabaya

IndexUnits
GB.N & Truant
GB.N & Service, Submarine
GB.N & Codrington
DE.O & Ship, Altmark
DE.O & Ship, Tropic Sea

ShortSummary
British petty officer served as engine room artificer aboard submarine HMS Truant in North Sea, Mediterranean and Far East, 1939-1943

FullSummary
REEL 1 Recollections of operations as chief engine room artificer aboard submarine HMS Truant in North Sea, 1939-1940: joining submarine, 9/1939; problems with engines; patrolling off Norway, 1939-1940; surveillance of Altmark; attack on German freighter; sinking of German cruiser Karlsruhe; under German depth charging; repairing submarine after attack; smell on board submarine; distance to which sound travels under water; damage to submarine in explosion; opinion of captains he served under.
REEL 2 Continues: Recollections of operations as chief engine room artificer aboard submarine HMS Truant in Mediterranean, 1940-1941: scuttling of Tropic Sea during voyage to Mediterranean; patrolling; sailing conditions; landing sabotage party in Italy; running aground in Adriatic; attacking Italian merchant vessel on North African coast; attack on convoy in Eastern Mediterranean; length of patrols; periods between patrols; attitude to operating in Mediterranean refitting in US, 1941. Recollections of operations as chief engine room artificer aboard submarine HMS Truant in Far East, 1942-1943: basing of submarine in Surabaya; effect of Japanese bombing of Colombo; situation in Surabaya, early 1942; effects of heat in submarine in Far East; repairing engines due to corrosive effect of seawater; attacks on Japanese shipping; breaks in Ceylon between patrols; contracting dengue fever.
REEL 3 Continues: return to GB via South Africa, 1943; attitude of Royal Navy to Submarine Service. Aspects of service with Royal Navy, 1928-1943: feelings in Royal Navy at time of Invergordon Mutiny c1931; work picking up refugees on HMS Codrington during Spanish Civil War. Aspects of service with Submarine Service, 1939-1943: extra pay and other attractions; living quarters; rations; lack of sickness amongst submariners; daily routine on patrol.

ContextDescription
Naval Operations, 1939-1945: Submarines
Naval Operations, 1939-1945: Mediterranean, 1940-1945
Naval Operations, 1939-1945: Far East, 1941-1945

Duration
90

NumberOfParts
3

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
Pook, William John

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

RelatedSoundFile
009167S01.mp3
Pook-waratsea.mp3

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750
900

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Published

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17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
9858

ProductionDate
27/Jul/1987

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexPeople
McGeoch, Ian Lachlan Mackay xxx

IndexPlaces
GB, England
GB, England & Chatham, Kent
GB, Channel Islands & Guernsey
GB, Northern Ireland
GB, Northern Ireland & Belfast
GB, Scotland
GB, Scotland & Tobermory
AC, South
FR
FR & Gironde
FR & Toulon
FR & Lyons
FR & Toulouse
MI
MT
ES
ES & Ferral
ES & Pyrenees
GI
IT
IT & Naples
IT & Sardinia
IT & Naples
IT & Capua
IT & Rome
IT, Sicily
CH
CH & Bern
CH & Geneva

IndexUnits
GB.N & H 34
GB.N & H 43
GB.N & Splendid
GB.N & Ursula
GB.N & Urge
GB.N & Submarine Flotilla, 10
GB.N & Centurion
IT.N & Velite
IT.N & Aviere
IT.O & POW Camp, Campo 5, Garvi
DE.N & Hermes
GB.O & British Consulate, Geneva

IndexConcepts
POW

ShortSummary
British officer served aboard submarines HMS Clyde, H43 and HMS Triumph in Atlantic and GB coastal waters, 1939-1940; commanded submarines H 43 and H 34 in GB coastal waters, 1940-1941; served with 10th Submarine Flotilla on Malta, 1941 including patrol aboard submarine HMS Ursula; commanded submarine HMS Splendid in Mediterranean, 1942-1943; POW in Italy, 1943; escaped to GB via Switzerland, France and Spain, 1943-1944

FullSummary
REEL 1 Background in Ellensborough 1914-1931: family; education; reasons for joining Royal Navy, 1931. Aspects of period as officer with submarine HMS Clyde, 1939-1940: attractions of Submarine Service; reaction to declaration of Second World War, 3/9/1939; patrols in South Atlantic; Christmas in Dakar, 25/12/1939. Aspects of operations as first lieutenant aboard submarines H 43 and HMS Triumph in GB coastal waters, 1940: landing agents in Guernsey, 1940; brief period aboard HMS Triumph; drafting to commanding officer's course, c10/1940.
REEL 2 Continues: Aspects of period as commander of submarine H43 and H34 in GB coastal waters, 1940-1941: joining H43 ; pessimistic attitude of submarine commander he relieved; repair work in Belfast, 12/1940; appointment to H34;east coast patrols; voyage in fog to Tobermory. Aspects of passage from GB to Malta aboard submarine HMS Urge, 1941: safe haven system; sinking of Axis tanker off Gironde. Period with 10th Submarine Flotilla in Malta, spring 1941: arrival in Malta; brother officers; role as spare officer; patrol off North Africa commanding HMS Ursula; bouts of illness, 6/1941; return to GB, 1/1942.
REEL 3 Continues: Memories of German Air Force attacks on Chatham, 1940. Recollections of operations as commander of submarine HMS Splendid in Mediterranean, 1942-1943: equipment; reduction of size of silhouette of submarine; dispensing with bridge steering; encounter with neutral ship; hunt for German raider near Ferral, Spain, autumn 1942; arrival in Gibraltar; patrolling of Toulon, autumn 1942; capture of secret books from Axis vessel off Italy, autumn 1942; abortive attack on U-boat off Naples; need to ignore second Axis submarines; failure of attack on third submarine; torpedoing of Italian destroyer Velite, 11/1942.
REEL 4 Continues: sinking of merchant vessel; patrol off Sicily, 12/1942; attack on Axis convoy on route to North Africa; sinking of Aviere during attack on second convoy off Sardinia, 12/1942; comparison between British and German methods of torpedo attacks; ashore in Algiers, 12/1942; landing agents in Sardinia, 1/1943; attack on merchantman off Sardinia, 19/1/1943; attack on convoy off Naples, 1/1943.
REEL 5 Continues: comparison between surface and dived attacks; attacks on convoys off Sicily during third patrol, 2/1943; further attacks off Sicily, 3/1943; detection of protective temperature sea layers; sinking tanker during fifth patrol, 20/3/1943; story of Maltese storeman's idea of what constituted an emergency. Recollections of sixth patrol in which HMS Splendid was sunk, 21/4/1943: question of strain on his reactions; attack by German destroyer, Hermes.
REEL 6 Continues: damage to submarine during depth charging his decision to abandon ship; wounding in eye by machine gun fire; crew's capture by German destroyer Hermes; reaction to sinking of submarine; treatment by German captors. Recollections of period as POW in Italy, 1943 including escape attempts: interrogation in transit camp at Capua; contacting families; hospitalisation for eye injury; construction of escape tunnel; removal northwards; escape from hospital train, 7/1943.
REEL 7 Continues: concealment near airfield; trek through Italy; capture by Italian carabinieri; move to Rome; escape attempt in Rome; thwarting of stooge during solitary confinement in Rome; move to Campo 5, Garvi, c8/1943; gaining information from escaped POWs; decision to repatriate him for wounds; news of Italian collapse, 9/1943. Recollections of escape from Italy to GB via Switzerland, France and Spain, 1943-1944: escape from hospital; decision to head to Switzerland; aid from Italian peasant; character of journey northwards; crossing into Switzerland.
REEL 8 Continues: move to Bern; eye treatment in Geneva; work for British Consulate in Geneva; plans to escape across France; social contacts in Geneva; crossing into France, 3/1944; journey to Lyons; refuge with Resistance in Lyons; apocryphal story of forced labour evaders period as ape substitute; in hiding Cinema distributors.
REEL 9 Continues: arrangement for new cover story; journey from Lyons to Toulouse; plans to cross Pyrenees; crossing Pyrenees; arrival and arrest in Spain; interrogation by German; treatment in prison; release and return to GB via Gibraltar on board HMS Centurion, 4/1944.

ContextDescription
Naval Operations, 1939-1945: Submarines
Naval Operations, 1939-1945: Mediterranean, 1940-1945

Duration
270

NumberOfParts
9

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
McGeoch, Ian Lachlan Mackay

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

RelatedSoundFile
009858S01.mp3
McGeoch-waratsea.mp3

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750
900

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WebStatus
Published

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17 November 2006

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Sound

Access
Private copyright - check copyright holder

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
10431

ProductionDate
5/Oct/1988

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexObjects
award, British: Victoria Cross <VC>

IndexPeople
Place, Basil Charles Godfrey VC xxx
Place, Godfrey VC xxx

IndexPlaces
GB, England
NO
DE

IndexUnits
GB.N & X-craft
DE.N & Tirpitz
DE.N & Scharnhorst
DE.O & POW Camp, Marlag and Milag Nord

ShortSummary
British officer served with X craft during attack on Tirpitz, Norway, 9/1943 for which he was awarded Victoria Cross; POW in Marlag and Milag Nord, Germany, 1943-1945

FullSummary
REEL 1 Recollections of period preparing for X-craft operation against Tirpitz, 1942-1943: specifications of X-craft; his selection for Tirpitz operation; X-craft trials, 1942; problem of damp on electrics; problems of penetrating anti-submarine net; intelligence about Tirpitz's anchorage; plans for BBC code message; practicing on Scottish coast, 8/1943; X-craft crews he worked with; towing problems; question of charging on surface. Recollections of operation to sink Tirpitz in Norway, 9/1943: security arrangements; passing opportunity for sinking U-boat.
REEL 2 Continues: losses of X-craft during towing to target; problems with mine; entry into fjord; sight of Scharnhorst; surfacing in fjord; first sight of Tirpitz; character of anti-torpedo nets; method of attack; attempts to return through anti-submarine; effect of explosions on his X-craft; decision to abandon the craft; fate of other X-craft. Recollections of period as POW in Germany, 1943-1945: initial treatment by Germans; removal to Germany.
REEL 3 Continues: character of interrogation; conditions in Marlag and Milag Nord; abortive escape attempt; attitude of POWs to escapes; a successful escape attempt; anticipations of liberation; circumstances of liberation.

ContextDescription
Naval Operations: Submarines

Duration
90

NumberOfParts
3

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
Place, Basil Charles Godfrey

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

RelatedIWMItems
Place's VC is in IWM
Wartime recording of Place on 2441

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Place-waratsea.mp3

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750
900

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BelowTheWaves

WebStatus
Published

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17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
12278

ProductionDate
3/Oct/1991

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexPeople
Jewell, Norman Limbury Auchinleck xxx
Jewell, Bill xxx
Clark, Mark
Giraud, Henri
Martin, William

IndexPlaces
GB, England
GB, England & Devonport, Devon
KE
SC
MI
AC, North
AC, North & Bay of Biscay
IT, Sicily
IT & Genoa
FR
FR & Corsica

IndexUnits
GB.N & Osiris
GB.N & Otway
GB.N & L27
GB.N & Truant
GB.N & Seraph
GB.N & Submarine Service
FR.N & Surcouf

ShortSummary
British officer commanded submarine HMS Seraph during landing of Generals Mark Clark and Lemnitzer in North Africa prior to Operation Torch, 1942; rescued General Henri Giraud from south of France, 11/1943; involved in Allied Operation Mincemeat the 'Man Who Never Was' deception plans in Mediterranean, 7/1943

FullSummary
REEL 1 Background in Seychelles, Kenya and GB, 1913-1932: family; education. Enlistment and period with Royal Navy, 1932- 1939: pattern of early career; background for joining Submarine Service. Period as third officer aboard HMS Osiris in Mediterranean, 1939: sailing for Mediterranean, 9/1939; reaction of submarine captain to declaration of Second World War; knowledge of U-boat prior to 1939. Period as first lieutenant with HMS Otway in English Channel and GB, 1940: exercising with destroyers on anti-submarine; duties patrolling off Dunkirk, 5/1940; boarding party to French submarine Surcouf at Devonport, summer 1940. Period as first lieutenant with HMS Truant in Atlantic and Mediterranean, 1940-1941: joining ship, 12/1940; release of British and Norwegian POWs from German ships in Bay of Biscay, 1/1941; operations off west coast of Italy, early 1941.
REEL 2 Continues: medical problems with his back; German mining of Suez Canal, summer 1941; voyage from Egypt to GB, 1941. Period as submarine captain of L27 in GB and Atlantic, 1941-1942: taking command, late 1941; abortive attack on U-boat; damage sustained on voyage across Atlantic; leaving submarine, early 1942. Recollections of operations as submarine captain of HMS Seraph in Atlantic and Mediterranean, 1942-1943: first patrol off North Cape, 6/1942; accidental attack on submarine by RAF in Bay of Biscay, summer 1942; transporting Combined Operations Party group to map landing beaches for Operation Torch; landing Generals Mark Clark and Lemnitzer on North African coast; rescuing General Henri Giraud from south of France, 11/1942.
REEL 3 Continues: award of US medal for his role in operation; taking US rangers to survey Lampedusa Island, 12/1942; collision with U-boat off Cape Bon; torpedo attack on U- boat, 12/1942; Operation Mincemeat planting of 'The Man Who Never Was' off Andalucian coast, spring 1943; briefing for Sicily invasion and impression of General George Patton; marking of US beaches for Sicilian landings, 7/1943; picking up US soldiers from sea during Sicilian landings.
REEL 4 Continues: attacks on Axis shipping off Italy, 7/1943; landing commandos at Genoa; under depth charging off Corsica; sinking of Axis landing craft off Italy, summer 1943; operations in Eastern Mediterranean; torpedoing of Axis seaplane in Greek Island, autumn 1943; abortive plan to send submarine into Black Sea, late 1943; lecture tour in US after leaving submarine, early 1944.

ContextDescription
Naval Operations: Submarines
Naval Operations, 1939-1945: Mediterranean, 1940-1945

Duration
120

NumberOfParts
4

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
Jewell, Norman Limbury Auchinleck 'Bill'

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

RelatedIWMItems
photocopied photograph in file

RelatedSoundFile
012278S01.mp3
Jewell-waratsea.mp3

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750
900

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BelowTheWaves

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Published

UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
12571

ProductionDate
14/May/1992

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexObjects
film, German: 'Das Boot'

IndexPeople
Hezlet, Arthur Richard xxx

IndexPlaces
GB, England
GB, England & Gosport, Hants
GB, England & Devonport, Devon
GB, Northern Ireland
GB, Northern Ireland & Co Londonderry
GB, Scotland
GB, Scotland & River Clyde
NO
NO & Norway
IE, North Sea
IE
AI
AI & North Cape
ID, Sumatra
MY
MY & Penang
IC
IC & Malacca Strait
IC & Lombok Strait
IC & Banka Strait
TH
TH & Pukit
LK
LK & Trincomalee
AU
AU & Perth

IndexUnits
GB.N & Trident
GB.N & Unique
GB.N & Thrasher
GB.N & Trenchant
GB.N & Ursula
GB.N & H 44
GB.N & X 5
DE.N & Ship, Posidonia
DE.N & Ship, Clare Hugo Stinnis
GB.N & Fort Blockhouse, Gosport
FR.N & Cachelot
GB.N & P32
GB.N & P33
DE.N & U 859
IT.O & Ship, Esperia
IT.O & Ship, Bebe
JP.N & Ashigara

ShortSummary
British officer served aboard submarine HMS Trident in North Sea, 1939-1940; commanded submarines HMS Unique, HMS Ursula, HMS Trident and HMS Thrasher in Mediterranean, Arctic and North Sea, 1941-1943; commanded submarine HMS Trenchant in Far East, 1944-1945

FullSummary
REEL 1 Recollections of operations as first lieutenant aboard submarine HMS Trident, 1939-1940: reaction to declaration of Second World War, 9/1939; patrolling off west coast of Ireland; improvements in submarine construction immediately pre-1939; apprehensions about diving after HMS Thetis disaster, 1939; objectives of North Sea patrols; sight of German ships heading north towards Norway, 4/1940; sinking of Posidonia off Norway, 8/4/1940; German merchant seamen POWs on board, 4/1940; penetration of fiord south of Bergen, 4/1940; driving Clare Hugo Stinnis aground; nervousness about making any noise on diving; operating off North Cape; problems with lightness at night; narrow escapes during Norway campaign. Aspects of command training in GB, 1940-1941: character of training at Fort Blockhouse, Gosport; manning anti-aircraft guns at Gosport.
REEL 2 Continues: training on River Clyde and submarine H 44, late 1940; embarking on board submarine Cachelot for passage to Malta; sight of devastation in Devonport, spring 1941. Recollections of operations as commander of submarine HMS Unique in Mediterranean, 1941: role as spare submarine commander in Malta; uneventful patrol in HMS Upholder before taking command of HMS Unique; patrol off Tripoli with submarines P32 and P33; interception of convoy off Tripoli in which he torpedoed Italian troopship, Esperia; attack by Italian flying boat on submarine. Recollections of operations as commander of submarine HMS Ursula in Mediterranean, 1941- 1942: attack on convoy off North Africa in which torpedo missed; damage to Italian ship, Bebe, c10/1941; question of missing German capital ship break-out in English Channel. Aspects of operations commanding submarine HMS Trident in North Sea and Arctic, 1942: taking command; uneventful patrol off northern Norway.
REEL 3 Continues: escorting Arctic convoys. Aspects of period as instructor of X-craft crews and commanding HMS Thrasher during attack on Tirpitz, 1942-1943: opinion of X-craft crews; towing X5 from HMS Thrasher; question of chances of X-craft's success. Recollections of operations as commander of submarine HMS Trenchant in Far East, 1944-1945: capture of Japanese POWs off Sumatra; behaviour of Japanese POWs on board; transporting commandos to Sumatra; attempt of commandos to take Indonesian prisoner; c9/1944; sinking of German U-859 off Penang, late 1944; behaviour of German POWs on board; 4 inch gun actions in Malacca Straits including sinking of Japanese chaser; launching of chariots at Pukit, Thailand; problems of caring for casualties on board; transporting US marine officer to Trincomalee; move of submarine flotilla to Perth, 1945.
REEL 4 Continues: problems of penetrating Lombok Strait; actions of north coast of Java; order to intercept Japanese cruiser in Banka Strait; evading Japanese destroyer in Banka Strait; sinking of Japanese cruiser Ashigara in Banka Strait, 8/6/1945. Reflections of his service with submarines, 1939-1945: relations between submarine captain and crew; question of qualities need by successful submarine captain; attitude towards Japanese and Germans; attitude towards serving in Far East in contrast to Mediterranean; relationship with other submarine captains; opinion of German film 'Das Boot'; quality of life in British submarines; standard of health.
REEL 5 Continues: question of strain on submariners; quality of submarine crews.

ContextDescription
Naval Operations, 1939-1945: Norway, 1940
Naval Operations, 1939-1945: Far East, 1941-1945
Naval Operations: Submarines

Duration
150

NumberOfParts
5

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
Hezlet, Arthur Richard

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

RelatedSoundFile
Hezlet-waratsea.mp3

Weighting
750
900

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
13107

ProductionDate
16/Mar/1993

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexPeople
Miles, Frank William xxx

IndexPlaces
GB, England
GB, England & Dover, Kent
GB, Scotland
GB, Scotland & Blyth
GB, Scotland & Invergordon
GB, Scotland & Lerwick
JP
HK
ID, Sumatra
MI
MT
LK

IndexUnits
GB.N & Ganges
GB.N & Parthian
GB.N & Tribune
GB.N & Regent
GB.N & York
GB.N & Vernon
GB.N & H31
GB.N & Flotilla, China
GB.N & Convoy PQ 17
GB.N & Convoy PQ 18
GB.N & Submarine Service
DE.N & Admiral Scheer
IT.N & Vittorio Veneto
DE.N & Tirpitz

ShortSummary
British boy seaman trained at HMS Ganges, GB, 1925; seaman served aboard HMS York during Invergordon Mutiny, 1931; served aboard submarine HMS Parthian in Far East, 1933-1936; petty officer served aboard submarines H31and HMS Regent in GB coastal waters and China, 1938-1941; served aboard submarine HMS Tribune in Arctic, 1941-1942

FullSummary
REEL 1 Background in Dover, 1910-1925: family; education; joining Royal Navy, 1925. Period as boy seaman in HMS Ganges, 1925: character of training; behaviour of gunnery instructor; nature of rations; requirement to learn to swim; electrical and torpedo training at HMS Vernon after leaving HMS Ganges. Period as seaman aboard HMS York during the Invergordon Mutiny, 1931: background to mutiny; organisation of mutiny; question of significance of mutiny; effect of reading riot act; reasons for volunteering for Submarine Service, 5/5/1932. Attitude to serving in Submarine Service. Recollections of period as torpedoman aboard submarine in HMS Parthian in Far East, 1933-1936: joining submarine after training at HMS Dolphin; anti-piracy patrols in Hong Kong area; nature of life for submariners.
REEL 2 Continues: taking advantage of devaluation of the yen in Japan, 1935. Period as coxwain aboard submarine H31 in GB, 1937-1938: character of submarine; drafting to HMS Regent on China Flotilla, 10/1938. Recollections of operations as coxwain with HMS Regent in Far East and Mediterranean, 1938- 1941: initial duties in Far East; hearing declaration of Second World War, 3/9/1939; beaching during hunting for Admiral Scheer off Sumatra; character of submarine work in Far East; medical work he did on board; move to Mediterranean, 1940; patrolling in Mediterranean; torpedo attack on Vittorio Veneto.
REEL 3 Continues: breaking surface in middle of Italian fleet after attack and diving to avoid depth charging; righting of submarine after emergency dive; narrow escape from Italian destroyer on way to Adriatic, 10/1940; ramming of submarine by Italian vessel; sinking of Italian merchantman; period in Malta whilst submarine under repair; sight of Italian hospital ship in Mediterranean; losses amongst submariners. Recollections of operations with HMS Tribune in Arctic, 1941-1942: joining submarine at Blyth; question of German engineers role in installing engines; encounter with German fleet in Norway prior to Convoy PQ 17; use of sanctuaries; screen for PQ 17; false report from Russian submarine that she had hit Tirpitz.
REEL 4 Continues: buzzing of submarine by German aircraft off Lerwick at time of PQ 18; danger from floating mines. Period on shore duties in Far East, 1944-1945: administrative confusion accompanying posting; organising rest and recreation camp in Ceylon, 7/1944-8/1945.

ContextDescription
Naval Operations: Submarines
Naval Operations, 1939-1945: Mediterranean, 1940-1945
Naval Operations, 1939-1945: Arctic, 1941-1945
Naval Operations, 1919-1939: The Royal Navy, 1919-1939

Duration
120

NumberOfParts
4

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
Miles, Frank William

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

RelatedSoundFile
Miles-seawarfare.mp

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750
900

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Published

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17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
16570

ProductionDate
10/Jun/1996

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexPeople
Jaques, Geoffrey xxx

IndexPlaces
GB, England
AU

IndexUnits
GB.N & Service, Submarine
GB.N & Tiptoe
GB.N & Anchorite
GB.N & Telemachus
GB.N & Amphion
GB.N & Finwale
GB.N & Orsonia
GB.N & Ocelot
GB.N & Trump
GB.N & Revenge

IndexConcepts
Cold War

ShortSummary
British officer served with Submarine Service, 1956-1970 including commanding nuclear submarine HMS Revenge

FullSummary
REEL 1 Background in GB, 1935-1956: family; education. Enlistment and training with Submarine Service, 1950s: reasons for enlistment with service; reasons for volunteering for Submarine Service; training aboard submarine HMS Tiptoe; method of diving submarines and controlling movement underwater; character of torpedoes; character of submarine crews; discipline; escape training. Aspects of period as officer with Submarine Service, 1950s-1960s: navigating HMS Anchorite from GB to Australia; duties in Australia; return to GB aboard Telemachus; method of avoiding gales at sea; drafting to HMS Amphion.
REEL 2 Continues: attitude to operating under ice flow in HMS Amphion; period with HMS Finwhale; conditions on board A Class submarines, 1950s; duties on depot ship HMS Orsonia; drafting to HMS Ocelot; character of 'perisher' course and taking commanding of HMS Trump in Australia; responsibilities for crew and their families.
REEL 3 Continues: Recollections of period as first lieutenant aboard nuclear submarine HMS Revenge from 1966: character of submarine; controlling atmosphere; contrast between diesel and nuclear submarines; question of limitations of submarines; avoiding Russian surveillance; size of patrol areas; targeting of Polaris missiles; monitoring of Polaris missile; question of having to fire Polaris missiles; watch system; health, fitness and recreation for crew.
REEL 4 Continues: medical facilities on board; alcohol on board; custom inspections on return to GB; career after leaving HMS Revenge.

ContextDescription
Service Operations Since 1945

Duration
110

NumberOfParts
4

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
Jaques, Geoffrey

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

RelatedSoundFile
Jaques-waratsea.mp3

Weighting
750
900

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

WebStatus
Published

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17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
17274

ProductionDate
23/Jan/1997

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexObjects
film, German: 'Das Boot'

IndexPeople
Lane-Nott, Roger xxx
Woodward, Sandy
Thatcher, Margaret

IndexPlaces
AC, South
GB, Scotland
GB, Scotland & Firth of Clyde
GB, Scotland & Faslane
GB, England
GB, England & Portsmouth, Hants
GB, England & Barrow in Furness, Cumbria
GB, England & Greenwich, London
GB, England & Birkenhead, Cheshire
FK
FK & Falkland Sound

IndexUnits
GB.N & Splendid
GB.N & Revenge
GB.N & Spartan
GB.N & Swiftsure
GB.N & Conqueror
GB.N & Walrus
GB.N & Rorqual
GB.N & Fleet Headquarters, Northwood
GB.N & Service, Submarine
AR.N & Belgrano
AR.N & Veintecinco de Mayo

IndexConcepts
Nuclear warfare
Cold war

ShortSummary
British officer commanded submarine HMS Splendid during Falkland Islands war, 1982

FullSummary
REEL1 Recollections of period as submarine officer with Submarine Service, 1966-1981: various craft served in; nuclear submarine training at Greenwich, 1968-1969; joining HMS Revenge at Birkenhead, 1969; work as supply officer on HMS Revenge; colleagues in HMS Revenge's wardroom, 1969-1971; navigation course before joining HMS Conqueror; hunt for Russian submarine off western Scotland, 1972, learning about central control of submarines; being selected for submarine command course, 1974; attending 'Perisher' course.
REEL 2 Continues: training in HMS Rorqual, 1975; life on Perisher course on the Firth of Clyde, opinion of Perisher course; taking command of HMS Walrus, 1975; aspects of work with HMS Walrus, 1975-1976 and at submarines Fleet Headquarters, Northwood, 1977-1978; posting to HMS Swiftsure during IPC's industrial dispute; launching of nuclear submarine HMS Splendid at Barrow in Furness, 10/1979; personal interest of Prime Minister Mrs.Margaret Thatcher in HMS Splendid, 12/1979; standing by HMS Splendid at Barrow in Furness, 1980.
REEL 3 Continues: commissioning of HMS Splendid, 1981; story of commissioning Royal Marine band; submarine personnel; recall to Faslane; pursuit of Russian submarine contact. Recollections of operations as commander of HMS Spendid during Falklands War, 1982: receiving signal of Falklands crisis from First Sea Lord; leaving Scotland as HMS Spartan left Gibraltar; lack of knowledge of purpose of sailing for South Atlantic; effects of having concentrated on the Russian threat for so long; lack of knowledge of Argentinian Navy; types of torpedo taken; preparations for voyage; speed of voyage to South Atlantic; newness of some crew members, question of 'hawks' and 'doves'; satellite communications with Fleet Headquarters, Northwood; sense of burdon of responsibilty, attitude to going into war against unknown quantity; diesel vs. nuclear submarines, training; arrival in South Atlantic after eleven days voyage, before the assembling of task Force at Portsmouth; change in rules of engagement; division of responsibility with HMS Spartan; opinion of command and control, nature of information recieved from GB.
REEL 4 Continues: story of valve triggering false alarm of Argentinian submarine in attack mode, awaiting Argentinian attack and its effect on crew; keeping crew fully informed; importance of BBC World Service; positioning north of Falklands Sound to block aircraft carrier Veintecinco de Mayo, 4/1982; difficulty in evaluating credibility of pieces of intelligence; question of changes in rules of engagement according to changes in diplomatic sphere; monitoring escorts of enemy carrier, 26-27/4/1982 including quotes using facts from Max Hastings 'Battle of the Falklands' book; sighting entire Argentinian escort fleet and anticipating of movement of aircraft carrier, removal of rules of engagment; reaction to communiques from Sandy Woodward and Fleet Headquarters, Northwood to break contact with escort; atmosphere in ship during second shadowing of Veintecinco de Mayo, loss of visual contact due to fog.
REEL 5 Continues: attitude towards operating in Falklands Sound; reaction to need for situation reports; attitude towards sinking of Belgrano; Argentinian fear of nuclear submarines; technical problems with reactor, parachuting in spares, fear of running out of batteries; morale, importance of discussions with crew and question of 'hawks' and 'doves'; opinion of film, 'Das Boot'; reaction to waiting whilst Royal Navy suffered losses; opinion of post-Falklands Belgrano debate; key potential role of Argnentinian aircraft carrier; opinion of British naval forces' inability to locate aircraft carrier.
REEL 6 Continues: reconnaissance work off Argentinian airfields; voyage back to GB, 6/1982; ability of nuclear submarines to respond quickly; opinion of performance of HMS Splendid's crew.

ContextDescription
Naval Operations, 1975-2005: Falklands War, 1982
Naval Operations: Submarines

Duration
160

NumberOfParts
6

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
Lane-Nott, Roger

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

RelatedSoundFile
Lane-Nott-waratsea.mp3

Weighting
750
900

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BelowTheWaves

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
Educational use only

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Exhibits

IDNO
MAR 558

ProductionDate
1944

ItemName
Submersible, Midget Submarine Biber 90, German

IndexPeople
Langsdorff , Joachim (The dead pilot in the Biber 90, (see Additional information) was the son of the famous Captain Hans Langsdorff of the Graf Spee and the Battle of the River Plate)

IndexPlaces
North Sea & the Channel

IndexUnits
K-Force ( Kleinkampfmittel-Verband), Kriegsmarine

FullSummary
The German Biber one-man submarine was developed in early 1944 as part of the K-Force intended to meet the threat of Allied invasion. Bibers were primarily equipped with two G 7e 21-inch torpedoes and were first used operationally in August 1944. They were not an effective weapon, because of the inadequate design and poorly trained personnel, although 324 Bibers were constructed.
Biber No 90 with its dead operator were discovered drifting off the North Foreland by the minesweeper HMS Ready in December 1944 and it was later tested extensively by the Royal Navy. It was acquired by the Imperial War Museum in 1946.

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BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 11:14:35

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Exhibits

FormatDescription
Biber One-Man Submarine

DeptName
Exhibits

IDNO
OMD 3954

ItemName
Victoria Cross & VC

ObjectType
medal

IndexPeople
Place, B C G (Lieutenant)
Place, B C G (Rear Admiral)

IndexPlaces
Kaafjord, Norway

IndexUnits
GB.N & Royal Navy & X7

FullSummary
Born in Worcestershire, on 19 July 1921, Godfrey Place entered the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth at 13 and was a midshipman at the outbreak of war in 1939. After winning the Distinguished Service Cross in 1942, he took command of X7, one of three midget submarines assigned to attack the German battleship Tirpitz in Kaa Fiord, Norway, on 22 September 1943. During the attack, the X7 twice became entangled in anti-torpedo nets but broke free and surfaced close to the Tirpitz. It struck the German battleship's side and slid under the keel, where Place released his starboard explosive charge. He then went astern for some 200 feet and dropped the port charge. As Place tried to get away, X7 was again caught in the nets and came under fire, eventually being shaken free by the explosion of the charges. With compasses and diving gauges out of action, Place decided to abandon ship. Two of the crew were drowned and Place and another officer became prisoners of war. The attack immobilised the Tirpitz for several months. Both Place and Lieutenant Donald Cameron - who commanded X6 - were awarded the Victoria Cross. The announcement of the award of the VC to Place appeared in the London Gazette, 22 February 1944. On his release from prison camp, Godfrey Place resumed his naval career, transferring to the Fleet Air Arm where he qualified as a fixed wing jet pilot. He flew on operations during the Korean War. Place's later sea-going commands included HMS Corunna and the commando carrier HMS Albion. His last active appointment was as Rear Admiral Commanding Reserves. At the date of his retirement in 1970, Place was the Royal Navy's last serving VC holder. From 1971, until shortly before his death on 27 Dec 1994, Rear Admiral Godfrey Place VC CB CVO DSC was Chairman of the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association. The Museum also holds the medals of Rear Admiral Place's father who won a DSO and MC while serving in The East Surrey Regiment during the First World War.

ProductionCompany
Hancock & Co, London

RelatedIWMItems
OMD 3955-3970 : OMD 3971-3975

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 11:14:35

URLEncodedDeptName
Exhibits

FormatDescription
The design of the Victoria Cross, comprises a cross pattee in bronze metal: The obverse design depicts a crown surmounted by 'lion gardant', beneath the crown a scroll bearing the motto `FOR VALOUR'. The whole in the centre of the cross, having raised borders outlining its shape. Reverse design, a circle, at centre of plain reverse (raised borders outline cross shape). The suspender bar is straight bar, laurelled, with integral 'V' lug the reverse of the suspender bar is plain. The ribbon is red (the term used in the original warrant) although this description of the colour is often qualified by the use of terms such as claret, maroon, dark red. The bar (when awarded) is a straight bar, laurelled. This example is engraved LIEUT. BASIL C.G.PLACE, ROYAL NAVY. The recipient's name and service details are inscribed on the reverse of the suspension bar, and the date of the action, 1943 is inscribed on the reverse of the medal in the central boss.

Access
On display at IWM London

DeptName
Exhibits

IDNO
MOD 662

ItemName
Type VII U-Boat Submarine

ObjectType
model

IndexUnits
DE.N & German Navy

FullSummary
The Type VIIC U-Boat was the most widely used German submarine in the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War.
They had five torpedo tubes (four in the bow, one in the stern) and carried 14 torpedoes, and were also armed with one 8.8cm deck gun and a 2cm anti-aircraft gun mounted at the rear of the conning tower.

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

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30/06/2006 11:14:35

URLEncodedDeptName
Exhibits

FormatDescription
A moderately well detailed full-hull model, that approximates to a Type VIIC.
It is made of wood to a scale of 1/48, and is 55in x 5in x 13in high.

Access
On display at IWM London

DeptName
Exhibits

IDNO
EQU 2414

ProductionDate
1938

ItemName
`Davis' Submarine escape apparatus, Royal Navy

ObjectType
survival equipment

IndexPeople
none

IndexUnits
GB.N & RN Submarine Service

FullSummary
The ` Davis' escape apparatus was used in British submarines from 1930 to 1953. In addition to the main equipment a nose clip and goggles were also issued.

ProductionCompany
Siebe, Gorman and Co Limited, London

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

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30/06/2006 11:14:35

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Exhibits

FormatDescription
U shaped brown rubber inflatable 'bag'; in crutch of 'U' is square breathing apparatus with cloth covered rubber concertina tube coming from its top centre. At top of tube is a metal valve with opening/closing arm leading to a rubber mouth piece with blue cloth strap. A sprung black rubber nose piece is attached to the breathing tube by a piece of string. An adjustable neck strap is at the top of the 'bag'. A flap of rubberised cloth extends from the bottom edge of the main body, is rolled and retained by a string tie. Along the bottom of the main body is an oxygen bottle retained in a sleeve. A rubber tube comes out of the right bottom side, leading to a brass tap which is screwed onto to end of the oxygen bottle. A gas escape valve is located on the bottom on the left side with an opening arm to its side and a black rubber anti-back flow flap on its base. Another rubber tube comes out of the left bottom side of the main body. Main markings on the equipment are as follows: SUBMARINE ESCAPE APPARATUS DAVIS'S PATENT. SIEBE, GORMAN & Co Ltd. LONDON (embossed on front of main body). 24 .6 38. 27 . 6 . 38 . E 667589 2C FT OXYGEN J ^ RB 38 BB AV 38 AV BB 44 BB (stamped on nozzle end of oxygen bottle). WEIGHT FULL 971 GRAMMES C T C O 667589 (stamped on base end of oxygen bottle). SIEBE GORMAN & Co Ltd LONDON MADE IN ENGLAND (embossed on rubber mouth piece)

Access
On display at IWM London

DeptName
Exhibits

IDNO
MUN 4584

ItemName
German Type 1 Sea Mine

ObjectType
mine

IndexPeople
George V, HM King

IndexUnits
DE.N

FullSummary
First World War German Type 1 sea mine which was laid by German naval forces during the raid on Scarborough, 16 December 1914. The mine was eventually cleared by a vessel of the Grimsby mine sweeping flotilla.
The first mines used at sea were the moored type, using an electrical or chemical firing device. At the turn of the 19th century, the Russians and the Germans were regarded as being the leading exponents of mine warfare; the Russians' experience going back to the war against Turkey in 1877 and the Crimean War. The British had dabbled in mines at the end of the 19th century, but initially only regarded the weapon as being useful in harbour defence. The outbreak of the First World War saw mines used immediately, when the Germans used surface ships to lay mines off the British coast. The British mines suffered many failures, due to the firing switch used. The Germans, however, used the Hertz horn, a glass phial filled with sulphuric acid, and when this was broken, the acid made a wet-cell battery 'live' and completed the firing circuit. The British copied the more successful Hertz horn for the H2 type mine in 1917.

RelatedIWMItems
see file

RelatedImageFile
MUN_004584.jpg

Weighting
1000
900

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 11:14:35

URLEncodedDeptName
Exhibits

FormatDescription
First World War German Type 1 sea mine bearing the following painted commemorative inscription: 'This German (Type 1) Mine was laid off Scarborough during the raid of 16th Dec 1914 and was swept up by the Grimsby mine sweeping flotilla. Presented by / Capt. F. Massy- Dawson, R.N. Port Mine Sweeping Officer Grimsby'. The mine which is incomplete (broken horns) is 33in in diameter.

Access
On display at IWM North

DigitalAsset
Y

IWMImageOwned
Y

DeptName
Exhibits

IDNO
UNI 1124

ItemName
coat, tail, Full Dress, Commander, Royal Navy

ObjectType
uniform

IndexPeople
Holbrook, N D (Commander VC)

IndexUnits
GB.N & Royal Navy & Submarine B11

FullSummary
On 13 December 1914, in the Dardanelles, Lieutenant Holbrook was in command of the submarine B11, an old and nearly obsolete craft built in 1905. Notwithstanding the difficulties of the treacherous current in the Straits, Holbrook dived under five rows of mines and torpedoed and sank the important Turkish battleship Messudiyeh, which was guarding the minefield. He then succeeded in bringing the B11 back to the Mediterranean, in spite of being attacked by enemy gunfire and torpedo boats. When they reached safety the B11 had been submerged for over nine hours.
Norman Douglas Holbrook was born on 9 July 1888 in Hampshire. The award of his VC was gazetted on 22 December 1914. He subsequently served in the Second World War at the Admiralty and died at his home in West Sussex on 3 July 1976.

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
18/10/2006 05:51:07

URLEncodedDeptName
Exhibits

FormatDescription
Full dress tail coat formerly belonging to the late Commander Norman Holbrook VC, Royal Navy, HM Submarine B11.

Access
On display at IWM London

DeptName
Exhibits

IDNO
UNI 1125

ItemName
trousers, Full Dress, Commander, Royal Navy

ObjectType
uniform

IndexPeople
Holbrook, N D (Commander VC)

IndexUnits
GB.N & Royal Navy & Submarine B11

FullSummary
On 13 December 1914, in the Dardanelles, Lieutenant Holbrook was in command of the submarine B11, an old and nearly obsolete craft built in 1905. Notwithstanding the difficulties of the treacherous current in the Straits, Holbrook dived under five rows of mines and torpedoed and sank the important Turkish battleship Messudiyeh, which was guarding the minefield. He then succeeded in bringing the B11 back to the Mediterranean, in spite of being attacked by enemy gunfire and torpedo boats. When they reached safety the B11 had been submerged for over nine hours.
Norman Douglas Holbrook was born on 9 July 1888 in Hampshire. The award of his VC was gazetted on 22 December 1914. He subsequently served in the Second World War at the Admiralty and died at his home in West Sussex on 3 July 1976.

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
18/10/2006 05:51:07

URLEncodedDeptName
Exhibits

FormatDescription
Full dress trousers formerly belonging to the late Commander Norman Holbrook VC, Royal Navy, HM Submarine B11.

Access
On display at IWM London

DeptName
Film

IDNO
GWY 1217

ProductionDate
1940

ItemName
U-BOOT FEINDFAHRT : Herbst 1940 [Main]
[U-BOAT ENEMY PATROL : Autumn 1940] [translation]

IndexObjects
ships, German naval - submarine: U-99
journalism and record, German: cameraman
equipment, German naval - camera: Askania (?)
ceremonies, German - event-related: investiture
operations, German naval - routine: submarine
combat, German - submarine

IndexPeople
Kretschmer, Otto
Petersen, Heinrich

IndexUnits
DE.N & U-99

ShortSummary
Compilation of library material and actuality film of ace commander Otto Kretschmer of «U-99» suggests typically successful U-boat patrol.

FullSummary
Subtitled A camera reporter accompanies Kapitänleutnant Kretschmer, from Deutsche Wochenschau S 7014 (K). Cameraman wearing naval cap lifts turret-lens camera (Askania ?) to his eye to film. Crew on conning tower of small U-boat signal with flags. Lookout scans horizon. Crew wear oils as U-boat passes through heavy seas. Title introduces Kapitänleutnant Kretschmer over chart in his cabin. Alarm sequence has crew tumble out of bunks and rush to action stations, closing hatch and diving. Kretschmer at periscope sights freighter and command to fire torpedo is given. Stopwatch measures torpedo's path until Kretschmer sees (another) freighter sinking. U-boat steams at full speed ahead through heavy seas, then signaller receives message that Führer has awarded Kretschmer the Oak Leaves (4/11/1940) and Obersteuermann Heinrich Petersen the Knights Cross. Crew congratulate pair and U-boat steams on through heavy seas.

ContextDescription
Summary: Kretschmer commanded Type VIIB U-99 from June 1940 to March 1941. Petersen was his Watch Officer
Acquisition: captured German material transferred from Admiralty

Duration
2 mins

Format
P 1/35/N

Colour
B&W

Sound
Silent

NumberOfParts
1

Dimensions
189 ft

ProductionCompany
UFA

ProductionCountry
Germany

Language
None

LanguageMainTitles
German

LanguageSubtitles
German

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:20:43

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
IWM-GERMAN

DeptName
Film

IDNO
COI 165

ProductionDate
1940

ItemName
UNDERSEA PATROL [Main]

IndexObjects
operations, British naval - routine
operations, British naval - maintenance: submarine
recreation, British naval - casual
ships, British auxiliary - assistance: Forth
ships, British naval - submarine: Ursula

IndexUnits
GB.A & Forth
GB.A & Ursula

ShortSummary
Made with Admiralty cooperation, the film shows "how high-speed servicing enables British submarines to maintain ceaseless watch for the German Fleet."

FullSummary
Two submarines emerge from mist; the film focuses on one of them, «HMS Ursula», "heroine of the River Elbe exploit". Smiling crew members climb out, and board «HMS Forth», the submarine depot ship. The submarine is refuelled and replenished with water; diesel exhausts emit smoke as batteries are recharged. Onboard «Forth», «Ursula's» crew receive letters from home, and attend to their hygiene: washing, shaving, doing their laundry, having baths and showers. In the galley, they eat generous meals - the depot ship is designed to give the crew "maximum relaxation and comfort during their few days in port" - and enjoy a "man-sized" rum ration. The crew relax by playing darts, cards and chess with crew members of «Forth»; there is much jollity. The ships "spacious" sick bay is shown: convalescents relax in bunk beds, reading, writing and smoking cigarettes; operating theatre; medical inspections, dentist. Officers relax in the wardroom. Classes are held for men studying for promotion (trigonometry lecture shown). Ship's foundry builds spare parts from scratch. Torpedoes are serviced and hoisted aboard «Ursula» through the conning tower, and food is loaded crate-by-crate through hatch. A few brief interior shots of «Ursula» are shown. She submerges until only her periscope is visible, as the crew "set out to wrest honour and glory from the jaws of death".

ContextDescription
Remarks: quite interesting and informative.

Duration
6 mins

Format
P 1/35/A

Colour
B&W

Sound
comopt

NumberOfParts
1

Dimensions
552 ft

ProductionSponsor
Ministry of Information

ProductionCompany
Olympic Pictures

ProductionCountry
GB

Language
English

LanguageMainTitles
English

LanguageSubtitles
None

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:20:43

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
UPU

DeptName
Film

IDNO
GWY 784

ProductionDate
9/1917

ItemName
der MAGISCHE GÜRTEL [Main]
the ENCHANTED CIRCLE [translation]
GERMAN SUBMARINE U-35 IN 1917 [ledger title]

IndexObjects
animals, reptiles: turtle
ships, - : Parkgate
ships, - : Maplewood
ships, German naval - submarine: U-35
ships, - : Asuarca
ships, - : India
ships, - : Miss Morris
ships, - : Stromboli
ships, - : Patagonia
ships, - : Corfu
ships, - : Nentmoor
ships, - : Brisbane River
ships, - : Helgoland
operations, German naval - sortie: submarine
prisoners of war, British - detention: naval captains

IndexPlaces
Mediterranean Sea

IndexUnits
DE.N
GB.N
HU.N

ShortSummary
A record of a voyage by the «U-35» from 31 March to 5 May 1917, sinking merchant ships in the Mediterranean and Eastern Atlantic. Titles identify the ships and their cargoes and emphasise the bloodless nature of the submarine's victories.

FullSummary
(Reel 1) «U-35» leaves Cattaro. Armed steamer «Parkgate» shelled and sunk, then boilers explode. Meeting another U-Boat. «Maplewood» surrenders before being torpedoed. Cleaning guns. Checking papers of neutral Spanish «Asuarca», allowed to proceed. «India» boarded by destruction party and sunk. (Reel 2) Schooner «Miss Morris» sinking after crew have abandoned her. Lifting large turtles aboard the «U-35». Armed steamer «Stromboli» boarded by destruction party, Shelled and sunk. Sunrise off Algiers; bearings taken from sun. «Patagonia» sinks. U-Boat crew on deck. Through heavy seas. «Corfu» shelled and sunk. (Reel 3) Sinking of «Brisbane River». Kapitänleutnant de la Perière examines Lloyd's Register. Crew of «U-35» bathe in Atlantic. View of rocky coastline and sinking ship. Five captured English captains taking morning stroll on deck of «U-35». «Nentmoor» armed with dummy gun shelled and sunk. Wireless message to Admiralty announcing return and ships sunk. Meeting cruiser «Helgoland». Entering Bay of Cattaro with a pennant flying for each victory. Officer of Austro-Hungarian Navy offers congratulations. Kapitänleutnant de la Perière off «U-35». Crew open letters from home. Closing images of submarine sailing into the sunset [sunrise ?] and of the naval ensign.

ContextDescription
Restoration/publication: this film was the subject of an IWMFVA restoration project, with funding from the European Lumiere Project, in the 1990s. In addition to providing the most complete and best available version of the pictorial content with reference to material from several other archives, the restoration replicated the colour tinting and toning effects of the original print and generated new intertitles (see below). The results were published by Lloyd's Register on behalf of the Museum in 2000, as a video with accompanying booklet, under the combined title "First World War U-Boat". As well as this film, the video includes the later British adaptation, the EXPLOITS OF A GERMAN SUBMARINE... (IWM 560), with music for both films specially commissioned from Ian Lynn. The booklet includes a detailed shotlist, as well as a number of historical essays about the films and their context, and several contemporary reviews
Title: the original title is confirmed (and explained, rather surprisingly, as a quotation from Winston Churchill) by contemporary German reviews.
Production: originally catalogued as a Messter film, because of markings on the print; however, contemporary reviews and subsequent research all confirm BUFA. Hans Brennert is described in some reviews as having "taken care of production", although his precise role is probably that of intertitle writer. The cameraman is named as Loeser in Hans Barkhausen, "Filmpropaganda für Deutschland in Ersten und Zweiten Weltkrieg".
Languages: the original intertitles were trilingual - German, French and Ottoman Turkish written in Arabic script. The identity of the third language was confirmed in 1997 by Professor Dr Tuncoku of Ankara (via Nigel Steel, Department of Documents). These have been replaced on the IWMFVA's restored print by new titles in German only, with English subtitles.

Duration
45 mins

Format
P 1/35/N

Colour
B&W (Tinted)

Sound
Silent

NumberOfParts
3

ProductionCompany
Bild- und Film Amt (BUFA)

ProductionTeam
Brennert, Hans: script
Loeser: cameraman

ProductionCountry
Germany

Language
None

LanguageMainTitles
German

LanguageSubtitles
German & English

RelatedIWMItems
Two (different) colour posters for the film in the Department of Art (reference PST 7268 and PST 8323). Also held (reference IWM:MED 549) is a silver commemorative medallion portraying Kapitänleutnant de la Perière and listing some of his successes
Photographic copy of the original hand-written Kriegstagebuch of the U-35, covering the period from 13 April 1917 (mid way through the voyage shown in the film) to 29 November 1918; held in the Department of Documents, catalogued as 'German Miscellaneous 123'.
Photograph Archive 'Q' series has many German official photographs relating to U-35 and to de la Perière, some from the filmed voyage, others not
16mm film can for the film "Deutsche U-Boot auf Kaperfahrt", a film issued in the Nazi era using some of the film shot in 1917. Department of Exhibits and Firearms, ref PHO 31

OtherReferences
Copy of the typewritten Kriegstagebuch for the whole of the voyage shown in the film
Thomas, Lowell : 1929 : Raiders of the Deep : Doubleday
Barkhausen, Hans : 1982 : Filmpropaganda für Deutschland im Ersten und Zweiten Weltkrieg : Georg Olms
Smither, Roger (ed) : 2000 : First World War U-Boat, A Guide... : Lloyd's Register

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
01/11/2006 05:50:21

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
IWM-GERMAN

DeptName
Film

IDNO
ADM 528

ProductionDate
1942 (ca)

ItemName
the SEVEN SEAS FRONT : Submarine [Main]
[HMS THUNDERBOLT IN THE MEDITERRANEAN] [alternative, allocated]

IndexObjects
ships, British naval - submarine: Thunderbolt
ships, British naval - submarine: Thetis
ships, British naval - submarine: T Class
society, British naval - friendship: Anglo-French fraternisation

IndexPeople
Bryant, B (Commander)

IndexPlaces
Egypt & Alexandria

IndexUnits
GB.N & Thunderbolt
GB.N & Thetis
GB.N & Maidstone

ShortSummary
'Faction' about a submarine patrol against Axis shipping in the Mediterranean.

FullSummary
A 'Reuters London Flash' announces that British submarines have scored further successes in the Mediterranean. Cut to HA from depot ship to «HMS Thunderbolt» refuelling alongside. MS of Commander Bryant at head of accommodation ladder. Crewmen returned from a patrol pose on deck - one has his beard pulled by a colleague. Sequence showing submarine entering port flying skull-and-crossbones flag denoting sinkings, gun engagements and two clandestine operations. This is contrasted with German U-boat crews coming ashore as prisoners from one of Walker's frigates. The submarine prepares for sea. External and internal views as a torpedo is taken onboard. Officers consult charts indicating operations in the Central Mediterranean. Submarine takes on foodstuffs. The patrol begins. Control room interior as the boat goes to Ahead Half. Submarine steaming at sea and then submerging. W/T operator receives a message. Officers plot the submarine's position. Aerial view showing the submarine clearly visible, running just below the surface and prominent feather from the raised periscope. Mix of interior and exterior shots as submarine surfaces. LA from focsle to conning tower. Battery compartment. Day for night shot of submarine on the surface. Officers play solitaire in the wardroom. Man asleep in a bunk. Interior LA from control room as officer dogs conning tower hatch. MS as submarine blows tanks and dives, and cut to exterior HA from periscope to forward deck as submarine submerges. Commander looks through periscope. Submarine surfaces and crew man and fire 4-inch gun - no target is visible. Submarine returns to base and CO goes ashore to report. The crew board a depot ship to enjoy a shower, the shop, a cup of tea in mess. HA of another T Class submarine - this boat is one of the third group with amidships torpedo tubes angled out to fire aft. «Thunderbolt» lies alongside the depot ship, one of the crew on deck reading a letter from home.

ContextDescription
Remarks: not perhaps very exciting, especially in comparison with German material covering U-boats in the Atlantic, but still a valuable piece in view of the general scarcity of British submarine material

Duration
8 mins

Format
P 2/35/A

Colour
B&W

Sound
Mute

NumberOfParts
1

Dimensions
728 ft

ProductionSponsor
[Admiralty]

ProductionCompany
Gaumont British News

ProductionCountry
GB

Language
None

LanguageMainTitles
English

LanguageSubtitles
None

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:20:43

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
UPU

DeptName
Film

IDNO
ADM 544

ProductionDate
1943

ItemName
[DEMONSTRATION OF THE HUMAN TORPEDO AND X-CRAFT] [Allocated]
[the ROYAL NAVY IN NORTHERN AND ATLANTIC WATERS] [series, allocated]

IndexObjects
ships, British naval - submarine, midget: X.25 (Extant)
ships, British naval - special operations: human torpedo

IndexPlaces
GB, Scotland & Loch Striven, Argyll (?)

IndexUnits
GB.N & X.25

ShortSummary
A human torpedo and the X-craft «Extant» are demonstrated in the waters of a Scottish loch.

FullSummary
A chariot, without warhead, is lowered into the water by a derrick on the cameraship - CU as it comes to deck level and HA onto the controls as crewmen fend it off the side - it is marked «X.S. 59» near the tail. Once in the water the chariot is boarded by two men in diving suits and Sladen breathing apparatus - the torpedo makes off, circles about near the cameraship, the crew's heads showing above water, then submerges and re-surfaces. The chariot returns to the ship and the crewmen climb onboard to be divested of their underwater gear. CU of the two crewmen without their suits. Cut to shot of midget submarine «X.25» underway on the surface of the loch, first being conned by her captain (Lieutenant) from the deck, and then closed up - she raises her periscope and dives. CU of periscope cutting the water. MSs of X-craft trimmed down and diving. LS-CU as the craft steams on the surface at speed - her commander looks to camera as the craft passes close by. CU fine on the port bow as the midget closes on the camera. Cut to scene onboard as divers are suited up. The two men walk along the deck to chariot (still without warhead) resting on a cradle - they mount the machine and the pilot works the controls. HA.CU onto control position - a man works the attitude control. The torpedo is lowered into the water, and the two divers climb down and board. MS sequence as the chariot runs just below the surface, porpoising. Continuation of X-craft sequence with MS-MCU as the midget closes on the cameraship - the name «Extant» and a leaping gazelle symbol are visible painted on the deck coaming - the Lieutenant who has been conning the ship goes below and the midget submerges. MS as she resurfaces. CU as the Lieutenant re-emerges and sets up the ship's ensign staff with flag. The captain poses framed in hatchway with his three-man crew behind him standing on the deck. He raises the air induction pipe.

Duration
10 mins

Format
P 1/35/A

Colour
B&W

Sound
Mute

NumberOfParts
1

Dimensions
947 ft

ProductionSponsor
[Admiralty]

ProductionCountry
GB

Language
None

LanguageMainTitles
None

LanguageSubtitles
None

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
30/01/2009 05:50:10

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
IWM

DeptName
Film

IDNO
ADM 3913

ProductionDate
15/2/1968

ItemName
[FIRST SUCCESSFUL POLARIS FIRING FROM A BRITISH SUBMARINE] [Allocated]
[POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS] [series, allocated]

IndexObjects
ships, British naval - submarine: Resolution & [nuclear]
ships, British naval - destroyer, radar picket: Aisne (D.22)
weapons, United States naval - missile: Polaris A3 & [British]

IndexPeople
Frewer, K D

IndexUnits
GB.N & Resolution
GB.N & Aisne

ShortSummary
First successful launch of a Polaris from a British submarine, «HMS Resolution». The test firing took place thirty miles off Cape Kennedy, Florida, over the Atlantic Missile Test Range.

FullSummary
LS to «Resolution's» temporary mast, marking the position of the submerged submarine. The Polaris breaks the surface of the water and climbs away - because of the rolling of the cameraship, the missile frequently slips out of frame. CU of Commander Frewer watching the test - he commanded «Resolution's» Starboard Crew, while the test was carried out by the submarine's Port Crew under the command of Commander M C Henry. CUs of US crewmen on the observing ship and one of the recording cameramen. «Resolution» returns to harbour and secures - she flies the flag of a Vice-Admiral, possibly that of Chief Polaris Executive, Sir Hugh Sterling Mackenzie. Also alongside is the Battle Class radar picket «HMS Aisne» (D.22).

ContextDescription
Remarks: the camerawork exhibited here would disgrace a home movie

Duration
3 mins

Format
P 1/35/A

Colour
B&W

Sound
Mute

NumberOfParts
1

Dimensions
300 ft

ProductionSponsor
Department of Public Relations, Ministry of Defence [Royal Navy]

ProductionCountry
GB

Language
None

LanguageMainTitles
None

LanguageSubtitles
None

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
30/01/2009 05:50:10

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
IWM

DeptName
Film

IDNO
COI 1122

ProductionDate
1976 (ca)

ItemName
STRENGTH IN DEPTH : the move to underwater [Main]

IndexObjects
ships, British naval - submarine
ships, British naval - submarine, nuclear: Polaris
strategy, British: nuclear deterrence
strategy, British: submarine warfare

IndexUnits
GB.N
NT.N

ShortSummary
The evolution of the submarine and its important rôle as a nuclear deterrent in the Royal Navy and NATO.

FullSummary
The age of the battleship as a deterrent is over; its role has been replaced by the submarine. Submarines are less vulnerable to aerial attack than surface ships, which is why they have been adopted for Britain's nuclear deterrent. However, a submarine naval blockade could compromise NATO and therefore the RN has also invested in anti-submarine measures. With the aid of diagrams, sonar tracking is explained and its drawbacks analysed. Helicopters can help in a submarine tracking role but also has drawbacks (they need a landing platform). Thus, today, there are submarines hunting submarines in the same environment with their own sonar. Descriptions of the three types of submarine used by the RN: (1) patrol submarines (diesel, patrolling a specific area); (2) fleet submarines (nuclear, doesn't need to resurface periodically); (3) Polaris submarines (basically floating weapons silos). In future, much of the Royal Navy's power will be deployed underwater.

Duration
14 mins

Format
P 1/16/A

Colour
Colour

Sound
comopt

NumberOfParts
1

Dimensions
502 ft

ProductionSponsor
Central Office of Information
Ministry of Defence (Navy)

ProductionCompany
[Capfield Productions ?]

ProductionTeam
Basilico, Rene: director
Capey, David: film editor
Basilico, Rene: script
Brian Stevens Studio: animation

ProductionCountry
GB

Language
English

LanguageMainTitles
English

LanguageSubtitles
None

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
20/02/2009 05:50:26

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
IWM

DeptName
Film

IDNO
IWM 581

ProductionDate
1918

ItemName
the SUBMARINE SERVICE [Main]

IndexEvents
12/3(261.2).7

IndexObjects
ships, British naval - destroyer: Swift & [-]
ships, British naval - destroyer: Firedrake (97) & [-]
ships, British naval - submarine: E23
ships, British naval - minesweeper: Melton (898) & [paddle]
ships, British naval - minesweeper: Sandown (903) & [paddle]
ships, British auxiliary - minesweeper: Ravenswood (588) & [paddle]
ships, British auxiliary - minesweeper: Albyn (587) & [paddle]
ships, British auxiliary - minesweeper: Drusilla (GY.951)
ships, British auxiliary - minesweeper: Pitfour (PD.241)
ships, British auxiliary - minesweeper: Strathdevon (A539)
operations, British naval - mines: clearance
operations, British naval - preparation: ammunitioning
operations, British naval - return
communications, British naval - direct: semaphore
delegations, British national - state
training, British naval - weapons: submarine's surface gun

IndexPeople
George V, King
Beatty, David
George VI, King
Cromer (Earl)

IndexUnits
GB.N & Queen Elizabeth
GB.N & Melton
GB.N & Sandown
GB.N & Ravenswood
GB.N & Albyn
GB.N & Firedrake
GB.N & E23
GB.N & Swift
GB.N & Drusilla
GB.N & Pitfour
GB.N & Strathdevon

ShortSummary
Submarine «E.23» at Harwich and at sea, 1918.

FullSummary
I. Excerpt from H.M. VISIT TO THE GRAND FLEET, (IWM 556/01), showing King George V, Admiral Beatty, Lieutenant HRH Prince Albert, and Lord Cromer onboard «HMS Queen Elizabeth». II. Excerpt from THE STORY OF THE DRIFTERS, (IWM 553/01). Drifters embark mines and prepare to leave harbour. Minesweepers at sea - «HMS Melton» (898), «HMS Sandown» (903), «HMS Ravenswood» (588), «HMS Albyn» (587). View from crow's nest on «HMS Swift», and medium close-up of crewman semaphoring. III. Title sequence. Medium close-up as torpedo is taken onboard submarine «E.23» at Harwich - Special I Class destroyer «HMS Firedrake» (97), in the background. Submarine casts off. Medium shot of vessel underway and submerging to periscope depth. «E.23» surfaces, and crew emerge to uncover and fire 12-pounder. High-angle medium shot as she returns to base to be secured alongside.

ContextDescription
Summary: the film's claim that «E.23» sank a "German Dreadnought of the Nassau class" is an exaggeration. «SMS Westfalen», hit by a torpedo fired from «E.23» on 19 August 1916, had completed repairs by October of the same year

Duration
16 mins

Format
P 1/35/A

Colour
B&W

Sound
Silent

NumberOfParts
1

Dimensions
954 ft

ProductionSponsor
Admiralty

ProductionCompany
Engholm, F W

ProductionTeam
Engholm, F W: cameraman

ProductionCountry
GB

Language
None

LanguageMainTitles
English

LanguageSubtitles
English

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:20:43

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
IWM

DeptName
Film

IDNO
ADM 1534

ProductionDate
1955 (ca)

ItemName
[ACTIVITIES ON BOARD SUBMARINES - HMS TRENCHANT] [Allocated]
[POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS] [series, allocated]

IndexObjects
ships, British naval - harbour: Forth
ships, British naval - submarine: Sanguine
ships, British naval - submarine: Seneschal
ships, British naval - submarine: Trenchant
ships, British naval - submarine: Truncheon
ships, British naval - submarine: Tudor
operations, British naval - routine

IndexPlaces
Italy & La Spezia, Liguria
Italy & Pantelleria

IndexUnits
GB.N & Forth
GB.N & Sanguine
GB.N & Seneschal
GB.N & Trenchant
GB.N & Truncheon
GB.N & Tudor

ShortSummary
Scenes around and on board the submarine «HMS Trenchant».

FullSummary
General view of submarine aft; «HMS Tudor» passes on starboard quarter and beam (Pantelleria in background). «Tudor» crosses «Trenchant's» bows. «HMS Forth» and submarines; going alongside «Forth» and tying up. Torpedo lowering and loading sequences. Control room: submarine steering position, ratings operating trimming of fore and after planes, periscope operations, navigator plotting charts. Shots of engine room and motor room, ratings working main motors. Submarines leave «HMS Forth» at La Spezia, Italy: «Sanguine», «Trenchant», «Truncheon», «Tudor», «Seneschal».

ContextDescription
Summary: cataloguing incomplete as the film has not been viewed - information is taken from CNI records.
Technical: CNI note says "Badly graded print, negative satisfactory".

ProductionSponsor
[Admiralty]

ProductionCountry
GB

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
02/02/2009 05:50:22

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
IWM

DeptName
Film

IDNO
ADM 1838

ProductionDate
21/10/1960

ItemName
[LAUNCH OF HMS DREADNOUGHT] [Allocated]
[POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS] [series, allocated]

IndexObjects
ships, British naval - submarine: Dreadnought & [nuclear]
industry, British - ships

IndexPeople
Elizabeth II, Queen
Philip, Prince (Duke of Edinburgh)
Mountbatten, Louis (Earl)
Carrington, Peter (6th Baron)
Dunphie, Charles A P
Barrow-in-Furness, Mayor of
Rickover, Hyman G
Samborne, B F P

IndexPlaces
GB, England & Barrow-in-Furness, Lancs

IndexUnits
GB.N & Dreadnought
GB.O & Vickers-Armstrongs

ShortSummary
The launch of Britain's first nuclear submarine.

FullSummary
Opening sequence shows «Dreadnought» on the slip - the stands are being set up for the launch ceremony. «Dreadnought's» future captain, Commander Samborne, is filmed with his officers. More LA views of the submarine. The crowds assemble (there were some 12,000 spectators in the dockyard). Loyal children wave Union Jacks. Dignitaries begin to arrive - including the mayor of Barrow. The Queen arrives with Prince Philip and the First Sea Lord, and after the usual formalities, mounts the launch platform. Among the VIPs on the platform is Vice-Admiral Rickover USN, head of the Nuclear Propulsion Division, Bureau of Ships, Washington. The Queen talks with Major-General Dunphie, the Chairman of Vickers-Armstrongs. After the usual blessing, the Queen names the ship. The launch is covered by two cameras next to the slip and one camera on a waiting tug. After the launch the camera-boat takes «Dreadnought» under tow.

ContextDescription
Technical: the Eastmancolour print has faded and is in parts badly scratched
Summary: Vice-Admiral Rickover's presence was more than a mere courtesy visit: «Dreadnought's» propulsion machinery had been supplied by Westinghouse Electric, and technical assistance in the installation of the system was provided by General Dynamics

Duration
16 mins

Format
P 1/35/A

Colour
Colour

Sound
Mute

NumberOfParts
1

Dimensions
1472 ft

ProductionSponsor
[Admiralty]

ProductionCountry
GB

Language
None

LanguageMainTitles
None

LanguageSubtitles
None

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
02/02/2009 05:50:22

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
IWM

DeptName
Printed Books

IDNO
68707

OtherNumber
K

ProductionDate
1966

ItemName
The sea and the Easter Rising

IndexPlaces
Ireland
Norway
Germany, pre 1945 and post 1990
Great Britain
UK

IndexUnits
[ Libau]
[ Aud]
[ U 19]
[ HMS Helga]

IndexConcepts
easter rising ireland 1916
irregular operations ireland first world war
guerilla war ireland first world war
individual ships, merchant navy
merchant navy, individual ships
individual merchant ships
individual submarine histories
submarines, idividual histories
histories of submarines
individual naval ships
histories of individual ships
ships' histories
guerilla and counter-surgency operations
resistance
unconventional warfare
merchant navy
naval unit histories
navies

IndexHistPeriod
First World War

ContextDescription
Pbk
Ex libris Anthony Comerford

NumberOfParts
52p.
ill., 2 maps, ports.

Dimensions
22

MakerName
by John de Courcy Ireland

MakerInfo
IRELAND, JOHN DE COURCY

ProductionCompany
Maritime Institute of Ireland

ProductionCountry
Dublin

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:47:44

URLEncodedDeptName
PrintedBooks

DeptName
Printed Books

IDNO
61499

ProductionDate
1969

ItemName
U-boat intelligence 1914-1918

IndexPlaces
Great Britain
UK
oceans, seas in general
USA

IndexConcepts
signals intelligence
cryptography
Enigma
codes
codebreaking
Ultra
anti submarine warfare first world war
underwater warfare
british submarine service
british naval intelligence and propaganda branches
naval intelligence corps
intelligence and espionage
naval operations
actions at sea
naval unit histories
navies

IndexHistPeriod
First World War

FullSummary
[Printed materials]

NumberOfParts
192p., 8p. of plates
ill.

Dimensions
22

MakerName
Robert M. Grant

MakerInfo
GRANT, ROBERT M.

ProductionCompany
Putnam

ProductionCountry
London

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:47:44

URLEncodedDeptName
PrintedBooks

DeptName
Printed Books

IDNO
92 / 523

ProductionDate
1990

ItemName
Slide rules and submarines
American scientists and sub surface warfare in World War II

IndexPlaces
Atlantic Ocean
North Atlantic
South Atlantic
Caribbean Sea
Gulf of Mexico
Irish Sea
USA
USA

IndexConcepts
submarine warfare atlantic ocean second world war
submarine warfare
submarine service
naval warfare, technological change and war
naval operations
actions at sea
naval unit histories
navies
naval strategy and tactics

IndexHistPeriod
Second World War

FullSummary
[Printed materials]
Pbk

ContextDescription
Pbk

NumberOfParts
xxiii, 269p.
ill., ports.

Dimensions
23

MakerName
Montgomery C. Meigs
with an introduction by Congressman Ike Skelton

MakerInfo
MEIGS, MONTGOMERY C.

ProductionCompany
National Defense University Press

ProductionCountry
Washington, D.C.

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:47:44

URLEncodedDeptName
PrintedBooks

FormatDescription
p.247-253
index

DeptName
Printed Books

IDNO
86 / 3123

ProductionDate
1986

ItemName
Who killed Surcouf?

IndexPlaces
Free French armed forces
Theatre of operations Western Front 1914-1918
Theatre of operations France and the Low Countries 1939-1940
France
St. Pierre (d.t.)
Miquelon (d.t.)

IndexConcepts
individual submarine histories
submarines, idividual histories
histories of submarines
dieppe 1942
political history
exile governments
governments in exile
political history, general
naval unit histories
navies
political history
military operations
campaigns, military
warfare (conventional)
battles
[ Surcouf]

IndexHistPeriod
Second World War

FullSummary
[Printed materials]
"The untold story of the occupation of the Islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon by the Free French Forces under General de Gaulle at the instigation of Winston Churchill, in defiance of the wishes of Canada and the U.S.A. This was followed by the mysterious loss of the giant French cruiser/submarine Surcouf..." - title page

ContextDescription
"The untold story of the occupation of the Islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon by the Free French Forces under General de Gaulle at the instigation of Winston Churchill, in defiance of the wishes of Canada and the U.S.A. This was followed by the mysterious loss of the giant French cruiser/submarine Surcouf..." - title page

NumberOfParts
103p.
ill., facsims., maps, ports.

Dimensions
22

MakerName
by George Young

MakerInfo
YOUNG, GEORGE

ProductionCompany
G. Young

ProductionCountry
'Queensland', Nova Scotia

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:47:44

URLEncodedDeptName
PrintedBooks

FormatDescription
p.102

ISBN
0-920454-06-2 (pbk.)

DeptName
Printed Books

IDNO
14412

ProductionDate
1932-[1964]

ItemName
Der Handelskrieg mit U-Booten

SubTitle
Der Krieg zur See, 1914-1918 / herausgegeben vom Marine-Archiv

IndexPlaces
oceans, seas in general
Germany, pre 1945 and post 1990

IndexConcepts
submarine warfare first world war
submarine warfare
submarine service
naval unit histories
navies
naval operations
actions at sea

IndexHistPeriod
First World War

FullSummary
[Printed materials]
Band 4 is facsimile reprint of volume originally published in 1941 for official use only.
Eighty-seven folding maps in pockets attached to rear covers of Bands 2-4
1 Band : Vorgeschichte 14412
2 Band : Februar bis September 1917 14890
3 Band : Oktober 1915 bis Januar 1917 15225
4 Band : Februar bis Dezember 1917 48737

ContextDescription
Band 4 is facsimile reprint of volume originally published in 1941 for official use only.
Eighty-seven folding maps in pockets attached to rear covers of Bands 2-4
1 Band : Vorgeschichte 14412
2 Band : Februar bis September 1917 14890
3 Band : Oktober 1915 bis Januar 1917 15225
4 Band : Februar bis Dezember 1917 48737

NumberOfParts
4 vols.
maps, plans

Dimensions
25

MakerName
bearbeitet von Arno Spindler

MakerInfo
SPINDLER, ARNO
DER KRIEG ZUR SEE, 1914-1918

ProductionCompany
E.S. Mittler

ProductionCountry
Berlin

Language
German

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:47:44

URLEncodedDeptName
PrintedBooks

FormatDescription
p.
index
Der Krieg zur See, 1914-1918 / herausgegeben vom Marine-Archiv

DeptName
Printed Books

IDNO
83 / 1718

ProductionDate
1982

ItemName
Australia under siege
Japanese submarine raiders, 1942

IndexPlaces
Pacific Ocean
Australia
Japan

IndexUnits
[ HMAS Kuttabul]

IndexConcepts
midget submarines attack sydney harbour 1942
midget submarines pacific ocean second world war
midget submarines
inividual australian naval ships
australian ships, individual histories
submarine service special forces
marine engineering, naval engineering, ships
submarines, submersibles
midget submarines, craft
naval operations
actions at sea
naval unit histories
navies
marine and naval engineering
ships

IndexHistPeriod
Second World War

FullSummary
[Printed materials]

ContextDescription
pages182-185

NumberOfParts
192p.
ill., figs., maps, ports.

Dimensions
22

MakerName
Steven L. Carruthers

MakerInfo
CARRUTHERS, STEVEN L.

ProductionCompany
Solus Books

ProductionCountry
Waverton, New South Wales

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:47:44

URLEncodedDeptName
PrintedBooks

FormatDescription
p.182-185
index

ISBN
0-9593614-05

DeptName
Printed Books

IDNO
83 / 1952

OtherNumber
K

ProductionDate
1982

ItemName
Chronology of U.S. Navy submarine operations in the Pacific, 1939-42

IndexPlaces
Pacific Ocean
USA

IndexConcepts
submarine warfare pacific ocean second world war
submarine warfare
submarine service
chronologies
naval operations
actions at sea
naval unit histories
navies
reference works, guides and chronologies
general guides
chronologies
official publications
theses

IndexHistPeriod
Second World War

NumberOfParts
34p.
ill., figs., maps

Dimensions
28

MakerName
by David L. Kimble

MakerInfo
KIMBLE, DAVID L.
WEAPONS AND WARFARE QUARTERLY, SPECIAL NUMBER 49

ProductionCompany
International Graphics

ProductionCountry
Bennington, Vermont

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:47:44

URLEncodedDeptName
PrintedBooks

FormatDescription
p.32
Weapons and warfare quarterly, special number IL

ISBN
0-86556-013-7 (pbk.)

DeptName
Printed Books

IDNO
34257

ProductionDate
1943

ItemName
S.O.S. Thetis!
trente-six heures entre la bourse et la mort

IndexPlaces
Great Britain
UK

IndexUnits
[ HMS Thetis]

IndexConcepts
individual submarine histories
submarines, idividual histories
histories of submarines
naval unit histories
navies

IndexHistPeriod
1919 to end of August 1939

FullSummary
[Printed materials]
Pbk

ContextDescription
Pbk

NumberOfParts
116p., 18p. of plates
ill., facsims., ports.

Dimensions
19

MakerName
Comte Georges Alexander
traduit de l'Allemand par Robert Ducharme

MakerInfo
ALEXANDER, GEORGES

ProductionCompany
Armes de France

ProductionCountry
Paris

Language
French

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:47:44

URLEncodedDeptName
PrintedBooks

DeptName
Printed Books

IDNO
85 / 2189

ProductionDate
1985

ItemName
The hunt for Red October
[a novel]

IndexPeople
[ Clancy, Tom]

IndexPlaces
USA
Russia

IndexConcepts
literature
fiction
novels
works about novelists
individual submarine histories
submarines, idividual histories
histories of submarines
prose
naval unit histories
navies
fiction
poetry
drama

IndexHistPeriod
1976 to the present day

FullSummary
[Printed materials]

NumberOfParts
479p.

Dimensions
23

MakerName
Tom Clancy

MakerInfo
CLANCY, TOM

ProductionCompany
Collins

ProductionCountry
London

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:47:44

URLEncodedDeptName
PrintedBooks

ISBN
0-00-222927-7

DeptName
Printed Books

IDNO
86 / 1853

ProductionDate
1986

ItemName
Beneath the waves
a history of HM submarine losses

IndexPlaces
Great Britain
UK

IndexConcepts
submarine service
casualties
naval unit histories
navies
statistics
casualties

IndexHistPeriod
General, 1900 to the present day

FullSummary
[Printed materials]

ContextDescription
pages425

NumberOfParts
439p., 32p. of plates
ill., ports.

Dimensions
24

MakerName
A.S. Evans

MakerInfo
EVANS, A.S.

ProductionCompany
Kimber

ProductionCountry
London

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:47:44

URLEncodedDeptName
PrintedBooks

FormatDescription
p.425
index

ISBN
0-7183-0601-5

DeptName
Exhibits

IDNO
MAR 564

ProductionDate
5

ItemName
Submersible: SSB 'Maiale'(Pig) Manned-Torpedo: Italian

IndexPlaces
Mediterranean

IndexUnits
Italian Navy

FullSummary
The Italian SSB (Siluro San Bartolomeo, San Bartolomeo Torpedo) was the final model of the SLC ( Siluro a lenta corsa, 'Slow-running Torpedo') manned torpedo which was developed in the late 1930s to attack naval and merchant shipping. Both versions were called Maiale (Pig) by their two-man crews, who were equipped with protective rubber suits and self-contained breathing apparatus. The Pigs were capable of full submergence and carried a detachable warhead of up to 660lbs.
The Maiale achieved some marked successes against British shipping between 1941 and the Italian Armistice, including the crippling of the battleships Queen Elizabeth and Valiant in Alexandria harbour in December 1941. Over 80 Maiale were produced.

ProductionCompany
San Bartolomeo Torpedo Workshops ( La Spezia, Italy)

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 11:14:35

URLEncodedDeptName
Exhibits

FormatDescription
Italian "Maiale" (Pig) SSB ( Siluro San Bartolomeo,"San
Bartolomeo Torpedo" ) Manned Torpedo

DeptName
Aircraft, Engines & Vehicles

IDNO
2010.110.1

OtherNumber
H105.50

ItemName
Focke Achgelis Fa-330

ObjectType
aircraft, rotary wing, autogiro

SubTitle
reconnaissance

IndexHistPeriod
Second World War

NumberOfParts
complete

MakerName
Focke Achgelis

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

URLEncodedDeptName
AircraftEnginesVehicles

Nationality
german

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
9985

OtherNumber
01/2/1

ItemName
Private Papers of J W Clay

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
A very well-written ts account (57pp), mainly compiled in 1944 but completed in 1949, covering his training at the RN Barracks, Devonport, with good descriptions of the hazards of life in Plymouth at the height of the Blitz (April - July 1941); his service as a gunnery rating in the sloop HMS BLACK SWAN which was principally employed, as the senior ship of the 37th Escort Group from November 1941 onwards, on escort duties with convoys between the United Kingdom and Gibraltar and West Africa, with interesting references to the loss of ships from the convoys and the rescue of survivors from the MV EMPIRE STAR and the corvette HMCS WEYBURN (August 1941 - June 1943); his posting to the RN Barracks, Devonport and qualification at HMS NIMROD, the ASDIC school at Campbeltown, as a submarine detector operator (July - September 1943); his passage across the Atlantic on the troopship AQUITANIA to join the newly completed Captain class frigate HMS LAWFORD in the United States (October - November 1943) and his service, as a submarine detector operator and ship's writer, in LAWFORD during her passage across the Atlantic to Liverpool, her fitting out as a combined operations headquarters ship, her preparations with Force J in the English Channel for participation in the D-Day landings and, in particular, her employment on patrol duties off the Normandy beachhead from D-Day until she was bombed and sunk on the morning of 8 June 1944, his rescue by the minesweeper HMS PIQUE and indifferent treatment by the authorities as a survivor; and his service in the shore establishment HMS OSPREY at Dunoon until his demobilisation in August 1945; together with a photograph of him in uniform, 7 mounted photographs relating to his service in BLACK SWAN and other postings, 5 mounted press cuttings including another rating's account of the loss of LAWFORD, and the badge worn by a submarine detector operator.

MakerName
Clay

Forenames
J W

RelatedImageFile
ClayJW_009985_6.jpg

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
12/09/2006 05:50:12

URLEncodedDeptName
Documents

Access
Unrestricted

IndexPlace
Normandy, France
Devonport, Devon, England, UK
Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
West Africa
Campbeltown, Argyllshire, Scotland, UK
USA
Atlantic Ocean
Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
English Channel
Dunoon, Argyllshire, Scotland, UK

IndexEvent
Blitz, United Kingdom, Second World War
Home Front, UK, Second World War
D-Day, Normandy Landing 1944, North West Europe, Second World War

PDF
ClayJW_009985_6.pdf

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Photographs

IDNO
FKD 2674

ProductionDate
2 May 1982

ProductionPeriod
1976 - 2000

ItemName
THE FALKLANDS CONFLICT, APRIL - JUNE 1982

ObjectType
Amateur photograph

SubTitle
BILTON MICHAEL COLLECTION

IndexPlaces
Falkland Islands

IndexUnits
Royal Navy, CONQUEROR (HMS/M)
Argentine Navy, GENERAL BELGRANO

IndexConcepts
Naval Warfare
Submarine Warfare
Destruction

IndexHistPeriod
1976 - 2000

ShortSummary
The Argentine cruiser GENERAL BELGRANO sinks after being torpedoed by the British submarine HMS CONQUEROR on 2 May 1982. The photograph was taken by a crew member from a life raft.

Colour
Black and white

CopyrightStatus
Private copyright

MakerName
Argentine photographer

RelatedImageFile
Image/FKD_002674.jpg

Weighting
900

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
23/10/2008 05:51:48

URLEncodedDeptName
Photographs

FormatDescription
Amateur photograph

Access
Unrestricted

Nationality
Argentine

IndexPlace
Falkland Islands

IndexEvent
Sinking of GENERAL BELGRANO, Falklands Conflict

Theme
Falklands Conflict 1982
Royal Navy 1945-2000
Submarines

CoLStatus
Ready

PhotoCollRef
8910-09

DigitalAsset
Y

IWMImageOwned
Y

DeptName
Photographs

IDNO
HU 57612

ProductionDate
1916

ProductionPeriod
First World War

ItemName
THE NAVAL CAREER OF COMMANDER F H GOODHART DSO RN.

ObjectType
photograph

SubTitle
GOODHART F H H (COMMANDER)

IndexConcepts
Submarine Warfare

IndexHistPeriod
First World War

ShortSummary
The British submarine E 8 returning from patrol in the summer of 1916.

Colour
Black and white

CopyrightStatus
Private copyright

RelatedImageFile
Image/HU_057612.jpg

Weighting
900

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
08/08/2007 05:50:57

URLEncodedDeptName
Photographs

Access
Unrestricted

Theme
Royal Navy 1914-1918
Submarines

CoLStatus
Published

PhotoCollRef
9002-20

DigitalAsset
Y

IWMImageOwned
Y

DeptName
Photographs

IDNO
FKD 31

ProductionDate
3 July 1982

ProductionPeriod
1976 - 2000

ItemName
THE FALKLANDS CONFLICT, APRIL - JUNE 1982

ObjectType
Official photograph

SubTitle
HMS NEPTUNE, FASLANE COLLECTION

IndexPlaces
Faslane Bay, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK

IndexUnits
Royal Navy, CONQUEROR (HMS/M)

IndexConcepts
Celebration
Naval Warfare
Submarine Warfare

IndexHistPeriod
1976 - 2000

ShortSummary
The Churchill class submarine HMS CONQUEROR, assisted by the PAS tug DEERHOUND, moves towards the jetty on returning to her base at Faslane, Scotland from the South Atlantic, on 3 July 1982. During the Falklands Conflict, she became the first nuclear submarine to sink another warship in combat when she torpedoed the Argentine cruiser GENERAL BELGRANO (ex USS PHOENIX) on 2 May 1982.

ContextDescription
HMS CONQUEROR returned to Faslane flying the traditional `Jolly Roger' flag indicating the results achieved while on patrol. The central motif of the flag is a skull on crossed torpedoes. In the top fly corner is the silhouette of a warship marking the sinking of the GENERAL BELGRANO, in the top hoist corner is a dagger marking the completion of one clandestine operation and under the skull is an atomic power symbol indicating that HMS CONQUEROR is a nuclear powered submarine.

Colour
Black and white

CopyrightStatus
Crown copyright

MakerName
Royal Navy official photographer

RelatedImageFile
Image/FKD_000031.jpg

Weighting
900

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
23/10/2008 05:51:48

URLEncodedDeptName
Photographs

FormatDescription
Official photograph

Access
Unrestricted

Nationality
British

IndexPlace
Faslane Bay, Dunfermlineshire, Scotland, UK

IndexEvent
Falklands Conflict

Theme
Falklands Conflict 1982
Royal Navy 1945-2000
Submarines

CoLStatus
Ready

PhotoCollRef
8209-29

DigitalAsset
Y

IWMImageOwned
Y

DeptName
Photographs

IDNO
HU 67304

ProductionDate
1916-1918

ProductionPeriod
First World War

ItemName
SERVICE OF LIEUTENANT A G CRUMMACH RNR IN HM SUBMARINE H-10, 1916-1918

ObjectType
photograph

SubTitle
CRUMMACH A G (LT) COLLECTION

IndexUnits
Royal Navy
United States Navy

IndexConcepts
Naval Warfare
Submarine Warfare

IndexHistPeriod
First World War

ShortSummary
The conning tower of HM Submarine H-10. The officer on the left is an American naval officer, one of several who served with British submarines to obtain war experience. The officer is possibly Ensign Eugene F Childs USN who was later killed when HM Submarine H-5 was rammed and sunk in error by the steamer RUTHERGLEN in June 1918. Childs was the first member of the US Navy to be killed during the First World War.

Colour
Black and white

CopyrightStatus
Private copyright

RelatedImageFile
Image/HU_067304.jpg

Weighting
900

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
08/08/2007 05:50:57

URLEncodedDeptName
Photographs

Access
Restricted

Theme
Royal Navy 1914-1918
Submarines

CoLStatus
Published

PhotoCollRef
9506-24

DigitalAsset
Y

IWMImageOwned
Y

DeptName
Photographs

IDNO
CT 1870

ProductionDate
14 July 1977

ProductionPeriod
1976 - 2000

ItemName
TESTING OF THE BRITISH CHEVALINE SYSTEM WITH THE ROYAL NAVY POLARIS MISSILE, CAPE CANAVERAL, UNITED STATES, 1976 - 1980

ObjectType
Amateur photograph

SubTitle
LING RICHARD

IndexObjects
Weapon Naval Missile: Polaris Chevaline (nuclear)

IndexPlaces
Cape Kennedy, Florida, USA

IndexUnits
Royal Navy

IndexConcepts
Nuclear Warfare
Research & Development
Training
Rockets and Missiles

IndexHistPeriod
1976 - 2000

ShortSummary
A Royal Navy Polaris missile, with Chevaline payload, heads for First Stage separation and an eventual target down range, during a DASO [Data Analysis & Shake Out] launch from a submerged British Royal Navy submarine, HMS RESOLUTION, off Cape Canaveral. Photograph taken from USS MANITOWIC (distant view).

ContextDescription
Chevaline was a British invention designed to confuse Soviet Anti-missile defence systems. The test programme comprised twelve launches. Ten, involving a Chevaline payload mounted on a Polaris ICBM, took place from Cape Canaveral. Two launches also took place at sea from RN Submarines.

Colour
Colour

CopyrightStatus
Private copyright

MakerName
Ling Richard

RelatedImageFile
Image/CT_001870.jpg

Weighting
900

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
23/10/2008 05:51:48

URLEncodedDeptName
Photographs

Access
Unrestricted

Nationality
British

IndexPlace
Cape Kennedy, Florida, USA

IndexEvent
Cold War

Theme
Royal Navy 1945-2000
Cold War 1945-1991
United Nations post-1945
Nuclear Weapons, Protest and Testing post-1945

CoLStatus
Ready

PhotoCollRef
2000-09-07

DigitalAsset
Y

IWMImageOwned
Y

DeptName
Photographs

IDNO
MH 29722

ProductionDate
February 1977

ProductionPeriod
1976 - 2000

ItemName
THE ROYAL NAVY IN 1977

ObjectType
Official photograph
Portrait photograph (submarine)

SubTitle
JANE'S FIGHTING SHIPS

IndexObjects
Submarine

IndexPlaces
Gareloch, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK

IndexUnits
Royal Navy, RESOLUTION (HMS)

IndexConcepts
Submarine Warfare
Rockets and Missiles

IndexHistPeriod
1976 - 2000

ShortSummary
The ballistic missile submarine HMS RESOLUTION leaving Gareloch.

Colour
Black and white

CopyrightStatus
Crown copyright

MakerName
Royal Navy official photographer

RelatedImageFile
Image/MH_029722.jpg

Weighting
900

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
23/10/2008 05:51:48

URLEncodedDeptName
Photographs

FormatDescription
Official photograph

Access
Unrestricted

Nationality
British

IndexPlace
Gareloch, Dunfermlineshire, Scotland, UK

Theme
Royal Navy 1945-2000
Submarines
Cold War 1945-1991

CoLStatus
Ready

PhotoCollRef
7909-33

DigitalAsset
Y

IWMImageOwned
Y

DeptName
Art

IDNO
IWM ART 16200

ProductionDate
1987

ProductionPeriod
1976 - 2000

ItemName
Nuclear Submarine Piece 1987

ObjectType
installation

IndexConcepts
shipping
nuclear war
artist's response
cold war
radar
science / technology

IndexHistPeriod
1976 - 2000

FullSummary
In 1987 Graham Ashton was commissioned by the Artistic Records Committee of the Imperial War Museum to make a work on the subject of nuclear submarines. He spent three days at sea aboard the submarine HMS ‘Valiant’ observing the submariners at work and the technical environment of the submarine. He was particularly struck by the variety of technologies he found and these are reflected in the sculpture. He aims to address the concept of nuclear deterrence which he defines as including notions of balance, power, concealment, fragility and ‘a curious quality of invisible omnipresence’.
His statement about the making of the work describes the elements he used: ‘ Both the materials and the shape of the finished sculpture are meant to express the functional beauty of the apparatus on board. I chose copper for its sheen and its association with electrical and machine power; I chose glass for its transparency and fragility…. The fixed beams on which the glass torpedoes rest can rotate around the base in the way radar circles round the boat. The hand-blown glass shapes….allude most obviously to torpedoes, but they refer as well to the whale-like hull of the submarine. They are also a sensuous evocation of liquid. .. the cold icy quality [of the twelve glass segments] suggests ocean depth and cross-refers to the torpedo glass. The entire sculpture has been engineered with mechanical precision.’
Graham Ashton’s work has been consistently concerned with the threat of global nuclear annihilation. This sculpture has an unnerving fragility which the precision engineering cannot completely dispel.

ContextDescription
A sculpture incorporating several different elements. A steel and copper barrel contains twelve thick clear glass wedges, separated by copper plates. Set onto this hub are three metal beams which can be rotated about the centre. The beams each support a hand-blown torpedo-shaped bottle of magenta coloured glass. When displayed, three large abstract watercolour paintings in which magenta, green and yellow flow into one another are hung behind the sculpture. As originally displayed these are hung into a corner of the gallery, two on one wall, one on the other.

Format
Copper
steel
blown glass
watercolour

Dimensions
1515 mm
915 mm
1515 mm
950 mm
1515 mm
905 mm

CopyrightStatus
IWM

MakerName
Ashton, Graham

ProductionCountry
Great Britain

AcquisitionMethod
commission

AcquisitionNote
Artistic Records Committee commission

AcquisitionDate
1987

RelatedImageFile
Web1art/4322-86.jpg

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
13/06/2007 05:50:45

URLEncodedDeptName
Art

FormatDescription
installation

AuthorityLink
Ashton, Graham

DigitalAsset
N

IWMImageOwned
Y

DeptName
Art

IDNO
IWM PST 0515

ProductionDate
1917

ProductionPeriod
First World War

ItemName
U Boote Heraus! [The U-boats Are Out!]

ObjectType
poster

IndexConcepts
advertisement
film
shipping
military manoeuvres
military personnel

IndexHistPeriod
First World War

FullSummary
This German film poster publicises a version of the first U-boat propaganda film released by Bufa (Königliche Bild- und Film-Amt) early in 1917. Widespread stories of the exploits of the auxiliary cruiser/commerce raider ‘Möwe’ had alerted the German public to the abilities of this new marine technology.
Erdt’s poster design offers the U-boat commander as a new kind of hero who is in control of his vessel and of the battle, manipulating events from a hidden underwater perspective. In fact, the majority of confrontations occurred when the submarine was on the surface. Submarine technology was not advanced and the vessels could not stay underwater for long periods.
This and the shorter version of the film (‘Ein Besuch bei unseren Blaujacken’) paved the way for the extraordinary film ‘Der magische Gürtel’, promoting the effectiveness of submarine warfare to both the German public and to audiences in friendly and neutral countries.
Hans Rudi Erdt designed a number of film posters for Bufa which exhibit a confident graphic expertise. In common with German poster designers of the period he combines hand-drawn lettering and bold areas of flat colour, integrating image and text into one message. This particular poster, where the ‘U’ is both part of the text and fundamental to the design, is an elegant example of his work.

ContextDescription
image: Within the shape of a large black letter ‘U’ emerge the head and shoulders of a U-boat commander, identified by his cap and jacket, who peers into the sights of a periscope toward the right of the poster. Beneath and beyond the ‘U’ shape are grey waves. On the horizon is the dark outline of a ship, broken in two and sinking, a cloud of white smoke rising from the wreck. Behind it can be traced the pale outline of another vessel.
text: U BOOTE HERAUS! [The U-boats are out!] H R ERDT. Hollerbaum & Schmidt, Berlin.

Format
lithograph

Support
paper

Dimensions
1410 mm
946 mm

CopyrightStatus
IWM reproduction right

MakerName
Erdt, Hans Rudi

ProductionSponsor
Königliche Bild-und Film-Amt (Bufa)

ProductionTeam
Hollerbaum & Schmidt, Berlin

ProductionCountry
Germany

Language
German

AcquisitionMethod
tbe

RelatedImageFile
web1pst/Cd3020-51.jpg

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
13/06/2007 05:50:45

URLEncodedDeptName
Art

FormatDescription
poster

AuthorityLink
Erdt, Hans Rudi

DigitalAsset
N

IWMImageOwned
N

DeptName
Art

IDNO
IWM PST 7268

ProductionDate
1917

ProductionPeriod
1914-1918

ItemName
Der Magische Gürtel [The Enchanted Circle]

ObjectType
poster

IndexConcepts
advertisement
shipping
military manoeuvres
film
military vehicles
flag / banner / standard
cartography
propaganda

IndexHistPeriod
1914-1918

FullSummary
This poster advertises a German official film depicting the submarine U35, shot in April 1917. Ironically, the title is taken from a speech by Winston Churchill, then British Minister for Munitions, who talked of liberating ‘our splendid Navy from the enchanted circle the submarine has drawn around it’. The poster illustrates this ‘magic girdle’ of U-boats operating an unrestricted campaign against all shipping in designated war zones from February 1917.
U35, under the command of Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, operated in the Mediterranean and in the Atlantic against British and Allied shipping. The film, issued by Bufa (Königliche Bild- und Film-Amt), showed footage shot from the deck of U35, with arresting images of the destruction and sinking of armed and unarmed merchant ships. Shown in neutral countries to demonstrate the success of Germany’s U-boats, the film received a mixed reception, eliciting sympathy for the victims rather than, as intended, admiration for the victors.
After the war versions of the film were issued in various Allied countries as retrospective counter-propaganda, using the emotive quality of the footage to re-inforce anti-German feeling. IWM’s Film and Video Archive restored a version of this important propaganda film, re-issued on video in 2000.

ContextDescription
whole: the image occupies the whole, with the title integrated and positioned in the upper third, in black. The text is integrated and positioned in the lower quarter, in white, and in the upper third, in black. All held within a black border.
image: in the foreground, the silhouette of a U-boat conning tower emerging from a grey-green sea. Further U-boats encircle a stylised depiction of the British Isles, which is depicted in the colours of the Union Flag. The depiction also includes white cliffs, the word 'ENGLAND' and a black dot marking London.
text: DER MAGISCHE GÜRTEL.
ENGLAND
H R ERDT
DEUTSCHE U-BOOTE WIDER ENGLAND
Ver. Kunstinstitute A. G. [missing text - V]orm. Otto Tr[missing text - oitz]sch, Abt. Emil Saatz, Berlin-Schöneberg.
[The enchanted circle. England. German U boats against England. United Art Institutes stock corporation, formerly Otto Troitzsch, Emil Saatz division, Berlin-Schöneberg.]

Format
lithograph

Support
paper

Dimensions
1395 mm
909 mm

CopyrightStatus
IWM reproduction right

MakerName
Erdt, Hans Rudi

ProductionSponsor
Königliche Bild- und Filmamt (Bufa)

ProductionTeam
Vereinigte Kunst-Institute AG, Berlin-Schönberg

ProductionCountry
Germany

Language
German

AcquisitionMethod
tbe

RelatedImageFile
Batch0139/7268.jpg

SubThemeTag
BelowTheWaves

UncatTransferDate
13/06/2007 05:50:45

URLEncodedDeptName
Art

FormatDescription
poster

AuthorityLink
Erdt, Hans Rudi

DigitalAsset
Y

IWMImageOwned
Y