The Maritime Archaeology of a Modern Conflict: Comparing the Archaeology of German Submarine Wrecks to the Historical Text

ISBN-13: 9780367871031 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 328 str.

Innes McCartney

Opis

Over the last 30 years, hydrographical marine surveys in the English Channel helped uncover the potential wreck sites of German submarines, or U-boats, sunk during the conflicts of World War I and World War II. Through a series of systemic dives, nautical archaeologist and historian Innes McCartney surveyed and recorded these wrecks, discovering

Spis treści

@contents...Part I: Introduction  1. Introduction, Aims and Objectives  Part II: World War One  2. Introduction: The Wrecks of the First U-Boat War and Contemporary Historical Texts  3. The Dover Patrol and its U-boat Wrecks  4. The English Channel and its U-Boat Wrecks  5. Conclusions, Bringing WW1 U-Boat Losses into Focus  Part III: World War Two  6. Introduction: The Wrecks of the Second U-Boat War and Contemporary Historical Texts  7. Known WW2 U-boat Wrecks Which Match the Historical Text  8. Mystery U-boat Wrecks Case 1 U269 and U1191  9. Mystery U-boat Wrecks Case 2 U984, U988 and U441  10. Mystery U-Boat Wrecks Case 3 U480 and U1208  11. Mystery U-Boat Wrecks Case 4 U1021, U400 and U683  12. Mystery U-Boat Wrecks Case 5 U1279, U325, and U650  13. Mystery U-Boat Wrecks Case 6 U322 and U772  14. Conclusions, Bringing WW2 U-Boat Losses into Focus  Part IV: The Overall Results  15. Overall Results, Comparisons between the Two World Wars and Concluding Remarks

O autorze

Innes McCartney is a nautical archaeologist, historian, author and broadcaster. He obtained his PhD from Bournemouth University and is known for his work in using archaeological research to identify 40 new German submarine wrecks in the waters around the UK and Ireland. He has published in such places as the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, and SKYLLIS, The Journal of the German Society for the Promotion of Underwater Archeology.