Naval Blunders

Carlton Books Ltd, 2004-08-01. Paperback. Very Good. A. Deutsch [Published date: 2001]. Soft cover, 186 pp. Reprint. In very good condition. Glossy illustrated soft covers have light bumping and creasing to edges and corners and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations. [From back cover] The history of nautical warfare is littered with disasters, from the lunacy of captains to the bungling Admiralty, and from the misjudgements and oversights of fleet commanders and strategic planners to the incompetence of ship designers. Stories include: The Admiral Popov, the circular Russian battleship that span in out-of-control circles, leaving her crew seasick and hanging on for their lives; Commodore Anson who set out to circumnavigate the world with a crew of pensioners recruited from Chelsea Hospital; The British cruiser Trinidad that malfunctioned in the Arctic and managed to torpedo itself. The "revolutionary" new class of submarine, the K boats, that caused more damage to themselves and other British ships than they did to the enemy. Packed with intriguing and often bizarre stories, this absorbing survey of naval incompetence from Roman times to the Falklands War, proves that there is truth in the old adage, "Worse things happen at sea.