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Object description
Photocopied ts article (15pp) written in May 1939 when he was serving as a Lieutenant in the submarine HMS CLYDE, entitled 'The Offensive Value of the Modern Submarine' and submitted to the RUSI Journal but never published, reviewing the technical development of submarines and anti-submarine devices, tactical developments, strategical employment and concluding with the views that obsolete submarines should be replaced, that two classes of submarines should be built, small and large, depending on the radius of operations and that coastal submarines have been rendered superfluous by shore-based naval aircraft; with an appendix giving a comparative table of the total strength of the British submarine fleet (all types) in May 1939 and proposed expansion; together with a ts covering note (1p) by Vice Admiral Sir Ian McGeoch, who later became Director of Undersurface Warfare (1956 - 1957) and Flag Officer Submarines (1966 - 1967), written in October 2006 concerning the Admiralty's refusal in 1939 to sanction the publication of his paper and the consequences of that decision.
Content description
Photocopied ts article (15pp) written in May 1939 when he was serving as a Lieutenant in the submarine HMS CLYDE, entitled 'The Offensive Value of the Modern Submarine' and submitted to the RUSI Journal but never published, reviewing the technical development of submarines and anti-submarine devices, tactical developments, strategical employment and concluding with the views that obsolete submarines should be replaced, that two classes of submarines should be built, small and large, depending on the radius of operations and that coastal submarines have been rendered superfluous by shore-based naval aircraft; with an appendix giving a comparative table of the total strength of the British submarine fleet (all types) in May 1939 and proposed expansion; together with a ts covering note (1p) by Vice Admiral Sir Ian McGeoch, who later became Director of Undersurface Warfare (1956 - 1957) and Flag Officer Submarines (1966 - 1967), written in October 2006 concerning the Admiralty's refusal in 1939 to sanction the publication of his paper and the consequences of that decision.
History note
Cataloguer PHR
History note
Catalogue date 1977-08-26