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...dare send out battleships to tow ''Audacious'' in because of the apparent submarine threat. Meanwhile the White Star liner ''Olympic'' arrived on the scene.<r ...ce four destroyers came in sight - the sun had appeared and coming towards us at full speed they really made a wonderful picture.' One of the destroyers

...urvivors of Norwegian barque ''Nordhav'' which had been sunk by the German Submarine ''{{DE-U117}}''. The survivors were landed in Boston. ...e next twenty years. One of many accomplishments was the raising of sunken submarine ''Squalus'' off the New Hampshire coast. On 6 November, 1941 she was rename

...y and Navy observers to witness the experimental bombings of the ex-German submarine {{DE-U117}}. Proceeding thence back to New York, the battleship there broke ...Battleship Division 7 when Vice Admiral McDonald transferred his flag to {{US-Wyoming}} and Rear Admiral Josiah S. McKean broke his flag on board as comm

...odernization. The veteran battleship received better armor, "blister" anti=submarine protection, better machinery, and tripod masts during this extensive overha {{CatShipDreadnought|US}}

...d War II, when she discovered and fired upon and sank a Japanese miniature submarine as it attempted to infiltrate Pearl Harbor on 7 December, 1941. <div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of U.S.S. ''Ward''" nat="US">

...and had many irons in the fire in and outside the Admiralty and barked at us if papers came to him which were merely routine but papers would not go thr ...In 1913 he produced the first draft of a paper, ‘The oil engine and the submarine’, predicting that submarines would make the traditional command of the se

...ing funds for such an unknown quantity. He minuted on 26 October that the submarine had "a very limited sphere of usefulness", and suggested that they be used ...e too heavily as it must first be in the dark, nor until experience points us in the direction in which we should work.<ref name=20Jan01>Kerr Memorandum.

...mous vessels of the [[Spanish-American War]], the {{US-Olympia}} and the {{US-Oregon}}. An 1892 description of the yards stated that between 1200 and 150 ...ther or not that was true, he certainly benefited from the collapse of the US Shipbuilding combine.

|{{US-Iroquois|f=p}}||sloop||12 Apr, 1859||Wrecked 26 Aug, 1910 |{{US-Lackawanna|f=p}}||screw sloop||9 Aug, 1862||Sold 30 Jul, 1887

...k by collision heads but the cost proved prohibitive.<ref>Dash. ''British Submarine Policy''. p. 185.</ref> ...and Lord Morley noted, "Sir A. Wilsonstrikes me, and I think the others of us, as much the best-balanced sort of man, to say nothing of his having proved

...'' was in Pensacola, Florida, accommodating crews of three [[Haddock Class Submarine (1913)|"K" class submarines]].{{USNavalEstimatesVolII1916|pp. 1553-4}} {{CatShipMonitor|US}}

.... However, we were doing our best with the tools the Government had given us to work with …" After "many vexatious delays," Evans writes, the American ...river to the Narrows, near Rosebank, Staten Island, N. Y., for work on the submarine net in company with three tugs, Hudson, W. J. Conway, and Lizzie D., and Na

...for six [[Plunger Class Submarine (1901)|A class]] and three [[Viper Class Submarine (1906)|B class submarines]].{{USNavalEstimatesVolII1916|p. 1553}} ...erff|appt=5 October, 1908{{USOfficerReg1909|p. 14}}|note=also commanding {{US-Monterey}}}}

...h Battle Squadron (Royal Navy)|5th Battle Squadron]] had come down to join us in the Forth in their place. It was the first time the 5th B.S. had come o ...8,500. Our first salvo missed for deflection, second salvo was over. The submarine screen of destroyers on our engaged bow were causing great interference wit

...but the 1913 ''Flotilla Signal Manual'', p. 29 indicates this hoist means "Submarine in sight".</ref> and engines stopped. At 6.35 altered course by 9 Pdt. to ...ns to fire on the German torpedo craft when they were seen turning towards us; the Officer of the turret claims a hit on one of them, as his shell burst

...y be nullified now by the subsequent advent of the destroyer. However, let us first review the Chino-Japanese operations at Wei-hai-Wei. ...to bear in mind the sort of attack, or what is likely to be the attack on us, may not be on similar lines to that which the Chinese met. I do not think

...rofessor of Mathematics at Cambridge, where he had also been a coach, told us that we were being taught in three months by Professor [[Carlton John Lambe On 18 December, 1916, Dreyer was appointed Assistant Director of the new Anti-Submarine Division of the [[Admiralty War Staff]].<ref>{{TNA|ADM 196/44.|}} Register

...be summed up in a few words by saying that he speeded things up and saved us some 5 or 6 years. ...kill the very difficult task of writing the Life of Lord Fisher and giving us a picture of this extraordinary man and the demoniacal energy, inspired by

I think it is a lesson to us in future that we ought to her guns and fired a torpedo from her submarine

...n a fleet action, especially since they possess an actual superiority over us in these particular weapons. ...force the enemy's cruisers to action at a speed which would interfere with submarine tactics.