What submarine books are you reading?

I'm about 1/3 through Clear the Bridge! : The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang, and it's been pretty good so far.

Thanks for the invite, just got today Final Run by David E. Meadows, I have not read any of his stuff before.

I also got yesterday Submariner by Alexander Fullerton.

David

That sounds good. Let us know what you think.

Thanks for the invitation.

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>3 worcester:

Welcome aboard! (yeah, I know, cheesy)



A couple of interesting things about Clear the Bridge!: while performing a search, if he didn't have any particular place to be, O'Kane would , counter to traditional submarine doctrine, just let his boat drift. He would also fire each torpedo on an individual bearing, instead of the normal spread, apparently something passed down from his mentor, "Mush" Morton. The best part of the book so far has been the lifeguard mission during a Task Force 58 raid on Truk, when Tang, racing around on the surface, rescued 22 navy airmen.

Here!

I'm not currently reading a submarine book. I'm a former U. S. Navy Nuke, and have acquired a few boat books along the way.

Thanks for the invite, I'll be lurking around.

Thanks for the invitation.
To date I have visited 3 submarines:
- the USS Pampanito in San Francisco, CA.
- a post ww2 submarine in Melbourne (Australia)
- the russian submarine Scorpion in Long Beach, CA.
I'm living in Belgium and I don't have visited any submarine in Europe !

PS I'm French speaking and I hope you will forgive my grammatical and orthographical errors.

Am not reading any submarines books now but just got U.S.S. Albacore : forerunner of the future.

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Thanks for joining!

If any of you guys know anyone who might like the group, feel free to invite them.

One of the best books I've read about submarines is:

"WERNER Herbert A., Iron Coffins" (translated in French under the title "Dix-huit secondes pour survivre")

The author is a former U-boat commander (who was born in 1920 and has emigrated to the USA after WW2)

I don't have yet this book.

Hi Bob81
Did you already invite the following Finnish "Librarythinger": Harry.Jaaskelainen ?
He owns 607 books about submarines

>10 Nedrin:

Yes, Harry.Jaaskelainen is on board.

>9 Nedrin:

Iron Coffins sounds good: I'd guess there probably aren't many books written by former U-Boat commanders.

Just finished Clear the Bridge!, and would deffinantly recommend it.

Most recently read: O'Kane's "Wahoo"

Most recently acquired: "War Fish" and "Blind Man's Bluff"

Thanks for the invite.

I have been collecting submarine books for about 20 years. I try to stick to only hardcover, but sometimes that is not possible.

Last sub book read was "Full Fathom Five" by Mary Lee Coe Fowler.

Just finished "Secret Mission Submarine" by LT. N.L.A. Jewell and Cecil Carnes. Published in 1944 and has a notice that it was designed in "Victory format". It is about the HMS Seraph. It tells of the landing of Gen. Mark Clark in North Africa to negotiate with the Free French prior to the Allied invasion. Then the rescue of Gen Girrard from S. France. And other missions in and around Greece. It did not, however, talk about the Man Who Never Was Mission - which it took part in. Interesting.

Just received Never Forgotten: the search and discovery of Israel's lost submarine Dakar.

Thanks for invite. Appreciated.
I'm on the obscure factionalised novel Sharks and Little Fish

In the group, Wicca they have a list called 1001 Books for Pagans and I was thinking maybe we could do something similar here for the group as well since there's a list of books already begun that people are adding to from time to time. And I was also thinking that we might also want to start a list of the Best Submarine Movies out there as well. What does everyone think about it?

Beatles1964

Those sound like good ideas.

I haven't seen anyone mention The Hunt For Red October, yet by Tom Clancy or Run Silent, Run Deep by Edward L. Beach; Submarine! also by Edward L. Beach. The Midget Raiders A Wartime Story of Human Torpedoes and Midget Submarines by C.E.T. Warren
James Benson

Iron and Heavy Guns: Duel Between the Monitor and the Merrimac by Gene A. Smith The Monitor vs. the Merrimack Great Battles through the Ages
Bruce L. Brager Caspar W. Weinberger The Monitor vs the Merrimack:Ironclads at War! by Dan Abnett

Beatles1964

Started Midget Submarines of the Second World War.

Through a Canadian Periscope: The Story of the Canadian Submarine Service just because it's been in the to-read pile since 1995!

GEOCO:

Put on your list the USS Cod submarine memorial/museum/boat in Cleveland, Ohio. Among our 20-plus such memorials, Cod is the most authentic. Go through hatches, climb vertical ladders, see a torpedo displayed, look through periscope, etc.

Never a need to apologize for any English errors. We Americans admire those of other countries who speak more than one language.

Among a civilian's favorites:

((Ned Beach)) ("Run Silent, Run Deep")

((Tom Clancy)) ("Hunt for Red October")

(Sontag, Drew, Drew)) ""Blind Man's Bluff")

Just got a copy of Back From the Deep, The Strange Story of the Sister Subs "Squalus" and "Sculpin" by arl Lavo.

Have recently read Escape from the Deep: A Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew by Alex Kershaw
This is the story of the USS Tang who in her five war patrols sank more enemy ships and rescued more airmen than any other allied ship at that time.
During her final 2 night battle (on her 5th patrol) with two convoys, sank 5 more ships before she was struck and sunk by a defective torpedo. Of the crew of ninety only 9 survived. 4 that were blow off the bridge, and 5 who made the not only historic but heroic accent from a depth of 180 ft.

The story of the battle and the escape read like a Hollywood movie script. But all true. The second part of the book deals with their capture and torture in the Japanese interrogation camp know as the "torture Farm"

The last few chapters deal with their return and not always a happy ending.

Alex Kershaw has wrote an excellent and readable history of a little known and regretfully almost forgotten part of the war in the Pacific.

For those who are reading Run Silent Run Deep, Beach wrote two follow ups to it Dust on the Sea which is the sequal to RSRD, and Cold is the Sea which is about a nuclear sub going under the north pole.

@nancybonar
Thanks for the information about the USS Cod submarine memorial/museum/boat in Cleveland, Ohio. The next time I'll coming to the USA I'll make a detour to Ohio.

Just purchased Gallant Lady: A Biography of the USS Archerfish
by Ken Henry and "Submarine" by Edward L. Beach. Looking farward to reading both.

"Submarine" by Edward L. Beach.

This was Beach's first book. In it he tells not only his experiences during his ten war patrols but in alternating chapters tells the story of other famous Submarines and crews. Anyone who has read anuthing about submarines in the Pacific will recognize the names of Wahoo, Tang, Trigger, Batfish, Archerfish etc. In it you see the development of the tactics that were used so successfully in WW 2. You can also see where he gets all his the material for Run Silent Run Deep, it's not just a novel but in many ways autobiographcal.
I think every script writer in Hollywood read this book. Because in it I can see every submarine movie that was made in the 50's

Received today after Royal Mail losing it for 2 weeks Dust on the Sea by Edward L. Beach.

29: Collectorator
You brought a smile to my face. I use to have a copy of Voyage to the bottom of the Sea

30: elbrutus.
Hope you enjoy "Dust On the Sea".

Hi everyone , just joined library thing. So pleased to find this Group. Got lots of Sub books and always looking for more, havent added them all to my library yet but will try to get them on this weekend.

Currently Reading 'Thetis , the Admiralty Regrets'

Looking forward to seeing everyones library for the ones i havent got.

Crush Depth by Joe Buff (I think this is the 3rd orn 4th book in the series)
Fairly standard Techno thriller in the vain of David Poyer's 'Dan Lenson Novels' The Circle, The Med etc. or
Patrick Robinson's 'Arnold Morgan' series Nimitz Class, Kilo Class etc.. If you are a fan of these authors or Clancy or Larry Bond, Dan Brown you won't be disappointed.

Just got 'War Beneath the Waves keith' (2010) by Don Keith. Bill Rush was the Diving Officer in the USS Billfish during a fifteen hour depth charge ordeal in the Makassar Strait off Borneo in November 1943. The air in the sub was so bad that people were passing out. Mr. Rush discovered that the control room had been abandoned by the the Captain and the two senior officers. Mr. Keith relieved the Captain of command and brought the sub back. He received the Navy Cross for this splendid example of combat leadership. This is not just another War Patrol report.

Have just purchased 'Weapons of Desperation' (2006) by Lawrence Paterson. This book was printed and bound in Britain so it may not be widely known in the USA. It is in my To-Be-Read pile. I have a few more Bookmooch requests to finish before I can get to it.

Apparently the Germans built hundreds of these tiny subs, and manned torpedoes, in the final months of the war. It would seem that their operational range and other performance problems greatly limited their effectiveness.

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The last American submarine to sink a Japanese ship in WW II, the USS TORSK, is still afloat alongside the National Aquarium in Baltimore, and is open for visitors to go aboard.
The only surviving warship still afloat that was at Pearl Harbor HI, on Dec. 7 1941, the USCGC TANEY, is also in Baltimore, a few piers over from from the TORSK. The TANEY is one of the larger Coast Guard vessels. It is also open to visitors.
We also have a working full size replica of the first ship of the U.S. Navy, the Frigate USS CONSTELLATION (1797), open to visitors, as well as the retired light-ship CHESAPEAKE.
For those with expanded interests, we have the only operating Liberty ship still afloat that was made in WW II, the JOHN BROWN. Also operating is the only steam-powered tugboat still afloat, but I forget the name right now. It is at the Baltimore Museum of Industry on the south side of the harbor. All of these vessels are within short walking distance of each other in downtown Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
To round out your visit, go to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, about twenty-five miles away. They have a Navy Museum. There is also the National Museum of the U.S. Navy at the Washington Navy Yard in D.C. Check it out at www.history.navy.mil/branches/org8-1.htm.
The National Aquarium, and Maryland Science Center with it's IMAX theater, at the Inner harbor, are also worth a visit.

Jim,
Both those books look interesting will have to look them up.
Baltimore's innner harbour has been on my list of places to vist for many years. Will make it one of these days.
Just a point of interest the JOHN BROWN was also used as a a High School in NYC to train many future Merchant Seamen. I'm lucky enough to work with a few of her graduates.

>36 JimThomson: Thanks JimThomson
The next time we'll comme to the USA (2011 ?) we'll visit Baltimore. We (my wife and I) already have visited shortly the US Naval Academy at Annapolis.

Just got Three new books beneath the waves: The life and Navy of Capt. Edward L. Beach by Edward F. Finch , War beneath the Waves by Don Keith and We Were Pirates by Robert Schultz and James Shell

Currently I am searching for all authors that have written about the Navy submarine fleet.Having read three of Michael Di Mercurio's books and the first two by Patrick Robinson,does anyone here have any novels by Richard P Henrick that they would enjoy selling me?

Started Stealth Boat: Fighting the Cold War in a Fast-Attack Submarine.