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Maritime Archaeology of a Modern Conflict

Innes McCartney
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Allied naval operations research
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Battle of the Atlantic
battlefield archaeology
Case Study
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conflict site analysis
Conning Tower
Deck Gun
Destroyer HMS
Dover minefield
Dover Patrol
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Fi Tted
Fi Ve
Flanders Flotilla
Hydrographic Offi
Hydrographic Record
hydrographic survey techniques
Inshore Campaign
maritime archaeology
Minefi Eld
Misidentifi Ed
Mystery Sites
nautical archaeology
naval history
naval warfare archaeology
Odyssey Marine Exploration
OIC
Pressure Hull
special intelligence
submarine wreck historical discrepancies
submarine wrecks
Torpedo Tubes
Tracking Room
U-boat identification methods
U-BOAT LOSSES
u-boats
underwater cultural heritage
World War I
World War II
Wreck Sites
Wynn 1997a
Wynn 1997b

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138814356
  • Weight: 680g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 19 Nov 2014
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

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 that the distribution and number of wrecks conflicted with the published histories of U-boat losses. Of all the U-boat war losses in the Channel, McCartney found that some 41% were heretofore unaccounted for in the historical literature of World War I and World War II.

This book reconciles these inaccuracies with the archaeological record by presenting case studies of a number of dives conducted in the English Channel. Using empirical evidence, this book investigates possible reasons historical inconsistencies persist and what Allied operational and intelligence-based processes caused them to occur in the first place. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers in the fields of nautical archaeology and naval history, as well as wreck explorers.
About Innes McCartney
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.

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