Thetis Down: The Slow Death of a Submarine

by Tony Booth

Book Overview

On 1 June 1939 His Majesty's Submarine Thetis sank in Liverpool Bay while on her diving trials. Her loss is still the worst peacetime submarine disaster the Royal Navy has yet faced when ninety-nine men drowned or slowly suffocated during their last fifty hours of life.

The disaster became an international media event, mainly because the trapped souls aboard were so near to being saved after they managed to raise her stern about 18 ft above...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526766604
• ISBN13: 9781526766601
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Pen and Sword Maritime
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"