Royal Navy submarine HMS Poseidon sank in collision with a Chinese freighter during routine exercises in 1931 off Weihaiwei. Thirty of its fifty-six-man crew scrambled out of the hatches as it went down. Of the twenty-six who remained inside, eight attempted to surface using Davis gear, an early form of diving equipment: six of them made it safely to the surface in the first escape of this kind in submarine history and became heroes. The incident was then forgotten, eclipsed by the greater drama that followed in World War II, until news emerged that, for obscure reasons, the Chinese government had salvaged the wrecked submarine in 1972. This lively account of the Poseidon incident tells the story of the accident and its aftermath, and of the author's own quest to find out about the 1972 salvage.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Hong KONG University Press
ISBN-13
9789888208180
eBay Product ID (ePID)
176536994
Product Key Features
Book Title
Poseidon-China's Secret Salvage of Britain's Lost Submarine
Author
Steven Schwankert
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Mind
Publication Year
2014
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
164mm
Item Weight
510g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Steven Schwankert
Country/Region of Manufacture
Hong Kong
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