Deeper into the Darkness Macdonald Rod Paperback
Deeper into the Darkness Macdonald Rod Paperback Rod takes the reader diving to explore many more famous wrecks around the UK from the Great War. The wreck of HMS Hampshire on which Lord Kitchener…
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Deeper into the Darkness Macdonald Rod Paperback
Rod takes the reader diving to explore many more famous wrecks around the UK from the Great War. The wreck of HMS Hampshire on which Lord Kitchener perished on a secret mission to Russia in 1916 is visited along with HMS Vanguard, which blew up at anchor in 1917 in Scapa Flow. These include HMS Pathfinder and HMS Audacious - the first British battleship to be lost to enemy action in WWI.
Rod then leaps forward in time to the Pacific during WWII and visits the American shipwrecks from the Battle of Guadalcanal, along with daring penetrations into the stunning Japanese wrecks lying at the bottom of the Truk and Palau Lagoons. The K-class submarines lost in the Firth of Forth during the Battle of May Island in 1918 are dived, along with UB-116, the last German submarine to be sunk in action in October 1918. The development of technical diving is brought up to the present day where closed