| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 391 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
| Contents |
""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""PART ONE: IMPERIAL RIVALRIES 1880�1914""; ""1 Canada's Splendid Isolation""; ""2 German Designs on North America""; ""3 ""Heart-breaking starvation time""""; ""PART TWO: WHITHER AMERICA? 1914�1916""; ""4 Britain's Lifeline""; ""5 Canadian Intelligence and Patrols""; ""6 Three German Visitors""; ""7 The ""Piracy"" of U-53""; ""PART THREE: UNRESTRICTED U-BOAT WARFARE 1917�1918""; ""8 Defending the Convoys""; ""9 Long-Range U-Boats""; ""10 ""Hun Pirate Deviltry""""; ""11 The Pirates' Triumph and Canadian Response"" |
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12 Epilogue: Mad Dreams and MothballsNotes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y |
| Summary |
Michael Hadley and Roger Sarty shed new light on Canadian and German history -- and on Canada's naval defences in particular -- by exploring the naval operations and politics of both nations between 1880 and 1918. Beginning with Canada's feeling of "Splendid Isolation" and Germany's imperial ambitions against North America, the authors' intriguing and graphic account takes us from the early turmoil of federal politics in Canada to the conflict of the Great War and the eventual mothballing of the Canadian fleet. Having conducted an exhaustive study of Canadian, German, American, and British sources -- many of which have not been examined before -- Hadley and Sarty evaluate such major issues as policies and practice; intelligence schemes and spy scares; naval bills and the Dreadnought crisis; U-boats, commercial submarines, undersea cruisers, and surface raiders; and coastal patrols and convoy protection. Many factors that were believed to have been responsible for shaping -- and misshaping -- the Canadian Navy of 1939-45 are shown to have been in play during the First World War. Tin-Pots and Pirate Ships reveals the Canadian tradition of building a fleet only when needed, dismantling it once the conflict is over, and ultimately accepting terms dictated by alliance partners |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-376) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Canada. Royal Canadian Navy -- History -- 19th century
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Canada. Royal Canadian Navy -- History -- 20th century
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Canada. Royal Canadian Navy -- History -- World War, 1914-1918
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Canada. Royal Canadian Navy fast |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations, Canadian
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations, German
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HISTORY -- Military -- Naval.
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HISTORY -- Military -- Canada.
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Military operations, Naval -- German
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Marinepolitik
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Canada -- History, Naval
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Canada
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Kanada
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Deutschland
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Naval history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sarty, Roger, 1952-
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| ISBN |
9780773562608 |
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0773562605 |
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0773507787 |
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9780773507784 |
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