Tin-Pots and Pirate Ships ：Canadian Naval Forces and German Sea Raiders 1880-1918

Publication subTitle ：Canadian Naval Forces and German Sea Raiders 1880-1918

Author： Hadley   Michael L.  

Publisher： McGill-Queen's University Press‎

Publication year： 1991

E-ISBN: 9780773562608

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780773507784

Subject： E19 military history

Keyword： 军事

Language： ENG

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Description

The title Tin-Pots and Pirate Ships reflects a common Canadian attitude during the First World War: Canada's "Tin-Pot Navy" was maligned while the "Kaiser's Pirates" were feared. Not since Gilbert Tucker's classic, The Naval Service of Canada, has there been so comprehensive a study of the origins of the Canadian Navy, and no previous study has examined those origins from the perspective of the Canadian Navy's response to the German threat.

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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

12 Epilogue: Mad Dreams and Mothballs

Notes

Bibliography

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