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The Mighty Hood: The Life and Death of Britain’s Proudest Warship*
By Ernie Bradford. Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1959. Illustrated. 239 pages. $4.95.
REVIEWED BY
Raymond V. B. Blackman
(Mr. Blackman has been the editor Jane’s Fighting Ships since 1949, and is the author oj The World’s Warships and The Modern World Book of Ships. During World War II he was in the Chief Scientist’s Division, Mine Design Department, Admiralty.)
About three quarters of this book is concerned with the pre-battle history of HMS Hood between the two world wars. Nevertheless this “in being” life does not detract from the Hood saga: it is a necessary preliminary to the emergence of her mightier adversary of a succeeding generation and the death of Britain’s proudest warship.
The account of Hood’s cruises round the world, showing the flag as a bastion of Albion and a symbol of the might of the Royal Navy, then the most powerful fleet in the world, well bears reading, and it is refreshing to find the chronicle written in “sailorese” rather than journalese. Mr. Bradford knows his navy and the life in it, though it is obvious that the period he covers was before his time and he has had to cull many an episode from his elders. But his account is faithful, for the present reviewer was a witness to several of Hood’s peacetime forays overseas.
It is a pity that the thoroughness with which sea training in general and gunnery training in particular was pursued in Hood, as evidenced in this biography, and in lesser ships between the wars, was not extended to revising the design and reconstructing the interior of Hood to render her battleworthy and make her as mighty as she was popularly reputed to be until the moment of her destruction. After all, the inherent fault in the great ship had been strongly suspected, if not known with certainty, ever since the Battle of Jutland when, as the author mentions, Admiral Beatty turned to Captain Chatfield on the bridge of the battle cruiser Lion with the remark: “There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today,” after seeing the
battle cruiser Queen Mary break her back and disappear in a column of smoke.
The Admiralty seems to have been so keen to keep the handsome and symmetrical Hood at sea and maintain her reputation as the biggest and best that there was no opportunity of placing her in dockyard hands long enough to give her the reconstruction so necessary to bring her up to defensive, as opposed to offensive, requirements.
On the other hand the Admiralty was not slow to realize the importance of radar, and it says much for British scientists that they had developed radio direction finding, as it was then known, sufficiently to use it in the hunt for Bismarck and bring her to book. And if the loss of Hood had shaken the people’s faith in British ship design, the pursuit and destruction of Bismarck showed that the overall control of the naval war was in hands as competent as ever they had been in the hundreds of years existence of the Royal Navy.
Written by a sailor in nautical and military language, and presenting a true picture of life at sea in the Royal Navy, only two points in the book irritated this reviewer: the confusion between the First Sea Lord and the First Lord of the Admiralty on page 20, and a misspelling of Admiral Dreyer’s name.
Surveyor of the Sea: The Life and Voyages of Captain George Vancouver
By Bern Anderson. Seattle: University of
Washington Press, 1959. 274 pages. $6.75.
REVIEWED BY
Edouard A. Stackpole
(Mr. Stackpole is Director, Munson Institute of American Maritime History and Curator, Marine Historical Association, Inc., Mystic Seaport.)
In this understanding biography of one of the world’s outstanding explorers, Rear Admiral Anderson has given us a study of an explorer and navigator who has been curiously half-forgotten by maritime historians. From the time the youth, George Vancouver, at the age of 12 went aboard Captain Cook’s Resolution in 1772, and became a part of a great voyage of discovery, until his death in comparative obscurity in 1798, he was a seafarer in its truest sense.
Vancouver learned his trade as a navigator and sea surveyor in the best possible school—• the after-quarters of Resolution, where Dr. William Wales, the expedition’s astronomer, taught the midshipmen mathematics, astronomy, and navigation, and, with the aid of a Harrison chronometer, how to get their longitude. It was for this eminent teacher that Vancouver named Point Wales in Alaska. No greater voyages than Cook’s could have supplied his officers and crew with such a variety of adventure, and Vancouver proved an apt pupil. From Antarctic seas with iceberg dangers, to tropical South Sea islands and idyllic landfalls, to the shores of the northwest coast where Vancouver was to make history, the vessels of Cook brought new glory to England’s name, and the young midshipman was a part of the scene. Vancouver’s participation in the dread incident which saw Cook killed is an illustration of how fate often decrees life or death in close proximity to each other, as the young midshipman could have been killed by the natives of Hawaii at the same moment they were treacherously slaying the great Captain.
After undistinguished cruises in the Caribbean Islands, during which he helped survey Port Royal Harbor for the Admiralty, Vancouver became associated with Commodore Alan Gardner, who was to prove a valuable friend. Shortly after Vancouver’s return home came the impending trouble between Spain and England over the lucrative fur trade on the northwest coast of America. England had no intention of giving up her Nootka Sound claims on what is now the west coast of Vancouver Island. Originally selected as second in command of the new ship Discovery, constructed to be sent to the Pacific on a cruise to survey the northwest coast, as well as to search for a possible northeast passage (to connect the legendary northwest passage) through the continent, Vancouver busied himself outfitting the ship. The threat of war temporarily sidetracked the expedition, but Spain’s recognition of England’s superiority at sea forced her to relinquish her exclusive rights to Nootka Sound. Acting promptly, the Admiralty dispatched Discovery, now under Vancouver, to reinstitute England’s claims to Nootka and then survey the northwest coast of North America from 30° north latitude to
Cook Inlet in Alaska. The sturdy cutter Chatham, under Lieutenant William Broughton, became Discovery's consort. With Cook as a precedent, Vancouver understandably had a good deal to say as to the instructions issued him by the Admiralty. It was fortunate for England this was so, as his subsequent conduct revealed his singleness of purpose.
Leaving Falmouth on 1 April 1791, the two vessels of the expedition rounded the Cape of Good Hope and, after a stay at Cape Town, sailed for Australia and New Zealand. Vancouver’s charting of the southwest coast of Australia and claiming of his findings for England, were important. After a stay at New Zealand’s Dusky Bay, Vancouver sailed for Tahiti and en route discovered Rapa Island. Upon arrival at Mata via Bay—Chatham was found to have arrived ahead of them—the English crews hoped to go through typical adventures ashore but Vancouver was adamant in preventing it. Vancouver’s treatment of his crew reflected the lessons he had learned from Cook. He was a strict disciplinarian. His dealings with the natives were also strict but fair. The last years of his life were clouded by an unproved accusation that he had flogged a midshipman. Anderson’s theory of certain irrational aspects of Vancouver’s behavior, in respect to violent outbreaks of temper, is realistic.
It was at Hawaii that Vancouver showed his understanding of the strategic value of the islands by his judicious treatment of Kame- hameha. His recognition of native politics, his appraisal of the geographical situation of the island group, and his careful study of available harbors led him to one conclusion—the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands were a ripe sea-plum which England would do well to pluck. Fortunately for later American interests, the Admiralty did not appreciate the significance of Vancouver’s study and the advantage was lost.
Soon after his arrival in the northwest coast, Vancouver’s careful survey began. He and his officers made astronomical observations wherever possible. To read Rear Admiral Anderson’s carefully documented biography is to gain a new insight into the problem which beset Vancouver—a man determined to be as accurate as his instruments, his mathematics, and his diligence would make him.
The great mystery of Vancouver’s failure to recognize the mouth of the Columbia River is not so strange when the reader examines the odd characteristics of this river bar. This and other circumstances indicate that Vancouver may have reserved his opinion for a later survey, but it is still a puzzling question. Captain Robert Gray’s prior discovery became of vital importance, and it occurred only two weeks before meeting Vancouver.
Perhaps the value of the author’s study of Vancouver is in his sympathetic understanding of the problems which beset the man. Only a seaman could appreciate the disadvantage of approaching new landfalls without charts, and only a man versed in the ways of the sea may evaluate the tremendous work which Vancouver accomplished in his monumental survey of a vitally important part of our American world.
Rear Admiral Anderson has given us a fine biography of a navigator who deserves to be better known. It is hoped that those who read this volume will find Vancouver’s own account of his voyages, and in reading them gain the insight which his biographer has so well demonstrated.
The Professional Soldier: A Social and Political Portrait* **
By Morris Janowitz. Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1960. Appendix, Index. 464 pages. $6.75.
REVIEWED BY
Rear Admiral Ben Scott Custer, USN (Ret.)
(Rear Admiral Custer holds a doctorate in American History from Georgetown University and currently is an officer of Columbia University in central administration.)
Once in a while a reviewer is given a really exciting book to comment on: The Professional Soldier, by Morris Janowitz, is such. No one else has made a sociological study of the Officer Corps of the Armed Forces, though most civilian professional groups have been studied and reported upon for years. Here is a thorough analysis, for this century, of the social, political, and professional aspects of the officer class, made by a professor of sociology at Michigan who is a sometime consultant to the Department of the Army.
This is not a book to be picked up for light reading; it is instead a very serious study of the Officer Corps, and for those who approach it as a means to a better understanding of themselves and their profession, it will prove a most illuminating and rewarding experience. Reading the first part of the book, one was led to make favorable comparisons with J. W. Cash’s Mind of the South, but Dr. Janowitz’ work lacks the easy, graceful prose which made of the other book a classic. This study will, however, infuriate many Service readers, just as easily as the other infuriated many Southern readers.
Most of the general conclusions which Dr. Janowitz reaches are amply backed by statistical data, including a Gallup Poll, which shows that officers are rated by the American people with radio announcers and below public school teachers, and that the enlisted men are classed with plumbers and below garage mechanics! He points up what some of us have been saying for a long time: that if the personnel of the Armed Forces are paid a living wage there must be other incentives to keep them in the Service; we cannot and should not attempt to compete on a monetary basis with industry. It was my feeling that in the study the Navy showed up better than either of the other Services, but perhaps this conclusion was reached because of a flaw in “the eye of the beholder” rather than the weight of the author’s argument. He shows that the Navy traditionally has had higher social standing, better technical training, a more homogeneous fraternity, and a more cosmopolitan group of flag officers. But he contends that we are more rigid in our doctrine and more conservative in our politics than the other Services.
The Professional Soldier is sure to have a profound influence upon many phases of the selection, training, education, and managerial functions of future officers. It is hoped that it will be studied by the civilian secretaries and members of the Armed Forces Committees in Congress, and, of course, by all those who wish to achieve a better understanding of themselves and their own Service. All the dedicated officers should read it and all the ambitious officers undoubtedly will.
George Washington’s Navy**
By William Bell Clark. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1960. 275 pages. Illustrated. $5.00. (Through the courtesy of Louisiana State University Press, Naval Institute members may purchase this book at $4.00.)
REVIEWED BY
Commander William J. Morgan, USNR
{Dr. Morgan is Head of the Historical Research Section, Naval History Division, Navy Department. He recently has written Captains to the Northward: The New England Captains in the Continental Navy.)
General Washington, who came to regard naval strength as “the pivot upon which everything turned,” was confronted with British control of the seas as soon as he took command of the Continental Army in July 1775. While the Americans tightly besieged the enemy in Boston, Washington was powerless to stop the steady flow of supplies and reinforcements coming to that city by water.
At this opening stage of the Revolution, Washington made his initial excursion into naval affairs and first demonstrated what Commodore Dudley W. Knox has rightly called the General’s naval genius. Under Washington’s direction, small vessels were obtained in the coastal towns of New England and sent out to prey on British supply lines with the hope of diverting ships and cargoes to the needy Continentals. It is to the exploits of this “Navy,” a Lilliputian force never exceeding six war vessels but which signalled the beginning of American sea power, that Mr. Clark has devoted this most recent addition to his good naval works.
The account of Washington’s Navy is not an easy one to write. It is essentially the recurring story of the problems of procurring, arming, manning, and cruising the little schooners, of the naval agents’ avarice and bickering, and endless delays in disposing of prizes. Except, perhaps, for the action with the Scotch transports and Captain Mugford’s heroic fight to the death in defense of his command, Franklin, the narrative of commerce-raiding cruisers lacks the inherent drama found in the subjects of earlier books by the author.
Washington’s crews were a mutinous lot,
particularly when prize money was slow in coming. The harassed General wrote of his seagoing Yankee soldiers: “The plague, trouble and vexation I have had with the crews of all the armed vessels, are inexpressible. I do believe there is not on earth a more disorderly set. Every time they come into port, we hear of nothing but mutinous complaints.” Nevertheless, his “rascally privateersmen” took 55 enemy ships, together with welcome ladings of powder, guns, clothing, and provisions. It is interesting to note how often the captured cargoes included wines, and fruits—the beleaguered British were not overlooking the creature comforts.
That Mr. Clark is a master of his materials is evidenced by the meticulous and scholarly style of the book. This is a mastery gained by many decades of research in early naval records. His excellent comments on sources and notes will be welcomed by any student of the American Revolution.
Mr. Clark contends that although Washington set in motion the first Continental naval effort in the fall of 1775, he did not
grasp the “full significance” of seapower until the New York campaign the following autumn. However, as Washington watched the British prepare to evacuate Boston by sea in March 1776 and to use their naval mobility to strike again, he knew not where, when he lamented that there was “no possibility of stopping them,” it seems that the great General came close to understanding the “full significance” of seapower prior to New York.
Narvik*
By Captain Donald Macintyre, RN. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1960. Illustrated. 224 pages. $3.95.
REVIEWED BY
Commander Henry H. Adams, USNR
( The reviewer is an associate professor, Department of English, History, and Government, U. S. Naval Academy.)
Captain Donald Macintyre, most noted for his exploits in command of HMS Walker during the Battle of the Atlantic, whose escort
The Navy’s Polaris:
from nowhere to
anywhere
group in a single day wrote finis to the wartime careers of two of Germany’s three most famous aces, has in the last few years been making a name for himself as a naval historian. His latest work, Narvik, upholds the standard he has set in his Jutland and Thunder of the Guns. In Narvik, Captain Macintyre deals with the naval aspects of the now largely overshadowed Norwegian campaign in the spring of 1940. The later successful operations in the European theater—North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and France—have caused the Norwegian story to be neglected. Yet it is a campaign that repays study. Germany, combining surprise and ruthlessness, was able to transport her assault forces to their target areas in defiance of vastly superior British sea power. Before the British and the Norwegians could recover from the surprise, the Germans had attained their principal objectives. When the British hit back in cooperation with the Norwegians, it was a lost cause from the beginning, made the more hopeless by strategic indecision and by inadequate strength.
Captain Macintyre attributes the British failure in Norway to three main weaknesses.
The first was the absence of British air power, which, according to him, was the result of the transfer of the Fleet Air Arm to the Royal Air Force in 1918. In consequence naval officers did not know aircraft and their capabilities nor did RAF officers know ships and their capabilities. A few naval planes available off Norway were no match for their German opponents, while the RAF planes could not reach the targets. As a result, the British fleet had to stand up to air attack on the scene and to learn with bitterness the inadequacy of both their air doctrine and of their own antiaircraft weapons. The outcome was almost total withdrawal of heavy ships from Norwegian waters; they could not be risked unsupported against land-based air.
The second weakness characterized by Captain Macintyre was the almost complete absence of joint planning and joint instructions to the commanders in the field. The senior naval officer and the senior army officer in the expedition to retake Narvik were co-equal, and their instructions were widely divergent in tone and emphasis. Lastly, the author points up the vacillation of the direc-
Erupting from the ocean that blankets most of the earth, the Navy’s Polaris missile will have the range to reach any strategic target. It will be launched from mobile bases that are safe from surprise attack—nuclear-powered submarines that cruise fast and deep for weeks on end, each carrying 16 Polaris missiles. This is the Navy's Fleet Ballistic Missile system. It becomes operational this year. Lockheed is prime contractor and system manager for the Polaris missile.
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tion of the campaign on the part of the high command, the frequent shifting of aims, and the tendency on the part of the War Office and the Admiralty to interfere with and override the decisions of the commanders on the scene.
The lessons of the Norwegian campaign make bitter reading, but they were lessons that the British and their allies as well had to learn before they could march on to victory. More and greater disasters lay ahead, but the seeds of needed reform were sown as a result of this disastrous campaign.
Captain Macintyre’s book thus becomes a valuable text for anyone who would learn the effects of complacency, ultra-conservatism, and doctrine of convenience in the lean years of peace. His book makes fascinating reading.
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English-French-Spanish-Italian-German-Portuguese. 1953. 326 pages.
Naval Shiphandling................................................................................... .................................... $5.00 ($4.00)
By Captain R. S. Crenshaw, Jr., USN. 2nd edition, 1960. 529 pages. 175 illustrations.
Physical Training
See V-Five Physical Education Series.
Practical Manual of the Compass..................................................................................................... $3.60 ($2.88)
By Captain Harris Laning, USN, and Lieutenant Commander H. D. McGuire, USN. 1921. 172 pages. Illustrated.
Principles of Electronics and Electronic Systems.................................................... $7.50 ($6.00)
Edited by Professor John L. Daley, U. S. Naval Academy, and Commander F. S. Quinn, Jr.,
USN. 2nd edition, 2nd printing, 1959. 492 pages. 556 figures.
Sets of all 12 cover pictures appearing on the Proceedings in each year of 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959. Printed on 13 x 13 mat. Complete set of 12 for any year.
Proceedings Cover Pictures............................................................................................................. $2.50 ($1.88)
Reef Points
The Handbook of the Brigade of Midshipmen, 1960-1961 ................................ $1.35, net
Compiled by the Reef Points Staff of the Trident Society. The plebe’s bible, a compact book covering the Naval Academy and the history and traditions of the Naval Service.
Refresher Course in Fundamental Mathematics lor Basic Technical Training . . $ .30, net
Prepared by Training Division, Bureau of Naval Personnel. 1942. 176 pages. Paper bound.
Round-Shot to Rockets................................................................................................................... $3.00 ($2.25)
By Taylor Peck. A history of the Washington Navy Yard and U. S. Naval Gun Factory. 1919. 267 pages. Illustrated.
The Rule of Nine............................................................................................................................. $ .60 ($ .48)
By William Wallace, Jr. An easy, speedy way to check addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. 1959. 32 pages. Paper bound.
The Rules of the Nautical Road ...................................................................................................... $5.00 ($4.00)
By Captain R. F. Farwell, USNR. Revised by Lieutenant Alfred Prunski, U. S. Coast Guard. Revised 2nd edition, 4th printing, 1959. 577 pages. Illustrated.
Russian Supplement to Naval Phraseology......................................................... $4.00. ($3.20)
By Professor Claude P. Lemieux, U. S. Naval Academy. 2nd revised edition. 1954. 146 pages.
Sailing and Small Craft Down the Ages............................................................... $6.50. ($4.88)
By E. L. Bloomster. Reprinted, 1957. 290 pages. 425 silhouette drawings. Trade edition. (Deluxe autographed edition) $12.50 ($10.00)
The Sea War in Korea......................................................................................................................... $6.00. ($4.50)
By Commander Malcolm W. Cagle, USN, and Commander Frank A. Manson, USN. 1957. 560 pages. 176 photographs. 20 charts.
Service Etiquette................................................................................................................................. $5.50. ($4.13)
By Rear Admiral Bruce McCandless, USN (Ret.), Captain Brooks J. Harral, USN, and Oretha D. Swartz. Correct Social Usage for Service Men on Official and Unofficial Occasions. 1959. 364 pages.
Ships of the United States Navy and Their Sponsors
Vol. Ill—1924-1950 $10-00 ($7.50)
Compiled by Keith Frazier Somerville and Harriotte W. B. Smith. 1952. 640 pages. Illustrated.
Vol. IV—1950-1958 ................................................................................ ..................................... - $10.00 ($7.50)
Compiled by Keith Frazier Somerville and Harriotte W. B. Smith. 1959. 320 pages. Illustrated.
Special price—2-volume set: Volumes 111 and IV (listed above) .... $15.00 ($11.25)
Sons of Gunboats................................................................................................................. $2.75 ($2.07)
By Commander F. L. Sawyer, USN (Ret.). Personal narrative of gunboat experiences in the Philippines, 1899 1900. 1946. 166 pages. Illustrated.
Squash Racquets .................................................................................................................. $1.60 ($1.28)
By Commander Arthur M. Potter, USNR. 1958. 60 pages. Photographs and diagrams. Paper bound.
The United States Coast Guard, 1790-1915 ......................................................................... $5.00 ($3.75)
By Captain Stephen H. Evans, U. S. Coast Guard. A definitive history (With a Postscript: 1915-1949). 1919. 228 pages. Illustrated.
The United States Coast Guard in World War II................................................................... $6.00 ($4.50)
By Malcolm F. Willoughby. 1957. 346 pages. 200 photographs. 27 charts.
United States Destroyer Operations in World War II............................................................. $10.00 ($7.50)
By Theodore Roscoe. 2nd printing. 1957.581 pages. Illustrated.
United States Submarine Operations in World War II........................................................... $10.00 ($7.50)
By Theodore Roscoe. 6th printing, 1958. 577 pages. Illustrated.
Special price—2-volume set: Destroyer and Submarine books (listed above) $15.00 ($11.25)
The V-Five Physical Education Scries Basketball
Temporarily out of stock.
Boxing ....................................... $4.00 ($3.00)
288 pages.
Conditioning Exercises . . $4.50 ($3.38)
3rd edition. 1960. 275 pages.
How to Survive on Land and
Sea......................................... $4.00 ($3.00)
2nd revised edition, 1958. 362 pages. Intramural Programs . . . $4.00 ($3.00)
249 pages.
Soccer.................................... $4.00 ($3.00)
192 pages.
Football
Temporarily out of stock.
Gymnastics and Tumbling . $4.50 ($3.38)
2nd revised edition. 1959. 410 pages.
Hand to Hand Combat . . $4.00 ($3.00)
228 pages.
Swimming and Diving
Temporarily out of stock.
Track and Field .... $4.00 ($3.00)
217 pages.
Championship Wrestling . . $4.50 ($3.38)
Completely revised. 1958. 218 pages.
Victory Without War, 1958-1961 $2.00 ($1.50)
By George Fielding Eliot. 1958. 126 pages.
Watch O(Fleer’s Guide............................................................................................... $2.00.... ($1.60)
Revised by Captain J. V. Noel, Jr., USN. 8th edition, 1960. 302 pages. Illustrated.
We Build a Navy........................................................................................................ $2.75.... ($2.07)
By Lieutenant Commander H. H. Frost, USN. A vivid and dramatic narrative of our early Navy. 1929. 517 pages. Illustrated.
Welcome Aboard....................................................................................................... $3.50.... ($2.63)
By Florence Ridgely Johnson. A guide for the naval officer’s bride. Revised 7th printing. 1958. 288 pages.
Your Naval Academy................................................................................................. $1.00.... ($ .75)
By Midshipmen Burton and Hart. A handsome 48-page pictorial presentation of a Midshipman’s life at the Naval Academy. Brief descriptive captions. Paper bound.
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