The British Navy was the only sourse of underwater assault technology. the development of the submarine began in 1900 and took 18 years to become a reasonable war machine, but until then the submarine was a crude vehicle.
“Submariners feel as much superior to the ordinary ‘big-ship’ mattaloe as a high-caste Hindu does to his low-caste brother. To be sent back to general service (the result of inefficiency on a submarine) reacts on them like a nail on a pneumatic tyre.” (W G Carr)
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