#HMAS AE2

[yallambie]

Voyage to the Bottom of the Seeing

It’s been claimed that in the heady years of old Empire, in the years leading up to the First “Great” War, senior British naval strategists resisted the temptation of introducing new submarine sailing technology into the Royal Navy, convinced that submarine warfare represented a wholly unwanted and cowardly way of conducting the time honoured practice of naval fighting. If allowed, they worried…

[sydneynews]

During the Gallipoli Campaign, HMAS AE2, a Royal Australian Navy submarine, is sunk by enemy shellfire in the Sea of Marmara in present-day Turkey.