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By Tony Booth
On 1 June 1939 His Majesty's Submarine Thetis sank in Liverpool Bay whereas on her diving trials. Her loss continues to be the worst peacetime submarine catastrophe the Royal army has but confronted whilst ninety-nine males drowned or slowly suffocated in the course of their final fifty hours of lifestyles.
The catastrophe grew to become a global media occasion, customarily as the trapped souls aboard have been so with regards to being stored once they controlled to elevate her stern approximately 18 toes above sea point. nonetheless the Royal Navy-led rescue operation did not locate the submarine for plenty of hours, purely to rescue 4 of all these trapped. little or no is understood approximately what really occurred, because the simply complete ebook written at the topic was once released in 1958.
Many years have now handed because the Thetis and her males died, for which nobody was once held to be finally responsible. although, loads of unpublished details has come to gentle in records through the uk and past. After 4 years of painstaking examine Thetis; The sluggish loss of life of a Submarine explores in minute element a extra rounded photograph of what rather occurred ahead of, in the course of and after her tragic loss. In doing so Tony Booth's e-book additionally takes a clean examine culpability and explores a few of the alleged conspiracy theories that surrounded her demise.
The result's the 1st definitive account what occurred to HMS Thetis – and her males – a becoming tribute, because the 70th anniversary of her loss should be on 1 June 2009.
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