| Description |
232 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, plan ; 31 cm |
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Hardback |
| Contents |
Captain -- Executive Officer -- Our submarine heritage: AE1/AE2 -- Divisions - maritime commander's parade -- Chief of the boat -- Warfare officer -- Acoustic warfare -- For those in peril on the sea -- Electronics -- Navigator -- Our submarine heritage: J boats -- Weapon weight compensation -- Medic -- Electronic warfare -- Our submarine heritage: K.IX -- Awarding the dolphins -- Communications -- The trade -- The galley -- Perisher submarine command course -- Syncro lift -- Maintenance -- Our submarine heritage: HMAS Platypus -- The trainee -- Our submarine heritage: Oxley and Otway -- Sea riders -- Vertical replenishment -- Our submarine heritage: Oberon boats -- Decommissioning of HMAS Otama -- The submariner's wife -- The wrecker -- Underwater detonation -- Design and build -- Escape training -- Through life management -- Genesis: the ASC project -- Project management -- Underwater systems -- Defence projects director -- Sonar -- Commodore -- Our submarine heritage: Z-Force -- Submarine training -- Chief of Staff -- Preserving the heritage -- Our submarine heritage: Fremantle Second World War -- HMAS Ovens -- appendix: The Collins Class Submarine |
| Summary |
"With their sleek, mysterious silhouettes, aura of secrecy, and vital defence role, submarines have always possessed an enduring fascination. What makes someone choose to be a submariner? What is it like to spend your working life confined in an underwater metal tube for months at a time? To find out, authors Jon Davison and Tom Allibone spent over a year with the Royal Australian Navy Submarine Force Element Group, and twelve days on board HMAS Rankin. They joined the vessel in Sydney towards the end of a six-month, 21,000 km overseas deployment and travelled aboard the submarine to her home port in Western Australia." "In the confines of the 78-metre long vessel, they photographed, interviewed and shared the lives of crew, gaining an insight into their day-to-day routine and the qualities essential in a submariner." "In this pictorial tribute, the authors have interspersed intimate images and candid personal interviews with archival material spanning Australia's long association with submarines."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
"Featuring HMAS Rankin as seen in the SBS television series Submariners" -- Cover |
| Audience |
Adult |
| Subject |
Australia. Royal Australian Navy -- Submarine forces -- History.
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Australia. Royal Australian Navy -- Submarine forces.
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Submarines (Ships)
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Submarine warfare -- Australia.
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Submarines (Ships) -- Australia -- History.
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Submarine warfare -- Australia -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Author |
Allibone, Tom.
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Australia. Royal Australian Navy.
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| LC no. |
2006404549 |
| ISBN |
1920694625 hardback |
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9781920694623 hardback |
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