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Following the introduction of submarines in several navies, Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson, the First Sea Lord of the Royal Navy, stated in 1901 that submarines were "underhanded, unfair, and damned un-English", and that he would convince the Admiralty to have the crews of enemy submarines captured during wartime be hanged as pirates.
Rear-Admiral Arthur Wilson VC, the Controller of the Royal Navy, has gone down in history as the officer who claimed in 1901 "[Submarines are] underhand, unfair, and damned un-English. ... treat all submarines as pirates in wartime ... and hang all crews," [28] In fact he had advocated the purchase of submarines the year before, and he was ...
A damned un-English weapon: the story of British submarine warfare, 1914–18 (1971) The underwater war; submarines, 1914–1918 (1971) The Killing Time: the U-boat War, 1914–18 (1972) The Devil's device: the story of Robert Whitehead, inventor of the torpedo (1975) Fighting submarine (1979) Diving Stations (1984) Crash dive 500 (1985)
Following the introduction of submarines in several navies circa 1900, Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson, the First Sea Lord of the British Royal Navy, stated that submarines were "underhanded, unfair, and damned un-English", and that he would convince the British Admiralty to have the crews of enemy submarines captured during wartime hanged as pirates ...
Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization.
History; United Kingdom; Name: Sunfish: Builder: Chatham Dockyard: Laid down: 22 July 1935: Launched: 30 September 1936: Commissioned: 2 July 1937: Fate: Lent to the ...
(Spanish: ¿Quién puede matar a un niño?), released theatrically as Island of the Damned in the US, and Would You Kill A Child?, Death Is Child's Play (original release) and Island of Death (1979 re-release) in the UK, is a 1976 Spanish horror film directed by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador. The film follows an English couple who find an island ...
Argentina's brash libertarian President Javier Milei, speaking at the United Nations General Assembly, criticized the organization as a "Leviathan" monster, rejected its 'Pact for the Future' and ...