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Serpent Of The Seas by Harley F. Cope, Commander, United States Navy Part of the GarnetsSubmarineBooks (Search for GarnetsSubmarineBooks) collection
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Printed 1942
Dedication: To Our Submariners Who Ceaselessly and Fearlessly Prowl the Seven Seas to Seek Out and Destroy Our Enemies.
This is a book to put new heart into everybody at a time that "tries men's souls." To the youth that loves adventure it bring a thrll not of fiction but of the utter reality of truth abotu the men who go under the sea in ships. To older readers, both men and women, it presents the rgim and accurate record of the fortitude and the skill always in the day's work of the hardy men in our submarine fleet.
It provides complete and comprehensive information about the mechanism of a submarine from the earliest days down to the present hour when the subamrine is rated as the deadliest engine of war on the seven seas.
The rigor of life of the submariners, the way the live from week to week, and fight the enemy they are always seeking out, even as he is trying to vanquish them, as well as the mental and physical equipment necessary for the career of a ubmariner, - all this is dramatically shown by Commander Cope.
His book is actually a kind of autobiography of his submarine experiences as well as a most valuable study of the importance and efficiency of the submarines of the great nations in World War I as compared with the great advancement made in the present conflict, which Commander Cope calls the Greater World War.
Born at Dallas, Texas, Commander Harley F. Cope was admitted to the Naval Academy at Annapolis from Louisiana in 1916. His record reveals how various the appointments of a Naval Offi cer. His first assignment after his graduation from the Academy in 1919 was to the transport of American troops returnign from France. Later in that same year he was attached to a destroyer flotilla that cruised in PAcific and South American waters.
From this now very familiar region in the southern half of the Western Hemisphere, Commander Cope's next task took him to the Orient in 1921, where he remained for a year. In Asiatic wateres he was occupied with engineering duties. From the Orient he swung far westward again to enter the Navy Submarine School at New London, Conn. Here he spent five months in intensive training, which he began in January 1923.
At Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in May 1924, he was on the submarine R-10. Only a year later he received his own command, the R-9, which he held for two years. Commander Cope undertook special work at the Naval Academy in 1929, which was followed by a similar engagement at the University of Madrid, Spain.
His second tour of duty on Asiatic statiosn came subsequently and he commanded the S-40 until January 1932. Later he went back to the Submarine School at New London as an instructor, and then Aide to the Commander of the Submarine Base there. He was aide and flag secretary to the Commander of Battleship Divsion 2 in 1935; Aide to the Commandant at the Navy Yard at Washington D.C. in 1937; Navigator of the battlship Idaho in 1939; Commander of the destroyer Davis in 1941; and in 1941 Commander Cope was Captain of the Naval tanker Salinas. The torpedoing of the Salinas is the basis of one of the most exciting chapters in this book.
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