For documents cancerning the period of chief importance in the introduction of ironclads, the British and French naval archives have been open to historians only since the close of the recent World War.
My story begins on Jnauary 1, 1942. Two and a half years out of the Naval Academy, and fresh out of Submarine School,
Captain Shelford is uniquelified to write this book. He was in charge of Submarine Escape training during the peroid of the greatest expansion of the British Submarine Fleet in World War II