Название: Fairlie’s Secret War: How One Village Helped Defeat German U-Boats
Автор: John Riddell
Издательство: Birlinn Ltd
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 256
Размер: 11,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

During the Second World War the Royal Navy’s vitally important Anti-submarine Experimental Establishment was secretly moved from Portland in Dorset to the Ayrshire village of Fairlie, to escape German bombing on the south coast. For the next six years it occupied the boatyard of yacht builder William Fife on the Firth of Clyde. During this time, highly confidential world-leading research on the acoustic detection of submarines by asdic – now known as sonar – was carried out by hundreds of scientists, officers and local men and women based at Fairlie.