Poseidon: China's Secret Salvage of Britain's Lost Submarine

by Steven Schwankert and Steven R. Schwankert

Royal Navy submarine HMS Poseidon sank in collision with a Chinese freighter during routine exercises in 1931 off Weihaiwei. Thirty of its fifty-six-man crew scrambled out of the hatches as it went down. Of the twenty-six who remained inside, eight attempted to surface using "Davis gear," an early form of diving equipment: six of them made it safely to the surface in the first escape of this kind in submarine history and became heroes. The incident...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9888208187
• ISBN13: 9789888208180
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher