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      THE LISTENERS

      U-BOAT HUNTERS

      DURING THE GREAT WAR

      ROY R. MANSTAN

      THE LISTENERS

      WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

      MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT

      Wesleyan University Press

      Middletown CT 06459

       www.wesleyan.edu/wespress

      © 2018 Roy R. Manstan

      All rights reserved

      Manufactured in the United States of America

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      Typeset in Charter and Clarendon by

      Nord Compo

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Manstan, Roy R., author.

      Title: The listeners : U-boat hunters during the Great War / Roy R. Manstan.

      Other titles: U-boat hunters during the Great War

      Description: Middletown CT : Wesleyan University Press, [2018] | Series: Garnet books | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2018017912 (print) | LCCN 2018020180 (ebook) | ISBN 9780819578372 (ebook) | ISBN 9780819578358 (cloth)

      Subjects: LCSH: World War, 1914–1918—Naval operations—Submarine. | Anti-submarine warfare—United States—History—20th century. | United States Naval Engineering Experiment Station—History. | World War, 1914–1918—Connecticut—New London. | Hydrophone—History—20th century. | Submarines (Ships)—Germany—History—20th century. | World War, 1914–1918—Aerial operations. | World War, 1914–1918—Campaigns—Atlantic Ocean.

      Classification: LCC D590 (ebook) | LCC D590.M36 2018 (print) | DDC 940.4/5160973—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018017912

      Front cover illustration: Submarine UB-148 at sea. Courtesy: National Archives, photo no. 19-N-11434.

       CONTENTS

       PREFACE: SUBMARINE WARFARE-ITS GENESIS IN CONNECTICUT / VII

       INTRODUCTION: THE WAR TO END ALL WARS / 1

       PART ONE 1914-1916

       CHAPTER 1: PREDATOR AND PREY / 11

       CHAPTER 2: THE FIRTH OF FORTH / 20

       CHAPTER 3: SIGHS OF A LOVESICK MERMAID / 29

       CHAPTER 4: HUNTING SUBMARINES FROM SHORE / 40

       CHAPTER 5: A GAME OF HIDE AND SEEK / 46

       CHAPTER 6: LUSITANIA / 55

       CHAPTER 7: AMERICA AWAKENS / 62

       CHAPTER 8: PREPARING FOR THE INEVITABLE / 70

       PART TWO 1917

       CHAPTER 9: AMERICA ENTERS THE WAR / 79

       CHAPTER 10: CROSSING THE ATLANTIC / 88

       CHAPTER 11: THE FIRST TENTATIVE STEPS / 94

       CHAPTER 12: PHYSICS PURE AND SIMPLE / 101

       CHAPTER 13: A SOUND DETECTOR OF EXCEEDING DELICACY / 110

       CHAPTER 14: FROM THE LABORATORY TO SEA / 122

       CHAPTER 15: MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH / 136

       CHAPTER 16: A “PROBABLE” FIRST KILL / 150

       PART THREE 1918

       CHAPTER 17: COLDEST WINTER ON RECORD / 163

       CHAPTER 18: THE NAVAL RESERVE FLYING CORPS / 172

       CHAPTER 19: LISTENERS IN THE SKY / 181

       CHAPTER 20: THE CRAZY AMERICAN—U-BOATS BEWARE / 201

       CHAPTER 21: INVISIBLE LIGHT AND OTHER MAGIC / 215

       CHAPTER 22: U-BOATS WESTWARD TO AMERICA / 228

       CHAPTER 23: AMERICA EASTWARD TO THE WAR / 240

       CHAPTER 24: LISTENERS AT THE FRONT AND ARMISTICE / 255

       EPILOGUE: THE WAR THAT DID NOT END ALL WARS / 271

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