Admiralty Salvage in Peace and War 1906–2006

Historian Tony Booth presents a fascinating history of British naval salvage over the course of a century during war and peacetime. The importance of marine salvage during armed conflict has been vastly underestimated since becoming a vital Naval arm during the First World War. Between 1915 and 1918 the Admiralty Salvage Section saved nearly 400 merchant vessels, desperately needed to bring food and war materials into Britain. During the Second World War, some two million tons of shipping was su