A further point on this subject. Unless in command on war breaking out, a submarine skipper would have, in addition to his own patrols as skipper, patrols as XO and possibly in other officer billets, before he started to rack up his own patrols. All patrols would have been a serious strain on the nerves, just how many could a man take?
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"Pitt was the greatest fool who ever lived to encourage a mode of war which they who commanded the seas did not want, and which, if successful, would deprive them of it." Earl St.Vincent (allegedly)
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