Author: Williams, Mark,
Title: CAPTAIN GILBERT ROBERTS RN AND THE ANTI-U-BOAT SCHOOL.
Description: Cassell, London, 1979, 1st edn., 186pp incl. 4pp diagrams, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, an account of the naval career of Capt. Gilbert Roberets who joined the Royal Navy in 1913 as a cadet, and had held a number of unusual appointments by 1937 when, in command of the destroyer Fearless, it was found that he was suffering from Tuberculosis. He was discharged from the Navy but recalled to a desk job in 1940. He was sent to Liverpool to command Royal Navy's Western Approaches Tactical Unit, which studied the German U-boat strategy and went on to develop counter-measures for the convoys and escorts, and trained numerous naval officers in the methods which proved so successful and enabled the Battle of the Atlantic to be won. Not to be confused with the practical training of convoy escort officers and crews that took place at HMS Western Isles at Mull, under Commodore Gilbert Stephenson, Captain Gilbert Roberts operated a naval wargaming unit which came up with the tactics known as Raspberry, Pineapple, Beta-Search and Step-Aside, and trained officers in their implementation, edges alittle tanned, light foxing to upper edge, dustwrapper: lightly creased along upper edge, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 navy anti submarine u-boat uboat western approaches battle atlantic raspberry pineapple, beta search step aside


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