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13 Sharks (ePub)

The Careers of a series of small Royal Navy Ships, from the Glorious Revolution to D-Day.

Maritime > Naval > Royal Navy WWI > Battles & Campaigns > Jutland

By John D Grainger
Imprint: Pen & Sword Maritime
File Size: 1.1 MB (.epub)
Pages: 233
ISBN: 9781473877269
Published: 27th July 2016

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John D Grainger charts the careers of the thirteen vessels that have served the Royal Navy under the name HMS Shark. Despite the ferocious name, they have all been relatively small vessels including one brigantine, five sloops, one Sixth Rate, a gunvessel, four destroyers and a submarine. Collectively they therefore give a good representation of the various roles of these types, which receive far less attention than larger, more glamorous ships. Furthermore, as the first entered service in 1699 and the last was sunk in 1944 (having the dubious distinction of being the only Allied vessel lost on D-Day), they illustrate the changes and continuities in the Royal Navy and war at sea across almost 250 years.
In each case the author considers the origin of the ship, the purpose for which it was designed and employed, its captains and where possible its crew, as well as the activities of the ship itself and its final fate; in addition background information of a general nature is included as a necessary context for those actions.

Sometimes a book lands on my desk that makes me curious as to what I might find when I start reading through the pages. 13 Sharks proved to be one of these interestesting finds. The premise behind the book is simple one and one that has been explored before, namely chart the history of all the ships that have borne a certain name, in this case the thirteen vessels that have served in the Royal Navy with the name Shark.

John D Grainger has done a remarkable job in collating all the available history on these, as he puts it, sometimes unremarkable vessels.

Warship World, November-December 2016

About John D Grainger

JOHN D GRAINGER is a former teacher and historian of great experience with a particular interest in Classical and Hellenistic Greek history. His many previous works include the following for Pen & Sword: Hellenistic and Roman Naval Wars (2011); The Wars of the Maccabees (2012); Roman Conquests: Egypt and Judaea (2013); a three-part history of the Seleukid Empire (2014-16), King’s and Kingship in the Hellenistic World 350-30 BC (2017), Antipater’s Dynasty (2018), Ancient Dynasties (2019, The Roman Imperial Succession (March 2020), The Straits from Troy to Constantinople (2021) and The Forty Sieges of Constantinople (2022). He lives in Evesham, Worcestershire.

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