On 1 June 1939 His Majesty's Submarine Thetis sank in Liverpool Bay
while on her diving trials. Her loss is still the worst peacetime
submarine disaster the Royal Navy has yet faced when ninety-nine
men drowned or slowly suffocated during their last fifty hours of
life. The disaster became an international media event, mainly
because the trapped souls aboard were so near to being saved after
they managed to raise her stern about 18ft above sea level. Still
the Royal Navy-led rescue operation failed to find the submarine
for many hours, only to rescue four of all those trapped. Very
little is known about what actually happened, as the only
comprehensive book written on the subject was published in 1958.
Many years have now passed since the Thetis and her men died, for
which no one was held to be ultimately accountable. However, a
great deal of unpublished information has come to light in archives
throughout the United Kingdom and beyond. After four years of
painstaking research Thetis; The Slow Death of a Submarine explores
in minute detail a more rounded picture of what really happened
before, during and after her tragic loss. In doing so Tony Booth's
book also takes a fresh look at culpability and explores some of
the alleged conspiracy theories that surrounded her demise. The
result is the first definitive account what happened to HMS Thetis
- and her men - a fitting tribute, as the seventieth anniversary of
her loss will be on 1 June 2009.
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