"Damned Un-English Sailors" is a social history charting the first half-century of the development of the Royal Navy Submarine Service. With much information taken from previously unpublished sources, it portrays their lives ashore and afloat in war and in peace. From the selection and training of its officers and men - for decades a largely extemporized affair - to daily life aboard His Majesties Submarines between 1901 and 1945, "Damned Un-English Sailors" sheds light on this often-overlooked aspect of British naval history.