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"The war at sea" [2019] ELECD 2394; in Forrest, Craig (ed), "Maritime Legacies and the Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 6

Book Title: Maritime Legacies and the Law

Editor(s): Forrest, Craig

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 1

Section Title: The war at sea

Number of pages: 42

Abstract/Description:

This chapter seeks to illustrate the stock of wrecked vessels, aircraft and objects that comprises the sunken legacy of WWI by setting the losses in their historical context. The chapter does not attempt a history of the war at sea but does focus on the historical contexts that affect the way in which various legacy wrecks are viewed and the values that they embody. The chapter introduces the combatant States; the geographical extent of the naval engagements; the nature of the battling fleets; the involvement of the merchant fleet; and the rate and extent of losses, particularly human losses.