Comments of Rear-Admiral Plüddemann, German Navy, on the main features of the War with Spain.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Plüddemann, M. (Max), 1846-1910, author.

Contributor:

Clover, Richardson.

United States. Office of Naval Intelligence, issuing body.

Series:

Information from abroad

War Notes ; II.

Office of Naval Intelligence. War notes ; no. II.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Spanish-American War, 1898--Naval operations.

Spanish-American War, 1898.

Spain--History, Naval.

Spain.

United States--History, Naval--To 1900.

United States.

Military operations, Naval.

Genre:

Naval history.

Physical Description:

18 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : United States Government Printing Office, 1899.

Summary:

This able analysis of the main features of the Spanish-American war by M. Plüddemann, Rear-Admiral, German navy, presents in a comprehensive form many of the technical deductions of the late war. He comments on the high quality and endurance of our navy ordnance and on the defective results from the navy fuse now in use. As regards the question of the importance of the Navy controlling the transport service, his reference to the landing of the army at Daiquiri is instructive. Referring to the want of control and discipline on board the merchant steamers chartered as transports for service under the Quartermaster's Department of the Army--that control and discipline at sea which foreign military authorities have long since by experience recognized can only be obtained through the navy--he states: Under these circumstances it is not strange that the landing of the provisions, guns, and ammunition, and the entire equipment, all of which were so much needed in this locality, which offered no resources, was effected with such slowness that the troops were reduced from the outset to the meager rations which each man carried with him. Richardson Clover, Chief Intelligence Officer. December 21, 1898.

Contents:

Bound with: War notes no. I: Battles and capitulation of Santiago De Cuba (completed)

Comments of Rear Adm. Plüddemann, German Navy, on the main features of the War with Spain

War notes no. III-IV: Sketches from the Spanish-American War

War notes no. V: Effect of the gun fire of the United States vessels in the Battle of Manila Bay

War notes no. VI: The Spanish-American War, blockades and coast defense

War notes no. VII: The Spanish-American War; a collection of documents relative to the squadron operations in the West Indies

War notes no. VIII: The squadron of Admiral Cevera

Views of Admiral Cevera regarding the Spanish navy in the late war.

Notes:

Translated from the Marine-Rundschau, November, 1898.

"December, 1898."

OCLC:

5343807

Publisher Number:

D07034101X

Bound With:

Bound with: Battles and capitulation of Santiago de Cuba -- Sketches from the Spanish-American War -- Effect of the gun fire of the United States vessels in the Battle of Manila Bay (May 1, 1898) -- The Spanish-American war : blockades and coast defense -- The Spanish-American war : a collection of documents relative to the squadron operations in the West Indies -- The squadron of Admiral Cervera.