5 Military Sea Transportation
Ryan Gormley
5.1 Introduction
Keywords
- Ship – a vessel larger than a boat for transporting people or goods by sea
- Submarine – a warship with a streamlined hull designed to operate completely submerged in the sea for long periods, equipped with a periscope and typically armed with torpedoes or missiles
- Steam engine – an engine that uses the expansion or rapid condensation of steam to generate power
- Industrial Revolution – the process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing
- World War I – massive military conflict involving many different countries
- World War II – massive military conflict fought between the Axis powers and the Allies
- Spanish Armada – large fleet of warships owned by the Spanish
- Blockade – an act of means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving
- U-Boat – a German submarine used in World War I and World War II
- Warship – a ship equipped with weapons and designed to take part in warfare at sea
- Aircraft carriers – a large warship equipped to serve as a base for aircraft that can take off from and land on its deck
- Destroyers – a small, fast warship, especially one equipped for a defensive role against submarines and aircraft
- Island hopping – travel from one island to another, especially as a tourist in an area of small islands
Learning Objectives
By the end of this chapter, students should be able to:
- Know the importance of sea transportation.
- Understand the role that ships and submarines have played in the history of the world.
- Learn how ships and submarines have affected some of history’s most impactful wars.
- Have learned some of the major technological advancements in the shipping and submarine industry.
- Have learned a basic understanding of how ships and submarines work for military use in the past
- Learned why it is important to understand these concepts
- Learned where these industries are right now and what they will be in the future
Transportation has long been a key to human civilization. The ability to transport ourselves or anything else has always been a key to our ability to survive and thrive. Humans for generations have used different forms of transportation throughout the centuries to propel our ability to better transport ourselves from one place to another. As the goal has become apparent to do this as safely and as quickly as possible the need for new and different forms of transportation technology has become apparent. That is why today there are many different styles of transportation across the world. These include a multitude of different forms of transportation for land, sea, space and air. This chapter though will focus on the main types of transportation that are used for sea transportation.
Ships and Submarines are two of the most commonly used styles of transportation for sea travel. Ships have been used now for centuries for transportation as they