Spies and Saboteurs: German Covert Operations against Portsmouth Dockyard
Philip MacDougall
- Region:
- South East
- Notice Period:
- Emergency (maybe less than one week's notice)
- Type:
- Semi-professional
- Fee:
- Paid: 65
- Category:
- History
- Updated:
- 25th March 2019
- Tagged:
- 1910's
A talk on attempts by a newly formed specialist naval branch of the Kaiser’s secret service to prise information on naval developments in Britain in the years prior to World War One, concentrating on Portsmouth and those individuals, working either in the dockyard or the navy, who provided details of their secret work. The methods used by the German naval branch, Nachrichtenabteilung, or more simply ‘N’, will also be considered.
Views: 1085 | Enquiries: 1About Philip MacDougall
Philip MacDougall is a much-published local historian who has written several books on subjects relating to the south of England with books published on Chichester, the Medway Towns, and Portsmouth. His more specialised interest is naval dockyards and navies of the 18th century. Among his most recent books are detailed studies of the former royal dockyards of Portsmouth and Chatham with other books on the Russian and Ottoman navies. His current fee for a standard talk is £80 plus travel.
Other Talks on SpeakerNet by Philip MacDougall
- A Saxon Naval Base in Chichester Harbour
- Chatham Dockyard: The Rise and Fall of a Military Industrial Complex
- If War Should Come: Defence Preparations on the South Coast, 1935-1939
- London and the Georgian Navy
- Murders and Misdemeanours in Chichester
- A Factory at War (Chichester)
- Portsmouth Dockyard – Once the Largest Dockyard in the World
- Spies and Saboteurs: German Covert Operations in the Medway Towns
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