Contents
3. Research Aim and Chapter Structure xxx
The Axis and Allied maritime strategies off the southern African coast, 1939-1945
1.1 Naval warfare theory and the constructs of maritime strategy 1
1.2 Rival maritime strategies off the South African coast – a question of shipping? 3
1.3 South Africa, the Allied war effort and the wartime shipping problem 9
1.4 The control, victualling and repair of Allied shipping in South Africa 30
The development of the South African coastal defence system, 1933-1945
2.1 Interwar rationalisation, Imperial defence and the South African Naval Service 44
2.2 Naval ambition, Anglo-South African relations, and the Seaward Defence Force 52
2.3 The development of a comprehensive South African coastal defence system 57
Axis raiders, mines and submarines off the South African coast, 1939-1945
3.1 Raiders, mines and opportunistic attacks 81
3.2 The Japanese submarine offensive in the Mozambique Channel 91
3.3 The U-boat offensives off the South African coast 100
Chapter 4
The maritime intelligence war in southern Africa, 1939-1945
4.1 Sabotage, subversion and initial South African contact with Germany 124
4.2 The Trompke Network, the FELIX Organisation and maritime intelligence 134
4.3 South Africa, British naval intelligence and c/intelligence during the war 141
Chapter 5
The anti-submarine war off southern Africa, 1942-1944
5.1 Lacklustre attitudes, the start of the U-boat offensives and a chance sinking 164
5.2 Defensive measures, lessons learned and an operational success 176
5.3 Reduced sinkings, combined operations and the culmination of the naval war 194
Conclusion 204
Sources 210