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The views expressed on this podcast are those of the participants, not of Reuters News. The battleship admirals who came from a tradition of these massive surface vessels with powerful guns.

In general they hated some mariners because here they were in their impudent little boats with these very cheap weapons called torpedoes and they

could sneak around under the water and could actually do them great harm. You're listening to Reuters War College, a discussion of the world in conflict, focusing on the stories behind the front lines. Hello, welcome to War College. I'm your host Matthew Galt and with us today is

Ian Ballantyne, a former journalist and a current naval historian. He covered

conflict in the 90s and currently edits Warships magazine

and has spent more time on more warships than anyone else that I know. He's here today to walk us

through the history of the world's stealthiest naval vessels, the submarine.

Ian, thank you so much for joining us.

That's my pleasure.

All right, so you just finished writing a book about submarines and you called it the deadly trade. Why that title?

Well there's a famous poem by Rudyard Kipling written about a century ago about the trade of Samariners and it makes reference to the deadly

trade and calls it one-eyed death and it's famous in the Royal Navy Submarine

Service as a piece of work and they do call their

pursuit the trade in the raw Navy. So that's where that kind of comes from and I

added the deadly bit because I wanted to convey the fact

that it's lethal not only to the people they stalk and attack but also to themselves

really to some

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