This article describes two cases where prisoners of war captured in the 1914–17 Black Sea naval conflict were interrogated. In the first case a captured Russian naval officer witnessed an operationally significant event after his interrogation, and covertly reported this via a coded letter. The second case, of an Armenian engineer, reflected a wider Russian practice of capturing and debriefing ‘Ottoman’ sailors. The article sets both cases in the wider context of Russia’s naval campaign against the Ottoman coal trade.


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    Title :

    Naval Interrogations of PoWs in the Black Sea War, 1914 and 1916


    Contributors:
    Ewin, Toby (author)

    Published in:

    The Mariner's Mirror ; 108 , 3 ; 337-357


    Publication date :

    2022-07-03


    Size :

    21 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown