Silent and Unseen: On Patrol in Three Cold War Attack Submarines

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Автор: Alfred Scott McLaren

Название: Silent and Unseen: On Patrol in Three Cold War Attack Submarines

Издательство: Naval Institute Press

ISBN: 1612518451

Год: 2015

Формат: PDF (conv)

Размер: 6,4 МБ

Язык: Английский

Количество страниц: 256

Описание: "Silent and Unseen" is a memoir of a submariner's life on a U.S. attack submarine during the Cold War by Capt. Alfred S. McLaren, an experienced submarine officer and nuclear attack submarine commander. He describes in riveting detail the significant events that occurred early in the Cold War during his seven years, 1958-65, on board three attack submarines: the USS "Greenfish" (SS 351), USS "Seadragon" (SSN 584), and USS "Skipjack" (SSN 585). He took part in the first submerged transit of the Northwest Passage, a Baffin Bay expedition, and, as commander of USS "Queenfish" (SSN 651), a North Pole expedition that completed the first survey of the entire Siberian Continental Shelf. McLaren's stories and anecdotes offer a look at the development of attack-boat tactics and under-ice exploration techniques. During the early high-risk years of the Cold War, submarines were continually at sea, and each reconnaissance and intelligence-collection mission was of potentially great value to the United States. The missions often required zeroing in on the potential enemy to collect the intelligence desired, generally within weapons range. Unlike a war patrol, the U.S. attack boat had to remain undetected, and then withdraw as silently and unseen as it's original approach. "Greenfish" was one of the most successful Pacific diesel submarines when McLaren served aboard her as a watch and weapons officer. He then served as watch officer on the "Seadragon" when she became the first nuclear submarine to transit from the Atlantic to the Pacific via the Arctic Ocean. En route, she examined the underside of icebergs, conducted the first underwater survey and passage through the Northwest Passage, and surfaced at the North Pole. McLaren concludes by recounting his experiences on board what was then the world's fastest and most advanced submarine, USS "Skipjack" (SSN 585) during the Cuban Missile Crisis, two Cold War missions, and the very intensive and exciting period of new tactical and weapons development which followed to counter a rapidly emerging Soviet nuclear submarine threat.

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