Emergency deep : Cold War missions of a submarine commander / Alfred Scott McLaren
- Author
- McLaren, Alfred Scott
- Additional Titles
- Cold War missions of a submarine commander
- Published
- Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2021]
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource : illustrations
Access Online
- Series
- Contents
- Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Prologue: Change of Command -- Part I. 1969 -- 1. Prospective Commanding Officers School, Washington, DC -- 2. Prospective Commanding Officer, USS Queenfish -- 3. Commanding Officer, USS Queenfish -- 4. The Pacific Northwest -- Part II. 1970 -- 5. First Cold War Mission -- 6. Initial Patrol Area -- 7. A Golf II-Class SSB -- 8. An Echo II SSGN and Other Submarines Encountered -- 9. Pearl Harbor to the Pacific Northwest -- 10. En Route to the Arctic Ocean -- 11. To the North Pole -- 12. Toward the Siberian Continental Shelf, 13. Severnaya Zemlya and the Laptev Sea -- 14. Across the Laptev Sea -- 15. North of the New Siberian Islands -- 16. The Malevolent East Siberian Sea -- 17. The Chukchi Sea -- 18. Nome and the Voyage Home -- 19. Pearl Harbor -- Part III. 1971 -- 20. Local Operations -- 21. A Cold War Mission and Preparations for WestPac -- 22. WestPac Deployment -- 23. The Big Event -- 24. Off Again! -- 25. Yokosuka, Japan -- 26. Our Third Cold War Mission -- 27. Zaliv Petra Velikogo -- 28. Yokosuka Again -- 29. Yankee Station, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Guam, and Home -- Part IV. The Hard Years, 1972 and 1973, and 30. Final Months in Command -- 31. The Operational Reactor Safeguards Examination -- 32. Genesis -- 33. Final Deployment to WestPac -- 34. Last Cold War Mission -- 35. Yokosuka and Hong Kong -- 36. Services to Seventh Fleet and Vietnam -- 37. Guam and Return to Pearl Harbor -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index
- Summary
- "Conveys in dramatic detail the high-risk and covert operations of a nuclear attack submarine during the zenith of the Cold War"--
- Subject(s)
- McLaren, Alfred Scott
- Queenfish (Submarine)
- United States. Navy—Submarine forces—Biography
- United States. Navy—Officers—Biography
- United States. Navy
- Submarine captains—United States—Biography
- Underwater exploration—Arctic Ocean
- Cold War—Biography
- Capitaines de sous-marin—États-Unis—Biographies
- Exploration sous-marine—Arctique, Océan
- Guerre froide—Biographies
- Armed Forces—Officers
- Armed Forces—Submarine forces
- Submarine captains
- Underwater exploration
- Arctic Ocean
- United States
- Cold War (1945-1989)
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780817393564 (electronic bk.)
0817393560 (electronic bk.)
9780817320928
081732092X - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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