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Author McLaren, Alfred Scott, author.

Title Emergency deep : Cold War missions of a submarine commander / Alfred Scott McLaren.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations.
text file
Series Maritime currents : history and archaeology
Maritime currents.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
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"-- Provided by publisher
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Subject McLaren, Alfred Scott.
McLaren, Alfred Scott.
Queenfish (Submarine)
Queenfish (Submarine)
United States. Navy -- Submarine forces -- Biography.
United States. Navy.
Submarine forces.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject United States. Navy -- Officers -- Biography.
Submarine captains -- United States -- Biography.
Submarine captains.
United States.
Underwater exploration -- Arctic Ocean.
Underwater exploration.
Arctic Ocean.
Cold War -- Biography.
Cold War (1945-1989)
Armed Forces -- Officers.
Armed Forces -- Submarine forces.
Genre/Form Autobiography.
Biography.
Electronic books.
e-books.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Added Title Cold War missions of a submarine commander
Other Form: Print version: McLaren, Alfred Scott. Emergency deep. Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2021] 9780817320928 (DLC) 2020043229 (OCoLC)1224043851
ISBN 9780817393564 (electronic book)
0817393560 (electronic book)
9780817320928
081732092X