Emergency Deep : Cold War Missions of a Submarine Commander / Alfred Scott McLaren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McLaren, Alfred Scott, author.

Series:

Maritime currents.

Maritime Currents

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Submarine captains--United States--Biography.

Submarine captains.

Underwater exploration--Arctic Ocean.

Underwater exploration.

Cold War--Biography.

Cold War.

Queenfish (Submarine).

United States. Navy--Submarine forces--Biography.

United States.

United States. Navy--Officers--Biography.

McLaren, Alfred Scott.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2021]

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780817393564

0817393560

OCLC:

1250474816