Emergency Deep: Cold War Missions of a Submarine Commander

1. Auflage, 2021
ISBN: 978-0-8173-2092-8
Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Univ of Alabama

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Maritime Currents: History and Archaeology

Conveys in dramatic detail the high-risk and covert operations of a nuclear attack submarine during the zenith of the Cold War

Captain Alfred Scott McLaren served as Commander of the USS Queenfish (SSN 651) from September 1969 to May 1973-the very height of the Cold War. As commander, McLaren led at least six major clandestine operations, including the first-ever exploration of the entire Siberian Continental Shelf, a perilous voyage detailed in his previous book Unknown Waters.

Emergency Deep: Cold War Missions of a Submarine Commander conveys the entire spectrum of Captain McLaren's experiences commanding the USS Queenfish mainly in waters of the Russian Far East and also off Vietnam. This book is a riveting and deeply human story that illuminates the intensity and pressures of commanding a nuclear attack submarine in some of the most challenging circumstances imaginable.

McLaren focuses on operational matters, both great and small. Based on his own notes and records as well as discussions with former officers and shipmates, McLaren recounts his unique perspectives on attack-submarine tactics and exploratory techniques in high-risk or uncharted areas, matters of leadership and team-building and the morale of his crews, and the innumerable and often unforeseen ways his philosophy of command played out on a day-to-day basis, with consequences that ran the gamut from the mundane to the dire and life-threatening.

Readers are also treated to significant new information and insight on submarine strategy, tactics, and culture-details that illuminate and bring to life, with both great humor and gravitas, the intensity and pressures on those engaged in covert missions on nuclear attack submarines.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McLaren, Alfred Scott

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Prologue: Change of Command
- Part I. 1969
- Chapter 1. Prospective Commanding Officers School, Washington, DC
- Chapter 2. Prospective Commanding Officer, USS Queenfish
- Chapter 3. Commanding Officer, USS Queenfish
- Chapter 4. The Pacific Northwest
- Part II. 1970
- Chapter 5. First Cold War Mission
- Chapter 6. Initial Patrol Area
- Chapter 7. A Golf II-Class SSB
- Chapter 8. An Echo II SSGN and Other Submarines Encountered
- Chapter 9. Pearl Harbor to the Pacific Northwest
- Chapter 10. En Route to the Arctic Ocean
- Chapter 11. To the North Pole
- Chapter 12. Toward the Siberian Continental Shelf
- Chapter 13. Severnaya Zemlya and the Laptev Sea
- Chapter 14. Across the Laptev Sea
- Chapter 15. North of the New Siberian Islands
- Chapter 16. The Malevolent East Siberian Sea
- Chapter 17. The Chukchi Sea
- Chapter 18. Nome and the Voyage Home
- Chapter 19. Pearl Harbor
- Part III. 1971
- Chapter 20. Local Operations
- Chapter 21. A Cold War Mission and Preparations for WestPac
- Chapter 22. WestPac Deployment
- Chapter 23. The Big Event
- Chapter 24. Off Again!
- Chapter 25. Yokosuka, Japan
- Chapter 26. Our Third Cold War Mission
- Chapter 27. Zaliv Petra Velikogo
- Chapter 28. Yokosuka Again
- Chapter 29. Yankee Station, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Guam, and Home
- Part IV. The Hard Years, 1972 and 1973
- Chapter 30. Final Months in Command
- Chapter 31. The Operational Reactor Safeguards Examination
- Chapter 32. Genesis
- Chapter 33. Final Deployment to WestPac
- Chapter 34. Last Cold War Mission
- Chapter 35. Yokosuka and Hong Kong
- Chapter 36. Services to Seventh Fleet and Vietnam
- Chapter 37. Guam and Return to Pearl Harbor
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alfred Scott McLaren, Ph.D. and retired US Navy Captain, is recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal and two Legions of Merit, president emeritus of The Explorers Club, former senior pilot of the SAS Super Aviator submersible, and president emeritus of The American Polar Society. He is author of Unknown Waters: A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651) and Silent and Unseen: On Patrol in Three Cold War Attack Submarines.