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Three Knots to Nowhere A Cold War Submariner on the Undersea Frontline.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Jefferson : McFarland and Company, Incorporated, Publishers, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resource (223 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781476614045
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • V63 .T474 2014
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Contents:
Subject: Three Knots to Nowhere: A Cold War Submariner on the Undersea Frontline follows the author's experiences in the United States Navy from 1966 through 1972. They include a personal background, boot camp, electricians school, the U.S. Naval Nuclear Program, assignment to the USS Henry Clay during an overhaul in Charleston, S.C., subsequent transit to Hawaii, and deterrent patrols out of Guam. The work begins with the crew of one of the most powerful weapons on earth, the fleet ballistic missile submarine, USS Henry Clay, manning Battle Station Missile. What follows is a fresh perspective on the s.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; 1. Battle Stations; 2. Troubled Times; 3. Odyssey; 4. Admiral Rickover's Nuclear Power School; 5. Submarine School-The Final Preparation; 6. Reporting to the USS Henry Clay; 7. Inside the Henry Clay; 8. The Forbidden Zone: The Engineering Spaces; 9. Test Depth; 10. Transit to Hawaii; 11. The Eve of My First Patrol; 12. Getting Underway; 13. Christmas on Patrol; 14. Dolphins and Patrol Pins; 15. R and R in Hawaii; 16. The Escape Tower; 17. Change of Command-The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; 18. Surprise Package from the Blue Crew

19. Typhoon20. Farewell to the Henry Clay; 21. Flight Back to Hawaii; 22. Ford Island; 23. The Circle Begins; Index

Three Knots to Nowhere: A Cold War Submariner on the Undersea Frontline follows the author's experiences in the United States Navy from 1966 through 1972. They include a personal background, boot camp, electricians school, the U.S. Naval Nuclear Program, assignment to the USS Henry Clay during an overhaul in Charleston, S.C., subsequent transit to Hawaii, and deterrent patrols out of Guam. The work begins with the crew of one of the most powerful weapons on earth, the fleet ballistic missile submarine, USS Henry Clay, manning Battle Station Missile. What follows is a fresh perspective on the s.

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