Ebook: Silent and unseen : on patrol in three Cold War attack submarines
Author: McLaren Alfred Scott
- Tags: McLaren Alfred Scott., United States. -- Navy -- Submarine forces -- Biography., United States. -- Navy -- Officers -- Biography., Submariners -- United States -- Biography., Submarines (Ships) -- United States -- History -- 20th century., Seadragon (Submarine : SSN-584), Skipjack (Submarine : SSN-585), Greenfish (Submarine : SS-351), United States -- History Naval -- 20th century., Cold War -- Biography., HISTORY / Military / Naval., HISTORY / Military / United States.
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Naval Institute Press
- City: United States
- Language: English
- epub
"Silent and Unseen is a memoir of a submariner's life on a U.S. attack submarine during the Cold War by Capt. Alfred S. McLaren, an experienced submarine officer and nuclear attack submarine commander. He describes in riveting detail the significant events that occurred early in the Cold War during his seven years, 1958-1965, on board three attack submarines: the USS Greenfish (SS 351), USS Seadragon (SSN 584), and Read more...
Abstract: "Silent and Unseen is a memoir of a submariner's life on a U.S. attack submarine during the Cold War by Capt. Alfred S. McLaren, an experienced submarine officer and nuclear attack submarine commander. He describes in riveting detail the significant events that occurred early in the Cold War during his seven years, 1958-1965, on board three attack submarines: the USS Greenfish (SS 351), USS Seadragon (SSN 584), and USS Skipjack (SSN 585). He took part in the first submerged transit of the Northwest Passage, a Baffin Bay expedition, and, as commander of USS Queenfish (SSN-651), a North Pole expedition that completed the first survey of the entire Siberian Continental Shelf"