What a great day! Today we celebrate the inactivation of USS FINBACK. I really mean celebrate. This is not a funeral. A celebration. Some people…
I pay special tribute to Mike McQuown, the commissioning Engineer Officer whose enormous energy and dynamic capability was an inspiration to all who served on…
Lieutenant Thompson has reopened issues hotly debated in the ’60s and ’70s. Most of the argument he raises were discussed and some of the changes…
Lieutenant Joseph M. Thompson’s article entitled SUB-SCOL 2000: A Multi-Tiered Approach to Traning for the Next Century raises some interesting issues regarding how we should…
“Call It a quality of life. Call it a matter of readlness. But do not fall to call it the first principle of war fighting.…
A Mk 14 DEPTH PROBLEM I just finished reading Frederick J. Milford’s excellent wrap-up article about torpedoes, entitled The Great Torpedo Scandal. 1941-1943 in the…
Probably every history of World War II U.S. submarine operations highlights the story of the fatefully crossed paths of USS SCULPIN (SS 191) and USS…
A Submarine Story By Captain Arthur Clark Bivens, USN(Ret.) Gateway Press, Inc. 1001 calvert Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 1996 In relating his experiences in the…
I developed the following mental conversion methods while attending Submarine Officer Basic Course. They seem so simple-minded, someone must have already developed them. If not…
The Collins class, the world’s biggest most advanced conventional submarine-the Swedish Kockums Type 471 adapted for operation in the warm, tropical waters of Australia’s north-is…
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