Foxtrots of the Indian Navy

by PR Franklin

Overview

Cmde. P.R. Franklin, AVSM, VSM (retd.) narrates some true accounts of the Soviet Foxtrot submarines that were in Indian Navy service. The names of the eight Foxtrots have been anagrammed to arrive at the name "Vanshali", which is the central submarine character of these narratives. The book covers a spectrum of the activities of Foxtrots in the service including facets of training in the USSR, taking possession, bringing them to India, wartime and peacetime activities, and finally beaching a Foxtrot for display as a museum. The book has interesting revelations of a brush with a nuclear submarine in the Arabian Sea and of an Indian submarine's predicament when confronted with the situation of meeting up with the American Carrier USS Enterprise when it entered the Bay of Bengal during 1971 Indo-Pak war.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940153485560
Publisher:	Frontier India
Publication date:	10/12/2016
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

A former naval officer, Commodore P R Franklin took to writing in retired life, after serving for 36years in the Indian Navy.

His first published works were short stories that found its way into the book titled “On All Fronts – Stories from the Armed Forces”, released in 2006. Then, in 2010, the National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi, published his next book titled “Submarine Operation”.

Moving on to semi-fiction, but still with a nautical theme, his third book titled “Foxtrots of the Indian Navy” was published in 2015. This is his fourth book, his first pure fiction effort, but one in which he cannot avoid a nautical theme, as in his previous ones.

While in the Indian Navy, Commodore P R Franklin specialized in Submarine and Anti-submarine warfare. He was awarded the Vishisht Seva Medal in 1995 and the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal in 2001 by the President of India.

He and his wife, Joya, reside in Bangalore. His e-mail id is: [e-mail]

A former naval officer, Commodore P R Franklin took to

writing in retired life, after serving for 36years in the Indian

Navy. His first published works were short stories that found

its way into the book titled “On All Fronts – Stories from the

Armed Forces”, released in 2006. Then, in 2010, the National

Maritime Foundation, New Delhi, published his next book

titled “Submarine Operation”. Moving on to semi-fiction, but

still with a nautical theme, his third book titled “Foxtrots of the

Indian Navy” was published in 2015. This is his fourth book,

his first pure fiction effort, but one in which he cannot avoid a

nautical theme, as in his previous ones.

While in the Indian Navy, Commodore P R Franklin specialized

in Submarine and Anti-submarine warfare. He was awarded the

Vishisht Seva Medal in 1995 and the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal

in 2001 by the President of India.

He and his wife, Joya, reside in Bangalore. His e-mail id is:

[e-mail]