Table of Contents
List of Photos and Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Part I USS Greenfish (SS 351): Workhorse of the Pacific
Chapter 1 Early History and Post-World War II Modifications 7
Chapter 2 On Board USS Greenfish 12
Chapter 3 Our First Deployment: Western Pacific 1958 23
Chapter 4 Coming into Yokosuka 39
Chapter 5 Off the Soviet Far East Coast 47
Chapter 6 Homeward to Pearl Harbor 53
Part II USS Seadragon (SSN 584): Arctic Pioneer
Chapter 7 My First Nuclear Submarine 65
Chapter 8 Into Davis Strait and Baffin Bay 78
Chapter 9 Through the Northwest Passage 88
Chapter 10 Surfacing at the Pole 98
Chapter 11 The Bering Strait and Nome 109
Chapter 12 Pearl Harbor at Last 114
Chapter 13 A New Commanding Officer 121
Part III USS Skipjack (SSN 585): Root of the New Sea Power
Chapter 14 First Months on Board 141
Chapter 15 In the Mediterranean 154
Chapter 16 Home Port in New London 167
Chapter 17 Evaluation of the Nuclear Attack Submarine 182
Chapter 18 A Year to Remember 189
Chapter 19 One More Cold War Mission and a Change of Command 198
Chapter 20 England and Then Home 209
Epilogue 217
Notes 221
Index 231