Emergency Deep recounts the experiences of a nuclear attack submarine commanding officer in the U.S. Navy at the height of the Cold War. Captain Alfred (Fred) Scott McLaren, USN (Ret.) takes the reader on a journey that in a sense completes the narrative of his career in submarines. His previous effort, Silent and Unseen: On Patrol in Three Cold War Attack Submarines, told the story of his early experiences as a junior and mid-career officer. In this fascinating new memoir, McLaren focuses on his tour in command of the USS Queenfish (SSN 651), a ship he also served on as executive officer. Although Emergency Deep covers some of the same period and material as his first book, Unknown Waters: A Firsthand Account of the Historic Under-Ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish, McLaren seeks to place that voyage in the broader context of the Cold...
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Spring 2022
April 28 2022
Emergency Deep: Cold War Missions of a Submarine Commander
Emergency Deep: Cold War Missions of a Submarine Commander
Timothy J. Galpin
Timothy J. Galpin
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
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Timothy J. Galpin
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Online ISSN: 1531-3298
Print ISSN: 1520-3972
© 2022 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2022
President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Journal of Cold War Studies (2022) 24 (2): 162–164.
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Timothy J. Galpin; Emergency Deep: Cold War Missions of a Submarine Commander. Journal of Cold War Studies 2022; 24 (2): 162–164. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws_r_01080
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