The Polar Submarine and Navigation of the Arctic Ocean
Year: 1959 Language: english Author: US Navy Genre: History Format: PDF Quality: Unknown Pages count: 91 Description: The transpolar crossing of the Arctic Ocean by the USS NAUTILUS (SSN 571) during August 1958 demonstrated the capability of submarines to operate under the arctic ice pack. Consequently, the "SECRET" classification barrier which surrounded arctic submarine studies the past twelve years has disappeared. Furthermore, the summer and winter polar operations by the USS SKATE (SSN 578) have demonstrated the capability of the modern submarine to surface within the ice canopy at any time. The report, "The Polar Submarine and Navigation of the Arctic Ocean," was first issued November 1948. It is reprinted without cry changes (except for the inclusion of an addendum written in May 1950), because editing in 1959 would be applying hindsight and thus negate any lessons to be learned from comparison of i948 plans aoid programs with actual events that have followed. Parts of the report are of historical interest only; other parts are still pertinent to in-ice submarine operations.
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The Polar Submarine and Navigation of the Arctic Ocean
Language: english
Author: US Navy
Genre: History
Format: PDF
Quality: Unknown
Pages count: 91
Description: The transpolar crossing of the Arctic Ocean by the USS NAUTILUS (SSN 571) during
August 1958 demonstrated the capability of submarines to operate under the arctic ice
pack. Consequently, the "SECRET" classification barrier which surrounded arctic submarine
studies the past twelve years has disappeared. Furthermore, the summer and
winter polar operations by the USS SKATE (SSN 578) have demonstrated the capability
of the modern submarine to surface within the ice canopy at any time.
The report, "The Polar Submarine and Navigation of the Arctic Ocean," was first
issued November 1948. It is reprinted without cry changes (except for the inclusion of
an addendum written in May 1950), because editing in 1959 would be applying hindsight
and thus negate any lessons to be learned from comparison of i948 plans aoid
programs with actual events that have followed. Parts of the report are of historical
interest only; other parts are still pertinent to in-ice submarine operations.
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