The   Soviet Union is clearly  the most  active submarine producing nation in the world. It is building new submarines at a rate more than twice…

Although Royal Navy submarines have many similarities in operational performance and achievement with U.S. Navy submarines, the composition and structure of their ships company, and…

For many years, a submariner’s principal interest in the deep seafloor environment was for its convenience as a repository for sunken ships. Seafloors, in general,…

At a  little past two  on a hot, humid, hazy Saturday in Groton, the growing activity interrupts the weekend stillness. A DC-9 flies overhead and…

In late May 1984 the following news clip appeared: “The PATRICK HENRY, the second submarine in the Polaris fleet, will be decommissioned today and placed…

The following  article retraces the conventional wisdom about the “submarine torpedo-boat” that prevailed 70 years ago. It tells of the shock that the craft caused…

There has been a consistent failure in the past to recognize the actual potential of the submarine. When it has been used in war the…

For many years it was the good fortune of the U.S. to possess a strategic deterrent capability whose competence could be assured well into the…