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Testifying in court, the Admiralty's underwater warfare chief, Captain George Osborn Symonds, said that the work of the spy ring could have been "of highest value to a potential enemy." But British counter-intelligence had learned of a security leak at the Underwater Experimental Station last July, had had the ring under surveillance ever since. Implication was that most of the valuable information had been intercepted before it could be delivered...
...Have you plenty of cigars, Jim?" asked Rear Admiral Kenmore McManes, commandant of the Sixth Naval District. Replied Commander James B. Osborn, between puffs on his stogie: "I've got 15 boxes. Admiral.'' Moments later, as a Navy band whomped up a rousing Sousa march on a closely guarded pier at the Charleston (S.C.) Navy Yard dock. Osborn, 42, stepped aboard the nuclear Polaris submarine George Washington, in whose vast holds huge quantities of provisions-from missile-shaped cigars to cigar-shaped missiles-had been stored. Then Skipper Osborn bellowed a time-honored order: "Cast...
Hidden from enemy eyes, safe from enemy attack, her nuclear-tipped priority cargo of 16 Polaris missiles constantly at the ready, George Washington was bound on history's first underwater missile patrol. Skipper Osborn's orders were secret, but best guesses were that he would take station beneath the subarctic waters of the Norwegian and Barents seas. Cruising within 1,200-mile range of Soviet targets from Moscow to Omsk (see map), George Washington will be joined by her sister ship, Patrick Henry, within two months. With their total of 32 missiles, the two ships will of themselves...
Former crew manager Francis T. Baldwin '24, presently with Batten, Barton, Durstine, & Osborn, wrote "Managerial training has been invaluable to me in my work of handling advertising accounts and all the diverse extra activities involved. . . Being a varsity manager was one of the most valuable experiences I had in college. It has contributed a great deal to many of my activities since. . . In the four years with the Crew, I learned: first, to get along with all kinds of guys; second, to plan in a reasonably orderly fashion; and third, to react with some sense, I trust, as emergencies upset...
...became the most complex vehicles ever built for the sea. And by the time George Washington was ready for launching last December (just as the PERT charts predicted), the men who had been chosen to manage her fantastic hardware were as impressive as the ship herself. Commander James Butler Osborn, the crewcut, square-jawed skipper who looks like a football player, talks like a Marine drill sergeant and thinks like a well-trained engineer, seemed almost in love with his exquisite command. "This ship," he insisted, "is not a problem in physics; it's an article...