Word: sargo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part of the Gulf of California, has 2,300 dues-paying members, and a 2,600-ft. landing strip, from which visitors may transform themselves into sea dogs and start trolling within minutes of arrival for such specialized game fish as corvina (which go to 20 Ibs.) and sargo. Since Salton Sea is 234 ft. below sea level, speed enthusiasts also like to test the theory that engines run better and boats go faster because the air is denser there...
...hovering helicopters dumped bright flowers on the dented and travel-worn U.S. nuclear submarine Sargo last week as it churned back to its Pearl Harbor home base after a 6,000-mile round trip to the North Pole. When Sargo's boyish skipper, Lieut. Commander John H. Nicholson, 35, told his tale, it was clear that the warm welcome was hard earned by cold courage...
Early on the morning of Feb. 9, Sargo's sophisticated SINS (for Ship's Inertial Navigation System) picked out the Pole. Up poked the sub's massive sail, i.e., superstructure, lifting with it a three-foot layer of ice. Crewmen axed through the ice, climbed down a ladder, found by celestial navigation check that they had scored a bull's-eye-the Pole was only 25 yards away. Electronics Technician Second Class Harold ("Pineapple") Meyer marched to the Pole, planted a candy-striped pole on the spot, and hoisted the state flag of Hawaii. While other...
Taking risks paid dividends. Sargo's disciplined crew proved, among other things, that 1) the subs' guidance systems can be rated at pinpoint accuracy, 2) U.S. subs can travel submerged through the ice-locked Bering Straits in midwinter, 3) they can reach the top of the world from east or west at any time of year, and 4) that there are many more surfacing areas than previously suspected. All of this was glad news to scientists-and to future skippers of the U.S. Navy's Polaris-firing nuclear submarine fleet...
...Proving that U.S. submarines can sail at any time of year to the top of the world, within easy Polaris range of Russia, the nuclear sub Sargo slipped hundreds of miles under the fierce Arctic ice pack to the North Pole. The fourth U.S. submarine voyage to the Pole, it was the first made in the dead of winter. Sargo chose the tougher western route (more than 4,200 nautical miles from Hawaii through the Bering Strait to the Pole), bucked the worst ice of the year (average thickness: 6 ft.), sailed under the pack for almost 15 days, surfaced...