Word: seawolf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wish to thank TIME [June 15] for the fine article on the submarine George Washington. However, we would like to point out that the atomic submarines George Washington, Triton, U.S.S. Skate, U.S.S. Skipjack, U.S.S. Seawolf and U.S.S. Nautilus, all built in Groton, were built by the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp...
Says Father Laboon, who is soon to be joined by a Protestant chaplain: "The 60-day patrol of the atomic sub Seawolf," he explains, "indicated a need for religious coverage. We have crews away from port for extended periods, weeks on end of living with an atomic reactor, and soon, ballistic missiles as well. These patrols are almost the equivalent of war, in the minds of all who are involved in them, and morale must be kept high...
...Collaborator Gerold Frank have begun their daily attack on the intricate task of translating Zsa Zsa onto the pages of a book. Ex-Newsman Frank (New York Journal-American) comes to the task with impressive qualifications. A veteran ghostwriter for wartime marines and submariners (Out in the Boondocks, U.S.S. Seawolf), longtime freelancer and magazine editor (Coronet), he now makes literary collaboration with show-business characters his well-paying specialty. After nearly 5,000 hours of listening, he in effect wrote Lillian Roth's I'll Cry Tomorrow, Diana Barrymore's Too Much, Too Soon and Sheilah Graham...
...comes up Monday noon, the Seawolf will have been below the Atlantic Ocean's surface for exactly 60 days. The submarine sailed on Aug. 5, went down two days later to begin what the Navy then described only as a "routine environmental test...
Tuesday, the Navy radioed the Seawolf some questions. Cmdr. Richard B. Laning, the skipper, replied: At 10:45 a.m., EST, the Seawolf had been submerged continuously, "without any contact with the earth's atmosphere, for 54 days...