Word: seawolf
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...legend of Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur. "Malory was wrong," says Novelist Treece flatly. He admits that his own hard-boiled debunking may be no less wrong, but Treece at least tunes his legend to the barbaric realities of 6th century Britain, with its Saxon seawolf marauders, its roving robber bands, its shattered relics of the Pax Romana, its poor riven land where man's hand was at his neighbor's pocket or throat...
...Seawolf, 330 ft. overall with only a 27-ft. beam, will cost about $53 million complete; it is slightly leaner, longer and more expensive than the Nautilus, the world's first atomic-powered submarine (TIME, Jan. 11, 1954). The drastic differences are inside: to further nuclear development, the Navy deliberately chose two distinct, competitive types of atomic reactors to power steam turbines aboard the two vessels. Unlike the water-cooled thermal reactor on the Nautilus, the Seawolf's high-speed reactor will be cooled by liquid sodium, will create more heat and energy and burn more nuclear fuel...
Within six months the reactor and more than 1,000,000 other necessary items will be installed aboard the Seawolf. Then the green-and-black sub will be taken on sea trials by her 100-man crew, skippered by young (37), Virginia-born Commander Richard B. Laning, a veteran of both carrier and submarine warfare in the Pacific. Like the Nautilus, the Seawolf should be able to speed at more than 25 knots under water, and to cruise thou sands of miles without refueling...
...will have eight nuclear-powered submarines in being or under construction, and in rapid succession thereafter, many others . . . Nuclear propulsion for larger naval ships, e.g., carriers, is well advanced." Next, he predicted atomic aircraft, and particularly "nuclear-powered seaplanes." Without ceremony or speeches, early in the morning of the Seawolf's launching, the same shipyard began the assembly of a third, smaller, improved atomic sub marine...
...Third Seawolf in U.S. submarine history. The first was lost at sea in 1920. The second torpedoed 18-odd Japanese ships during World War II, but was lost off the Admiralty Islands in 1944-probably, according to a later inquiry, depth-charged in error by the U.S. destroyer Rowell...