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...Bodo: the Soviets declined help, obviously not eager to have foreigners, especially military men from a NATO country, clambering on their sub or plucking their sailors from the sea. Later in the day, Soviet officials revealed that an air seal in the cooling unit of one of the vessel's nuclear reactors had ruptured. By that time, the stricken sub, an Echo II-class vessel with a crew of about 90 and believed to be carrying eight nuclear missiles, had begun crawling eastward under auxiliary diesel power, escorted by a Soviet freighter...
...quick and masterful rescue operation helped avert catastrophe. Within hours, four Norwegian and two Soviet helicopters began plucking passengers and crewmen out of the boats and carrying them to safety aboard the Norwegian vessel Senja, which reached the accident site after plowing through ice up to 6 ft. thick...
Eventually the passengers, many still clad in pajamas, were taken to Spitsbergen, in Norway's polar Svalbard archipelago, and then flown back to West Germany. Emergency teams kept the Maxim Gorky from sinking by pumping water out of the vessel and plugging the gashes with cement brought out to them by a Russian freighter...
...fact considering that more than 300 shells and torpedoes were fired into the Bismarck by its Royal Navy attackers. Ballard says he does not plan to salvage the Bismarck. Last week he refused to provide the exact coordinates of the wreck's location, declaring that he wishes the sunken vessel to remain inviolate...
...guns with safer automatic loaders, battleships could be converted to cruise-missile platforms, reducing the number of crew members and retiring the old-fashioned bagged-powder firing system. Refitting the ships with 320 Tomahawk cruise missiles apiece, as the Navy once proposed, would cost more than $1 billion a vessel, an unlikely expenditure at a time of shrinking Pentagon budgets. But if the damage to the Iowa is beyond repair, the Navy may have no choice but to replace the burned- out turret with a cruise-missile loader -- or retire the old battlewagon once...