Alfred Scott McLaren, PhD and retired US Navy Captain, is recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal and two Legions of Merit, president emeritus of the Explorers Club, former senior pilot of the SAS Super Aviator submersible, and president emeritus of the American Polar Society. He is author of Unknown Waters: A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-Ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651) and Silent and Unseen: On Patrol in Three Cold War Attack Submarines.

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List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Preface
Prologue: Change of Command
Part I. 1969
Chapter 1. Prospective Commanding Officers School, Washington, DC
Chapter 2. Prospective Commanding Officer, USS Queenfish
Chapter 3. Commanding Officer, USS Queenfish
Chapter 4. The Pacific Northwest
Part II. 1970
Chapter 5. First Cold War Mission
Chapter 6. Initial Patrol Area
Chapter 7. A Golf II-Class SSB
Chapter 8. An Echo II SSGN and Other Submarines Encountered
Chapter 9. Pearl Harbor to the Pacific Northwest
Chapter 10. En Route to the Arctic Ocean
Chapter 11. To the North Pole
Chapter 12. Toward the Siberian Continental Shelf
Chapter 13. Severnaya Zemlya and the Laptev Sea
Chapter 14. Across the Laptev Sea
Chapter 15. North of the New Siberian Islands
Chapter 16. The Malevolent East Siberian Sea
Chapter 17. The Chukchi Sea
Chapter 18. Nome and the Voyage Home
Chapter 19. Pearl Harbor
Part III. 1971
Chapter 20. Local Operations
Chapter 21. A Cold War Mission and Preparations for WestPac
Chapter 22. WestPac Deployment
Chapter 23. The Big Event
Chapter 24. Off Again!
Chapter 25. Yokosuka, Japan
Chapter 26. Our Third Cold War Mission
Chapter 27. Zaliv Petra Velikogo
Chapter 28. Yokosuka Again
Chapter 29. Yankee Station, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Guam, and Home
Part IV. The Hard Years, 1972 and 1973
Chapter 30. Final Months in Command
Chapter 31. The Operational Reactor Safeguards Examination
Chapter 32. Genesis
Chapter 33. Final Deployment to WestPac
Chapter 34. Last Cold War Mission
Chapter 35. Yokosuka and Hong Kong
Chapter 36. Services to Seventh Fleet and Vietnam
Chapter 37. Guam and Return to Pearl Harbor
Epilogue
Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index

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