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- Title
Vindicating the USS Swordfish.
- Authors
Streifer, Bill; Sabitov, Irek
- Abstract
In response to the North Korean seizure of the U.S. spy ship Pueblo, an armada of ships and subs were sent into the Sea of Japan, including the USS Swordfish, a nuclear-powered submarine. Unfortunately, while conducting a covert surveillance operation off the coast of Vladivostok, Swordfish's mast struck a block of ice. So she departed the area for the U.S. Naval Base at Yokosuka, Japan for repairs. When tthe Russians saw a photo of the damaged Swordfish in a Japanese newspaper, they (wrongly) assumed the damage resulted from a collision with their nuclear-armed submarine K-129.
- Subjects
SHIPS; SUBMARINES (Ships); NUCLEAR submarines; UNDERWATER surveillance; INTERNATIONAL relations
- Publication
Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia, 2019, Issue 32, p43
- ISSN
0860-6102
- Publication type
Article