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Surface at the Pole: The Extraordinary Voyages of the USS Skate

James Calvert

Independently published

2018

ISBN-13

978-1728775364

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Surface at the Pole: The Extraordinary Voyages of the USS Skate

Book about the nuclear-powered USS Skate adventure to become the first submarine to break the surface of the North Pole. Author James Calvert captained the Skate and his book details a series of exploratory underwater voyages north before he and his crew finally found a way to the top and triumphantly smashed through the polar ice-cap on 17 March 1959.

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