Polar Trip Secrecy Maintained
By Crewmen of Nautilus
By FRANK CAREY
Associated Pres Science Writer
GROTON, Conn., UB — “Cloak
and dagger methods were used
to keep the.crew of the Nautilus
from prematurely learning they
were headed for the North Pole.”
This was related Wednesday
night by the atomic submarine’s
executive officer, Lt. Cmdr.
Frank Adams.
But he also told how the crew,
once informed, more than lived up
to the submariners’ name of “si
lent service” by keeping mum
during the 3%-week stay at
Pearl Harbor.
This was after an initial ven
ture out of Seattle towards the
pole had confirmed previous es
timates that it might be “a • little
too early” in the season to get
under the ice — and the sub was
ordered to Honolalu to bide its
time.
Adams told about it in a talk
to the first International Sympo
sium on Submarine and Space
Medicine at the U. S. Naval Sub
marine Base here.
Adams said the idea of a sub
polar venture was first mentioned
to the Nautilus’ skipper last Jan
uary and he indicated that only a
few officials were in on the secret.
Adams said the Nautilus sailed
late in April “supposedly for a
West Coast cruise.” Meanwhile,
various cold weather equipment,
including anti-freeze had been se
cretly stowed aboard, lest the
crew catch on.
Then, in Seattle, on June 8,
several technical experts were
“smuggled aboard” — including
two ice experts. Officers were
especially worried about disclos
ing the presence of the latter, be
cause one of them had been on a
trip in Arctic waters on the Nau
tilus the year before.
“It was real cloak and dagger
business,” said Adams with a
grin.
When the sub shoved off from
Seattle, the announced word to
the crew (white lie) was that she
was bound for Panama — with
expected arrival time July 4. But,
as soon as the vessel was well into
Puget Sound, the crew got a fill
in on the secret.
“The navigator showed them
on a chart where we intended
going,” Adams related. “He told
them that our objective was Reyk
javik, Iceland, after going under
the Pole. He had difficulty pro
nouncing Reykjavik, and hesi
tated about it.
“Then someone piped up: Never
mind the pronunciation. Do you
know how to find it?”
Adams said that on the night
of June 15, the Nautilus, sub
merged since it left Seattle, saw
its first ice in the shallow water
of part of the Bering Strait. The
ice was 30 feet thick, and the
submarine, cruising about 25 feet
off the sea bottom, had only 10
feet of clearance from the ice
overhead.
The Nautilus surfaced on the
night of June 17 for the first time
since Seattle in ice-free water,
then ran on the surface until it
reached the Arctic ice pack.
The ice at one point was found
to be 63 feet thick. Then 80 feet
thick — and again the sub had
a clearance of only 10 feet from
the ice.
“It began to look,” Adams re
lated, that “maybe it was a little
early.” There was a consultation
with Washington and orders re
ceived to turn back and go to
Pearl Harbor. He told a reporter
later that the Navy had origin
ally figured it might be a little
early for the full trip under the
pole, and this was confirmed by
the Nautilus probing.
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