5 April 2018 It may look easy, but surfacing a nuclear submarine in the Arctic requires careful preparation. Popular Mechanic story: A submarine bursting through the Arctic ice is a powerful image. But it’s not an easy one to pull… Read More »How the Navy Punches a Nuclear Sub Through Arctic Ice
19 April 2018 Royal Navy submarine HMS Trenchant has broken through the ice of the North Pole with two US submarines to bring Ice Exercise 2018 to an end. A few weeks after punching through the ice off Alaska, the… Read More »Submarine HMS Trenchant breaks through the ice of the North Pole
The Original Symposium was instigated in 2001 and focused on US naval operations and strategic issues “On 17 and 18 April 2001 the Oceanographer of the Navy, the Office of Naval Research, the Arctic Research Commission, and the Naval Ice… Read More »Symposium on Naval Operations in an Ice-free Arctic
ARCTIC SUBMARINE LABORATORY – Collections of Photographs https://www.sublant.usff.navy.mil/Press-Room/Photo-Gallery/
Arctic Mission 90 North by Airship and Submarine by William F. Althoff Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2011 An account of the US Navy’s work in the Arctic in 1958 telling the story of the USS Nautilus but also flights by… Read More »Arctic Mission
Drift Station – Arctic Outposts of Superpower Science by William F. Althhoff Potomac Books, Washington, 2007 “Closed to conventional passage, the Arctic Ocean and peripheral seas have nevertheless known European explorers since the sixteenth century. Systematic observation, however, dates only from… Read More »Drift Station
Great World War II Battles in the Arctic by Mark Llewellyn Evans Contributions to Military Studies, No. 172, Greenwood Press, London, 1999
US Navy Arctic Roadmap prepared by Task Force Climate Change / Oceanographer of the Navy – June 2011Read More »US Navy Arctic Roadmap
Surface at the Pole, Commander James Calvert, USN (1961) The story of the USS Skate.
Submarines Under Ice, The U.S. Navy’s Polar Operations, Marion D. Williams (1998)
Unknown Waters, Alfred S. McLaren (2008) A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-Ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651)
The Ice Diaries, Captain William R. Anderson (2008) The Untold Story of the USS Nautilus and the Cold War’s Most Daring Mission.
A bibliography of books, articles and websites with information pertaining to Arctic submarine operations.Read More »Arctic Submarine Operations Bibliography
