Vindicating the USS Swordfish

• Authors: Streifer Bill
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

Cold War; K-129; North Korea; Pueblo Incident; Soviet Union

• Publisher: Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN
• Journal: Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 32
• Pages: 43-60

Dates

published

2019-12-01

Contributors

author

Streifer Bill

• Vostok (Russian Academy of Sciences)

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