| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | SSBN3 |
| Displacement | 17,200 tons (16,900 long tons; 19,000 short tons) |
| Length | 152.9 metres |
| Propulsion | Nuclear reactor, turbo-electric drive, pump-jet |
| Range | Unlimited |
| Armament | 12 x Lockheed Trident II D5 SLBMs (carrying up to 8 warheads each) |
| 4 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes for: Spearfish heavyweight torpedoes | |
| Complement | 130 |
Douglas Attwood was born in Ulverston in Lancashire (now in Cumbria) on 18th Jan 1892. He was the son of Alfred Attwood (a Mechanical Engineer with Rio Tinto - and the Vice Consul at Huelva, Mexico) and his wife Annie Ramsden Attwood - nee Marley).
The incredible true story of the search for and discovery of the USS Grunion. Discovered in 2006 after a decades-long, high-risk search by the Abele brothers whose father commanded the submarine and met his untimely death aboard it.
One question remained: what sank the USS Grunion? Was it a round from a Japanese ship, a catastrophic mechanical failure, or something elseone of the sub's own torpedoes? For almost half the war, submarine skippers' complaints about the MK 14 torpedo's dangerous flaws were ignored by naval brass, who sent the subs out with the defective weapon.
Fatal Dive is the first book that documents the entire saga of the ship and its crew and provides compelling evidence that the Grunion was a victim of The Great Torpedo Scandal of 1941-43. Fatal Dive finally lays to rest one of World War II’s greatest mysteries.
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| Displacement | 17,200 tons (16,900 long tons; 19,000 short tons) |
| Length | 152.9 metres |
| Propulsion | Nuclear reactor, turbo-electric drive, pump-jet |
| Range | Unlimited |
| Armament | 12 x Lockheed Trident II D5 SLBMs (carrying up to 8 warheads each) |
| 4 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes for: Spearfish heavyweight torpedoes | |
| Complement | 130 |
Douglas Attwood was born in Ulverston in Lancashire (now in Cumbria) on 18th Jan 1892. He was the son of Alfred Attwood (a Mechanical Engineer with Rio Tinto - and the Vice Consul at Huelva, Mexico) and his wife Annie Ramsden Attwood - nee Marley).
The incredible true story of the search for and discovery of the USS Grunion. Discovered in 2006 after a decades-long, high-risk search by the Abele brothers whose father commanded the submarine and met his untimely death aboard it.
One question remained: what sank the USS Grunion? Was it a round from a Japanese ship, a catastrophic mechanical failure, or something elseone of the sub's own torpedoes? For almost half the war, submarine skippers' complaints about the MK 14 torpedo's dangerous flaws were ignored by naval brass, who sent the subs out with the defective weapon.
Fatal Dive is the first book that documents the entire saga of the ship and its crew and provides compelling evidence that the Grunion was a victim of The Great Torpedo Scandal of 1941-43. Fatal Dive finally lays to rest one of World War II’s greatest mysteries.
21 pages added or updated in the last 3 month
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