Submarines Quotes

“Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles!”
― Nevil Shute, On the Beach

“Rina balanced a small accounting tablet on her lap while The Galgorum burrowed. For three hours the cutters squealed into glacial ice. Conrad’s breath hawed and hawed over the comlink that connected their suits, loud in Rina’s helmet until she wanted to crawl back up to the surface.”
― Dixon Reuel, Harmemoric Asylum

“MS City of New York
The MS City of New York commanded by Captain George T. Sullivan, maintained a regular schedule between New York City and Cape Town, South Africa until the onset of World War II when on March 29, 1942 she was attacked off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina by the German submarine U-160 commanded by Kapitänleutnant Georg Lassen.”
― Captain Hank Bracker

“The USS Pargo, known for its participation in the search for the missing attack submarine USS Scorpion in 1968, was altered to conduct acoustic trials leading to acoustic alterations of all U.S. submarines. She was also involved in artic research during which the USS Pargo surfaced at the North Pole several times. Following this she was assigned to station keeping duty off the coast of New London and conducted various trials in the Caribbean. The Pargo was decommissioned on April 14, 1995 and scraped in 1996.”
― Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One...."

“I dragged my gear down to the shore and saw the submariners, the way they stood aloof and silent, watching their pigboat with loving eyes. They are alone in the Navy. I admired the PT boys. And I often wondered how the aviators had the courage to go out day after day and I forgave their boasting. But the submariners! In the entire fleet they stand apart.”
― James Michener

“There is Always a calculated risk---the Unknown Factor.”
― Movie Mirror

“A mental image came to her of a good submarine--painted white, perhaps, with a crew that eschewed swearing (at sea) and hard liquor (when ashore), engaged in heroic acts, never used, as most submarines were, to intimidate others. But there were no such submarines--not in the world we knew. There were only dark prowlers bristling with weapons. One nuclear submarine, armed with its Trident missiles, could destroy our planet as we knew it. One submarine, she thought; one. In such a world, what chance did a good submarine have?”
― Alexander McCall Smith Peter Bailey