title: The Final Voyage of the S.S.N. Skate
author: S. Cassell
description: The "leper" of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, SSN 578 nuclear attack sub SKATE should have been reduced to scrap a decade earlier. But America is on the brink of impending disaster at Russian hands ... and the underwater deathtrap has one final mission to perform - one impossible act of piracy in hostile enemy waters that will pit the obsolete floating dinosaur and its inexperienced crew against the combined might of the Soviet Navy's finest!
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  Surface at the Pole: The Extraordinary Voyages of the USS Skate
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  James Calvert
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Published by Bowsprit Books, 2018.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Copyright
  
  
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  Surface at the Pole: The Extraordinary Voyages of the USS Skate by James
  Calvert. First published in 1960.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Annotated edition ©Copyright 2018 by Bowsprit Books.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ISBN: 978-0-359-15322-0.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Table of Contents
  
  
  [Title Page](title-page.xhtml)
  
  
  [Copyright Page](c001.xhtml)
  
  
  [Surface at the Pole: The Extraordinary Voyages of the USS Skate](c002.xhtml)
  
  
  [Part I](c003.xhtml)
  
  
  [Part II](c004.xhtml)
  
  
  [Part III](c005.xhtml)
  
  
  [Further Reading: South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition
  1914-1917](other.teaser.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  To Nancy
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Part I
  
  
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