Operation Arctic Sting by Robert G. Williscroft

Author:Robert G. Williscroft
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fresh Ink Group
Published: 2021-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

THE LYRE—PEMMICAN ROCK

While I sat in Lyre’s Control Center making a mental inventory of our acquired weapons, Spook, who had the watch, moved Lyre down the canyon and then set a course of 290 degrees. About five nautical miles distant on the north side of the Tasmania Islands, the Victor-III was using her diesel to vent the sub’s atmosphere. We could almost hear her through our hull. She was totally blind to her surroundings, so we were able to move along smartly for an hour before we turned north to course 071 degrees for our forty-eight nautical mile leg to Pemmican Rock, the entrance to Bellot Strait. Toward the end of Spook’s watch, our track took us through the middle of Franklin Strait, halfway between Dixon Island and Cape Maguire. We were on the edge of Franklin trough that dropped to over 1,300 feet. With the bottom dropping off like that, you can get an idea of the rugged land on both sides of the strait.

We had four APSs from the original Spetsnaz divers and three more from my excursion, plus 338 APS darts. We had two SPPs from the original Spetsnaz guys and three more from my trip with their twenty darts plus seventeen four-dart loads for a total of eighty-eight SSP darts. That was a lot of firepower. Out of an abundance of caution, I turned the lot over to the COB for storage in the ship’s armory. I obtained the skipper’s permission for the COB to issue the underwater weapons directly to me, or Ham in my absence, without clearing it with him.

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