Three Knots to Nowhere (34 page)

Connell, Tommy Lee

continental shelf

control room

Cook, Capt. James

Cooper River

Cossey, James

Costas

Crater Rim Road

crush depth

Csencsics, Dave

Cuba

D1G

Dana, Richard

Davis, Bob

Devastation Trail

Diamond Head

Dianotto, Vince

Dink

Disneyland

diving officer

down-bubble

Dubay, Curt

Dubay, Frank, Jr.

Dubay, Frank, Sr.

Dubay, Harry

Dubay, Leona Gus

Dubay, Leona Sweetie

Dubay, Marcia

Dubay, Scott

Dubay, Vickie

8000-gallon-per-day distillation unit

Einstein, Albert

electric plant control panel (EPCP)

electrican's mate “A” School

ELT

emergency air breathing (EAB)

emergency diesel generator (E D/G)

emergency propulsion motor (EPM)

engine order telegraph

engineer

engineering officer of the watch (EOOW)

Engineer's Night Order Book

escape tower

escape trunk

fairwater planes

Falcon
, USS

family-gram

fast cruise

fast–SCRAM recovery

Fern Forest

Fiddler's Green

first sitting

floating wire antenna

Ford Island

Fort DeRussey

Forty-One for Freedom

Frechette, Bob

Fudd, Lt.

Fulton
, USS

galley

GCT

General Electric

GI Bill

goat locker

going-home turns

Gold Crew

Great Lakes Naval Training Center, North Chicago, Ill.

green-band

green board

Groton, Conn.

Gruver, Bill

Guam

Halawa Terminal

Hartford, Conn.

Hawaii

Hawaii Five-O

Hawthorne, Robert

helicopter

helmsman

Henry Clay Clarion

Henry Lemon Clay (HLC)

Hercules (VW Beetle)

Hickory High School

Hickory Township

High Yield 80 (HY-80)

Holy Loch, Scotland

Honolulu

Horne, Jim

hovering

hump day

Humphreys, John

Hymie Hilton

ICBM

Idaho Falls, Idaho

in-hold-out switch

International Date Line

Jakucyk, Jack

jam dive

John Adams
, USS

junior officer of the deck (JOOD)

Kamehameha Highway

Kealakekua Bay

kiddy-cruiser

Kiick, Jim

Kilauea Iki

Kilauea Military Camp (KMC)

Kodak Instamatic camera

Koolua Mountains

Lanai

last man down

launch depth

Lava Tree State Park

Lewis, Rich

Lingle E.K.

lithium-bromide air conditioning unit

logroom

logroom yeoman

Long Beach, Calif.

Long Island

longboat

Lord, Jack

Losen, Mr.

Love, Dick

lovely (hot chocolate)

Lusaini, Earl

mail bouy

maneuvering

maneuvering watch

Marchbanks, Rich

MASH

Mauna Kai

Mauna Loa

McCann, Joel

mess cook

messdeck

messenger of the watch

Metzgus, Greg

Miami Dolphins

Mickey Mouse ears

mid-rats

military standby

monkey fist

Montross, Robert

Murphy, Joe

Muster

NASA

Nathan Hale
, USS

Nautilus
, USS

Naval Weapons Station

New London, Conn.

non-qual puke

non-useful body (NUB)

North Pole

NPTU

nuclear liaison officer

Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recylcing Program

nuclear triad

Nucleonics Lab

Nukie-Pu-U

Oahu

officer of the deck (OOD)

O'Heiren, Ron

1MC

1SQ

126 cell battery

oxygen generator

Pacific Ocean

Panama Canal

patrol pin star

Pavlov, Mike

Pearl Harbor

periscope liberty

Philadelphia, Pa.

pink tag

piping tab

plan of the day (POD)

planesman

plumeria flower

Polaris A-2

Polaris A-3

poopie suit

port and starboard watches

Port Canaveral, Fla.

Pottenger, Walt

Powell, Colin

Pressurizer

prototype

Puerto Rico

Purdum's Pirates

Purple Herart

Ralph

reactor compartment tunnel

reactor control rods

reactor plant control panel (RPCP)

rest and relaxation (R&R)

Rickover, Hyman G.

rig for reduced electrical

rigged-for-red

Roosevelt Roads

Russian submarine

Russian trawler

S5W

sail

sailplanes

salinity cell

sanitary tank

Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Schweikert, Charlie

Schweikert, Pat

Scorpion
, USS

SCRAM

scuttlebutt

sea daddy

sea-lane choke points

sea trials

second seating

service week

shark

Sherwood Forest

Shinow, Ty

ships service turbine generator (SSTG)

shore power

shutdown electrical operator (SEO)

shutdown maneuvering watch (SMAW)

shutdown roving watch (SRW)

SIC

signal ejector

silent service

Simpson, O.J.

skimmer

Skylark
, USS

slide rule

Smyth, Dr.

snorkeling

Souder, Barbara

Souder, Bill

sound transient

sound trials

Southerland, Bob

Soviet

Spies

Sports Illustrated

SSBN Deterrent Patrol Insignia (patrol pin)

steam plant control panel (SPCP)

Steinke hood

strategic air command (SAC)

submarine school

Submarine School Raiders

Submarine Skullduggery

submarine smell

Submarine Squadron Fifteen

Submarine Squadron Ten

submarine unqualified (SU)

SUB-PAC

suitcase

super-surface

test depth

Thames River

Thompson, Annie

300 kw motor generator

Thresher
, USS

throttleman

TL-29 electrician knife

trash disposal unit (TDU)

Treptow, Dick

trim party

Triton
, USS

Trout
, USS

Turtleback

2JV

2MC

2000-gallon per day distillation unit

Two Years Before the Mast

ultra-quiet

Unit Commendation

U.S. Nuclear Power School

United States Submarine Museum

United States Submarine Veterans Incorporated

University of Wyoming

Vahine

Vannoy, Charlie

Vargas

venting a sanitary inboard

Vietnam

voice tube

Volcano National Park

Waikiki

Wake Island (Alamo of the Pacific)

Walker spy ring

Ward, Doug

wardroom

watch quarter station bill

watertight door

Weapons System Readiness Test (WSRT)

Welch, Raquel

Westinghouse

White Rat

Wilson, John

Windsor, Conn.

Wishon, Rusty

Woodrow Wilson
, USS

Wryn, Stan

Yellow Crew

Zulu/Greenwich Mean Time