by Admiral R.A. Hopwood, RN (Retired)
Admiral Hopwood’s “Laws of the Navy” was first published in a British periodical on 23 July, 1898. Well known throughout the Navy, it has appeared in the United States Naval Academy’s “Reef Points” for a number of years.
On September 4, 1974, in one of the Cold War’s most secretive and somber moments, the United States Navy held a burial at sea for the remains of Soviet sailors recovered from the sunken submarine K-129. The submarine had mysteriously disappeared in March 1968, northwest of Hawaii, with all 98 crew members aboard. Years later, the U.S. covertly recovered part of the wreck during the highly classified Project Azorian, an ambitious operation carried out by the CIA using the specially constructed ship Glomar Explorer.
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