"Setting Mines From a Midget Sub, " casein on Board, 28" x20". All sides in World War II experimented with small submarines which could carry underwater demolition teams into heavily guarded anchorages. Although no attempt was very successful, development continued after the war until guided missiles made the concept obsolete. A prototype of this submarine was built in 1954, and now sits by the side of the road entering the Naval Research Station in Annapolis. All photos Š Fred Freeman, 1983.
" Russian Missile Submarine," gouache on Board, 14" x 18". Th e crew ofa Hotelll-Class Russian submarine salutes to port, passing the flagship, on entering home port Leningrad. Jn 1967, 13 of this class of submarines were converted to carry the SS-5 missile system with 700 mile range Serb missiles in place of the shorter (300 mile) Sark, and launches her ballistic missiles from three vertically mounted tubes in the sail. This class ranges some 22, 700 miles which enables her to reach almost any strategic coastal target with her missiles. One of these submarines sank in 1968, and was raised by the U.S. in 1974.