The Silent Service - Season 2

The Silent Service - Season 2

Season 2

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DatesMar 7, 1958 - Nov 28, 1958
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Episodes

Archerfish Spits Straight
Season 2Episode 130 min

Archerfish Spits Straight

Submarine Commander questions his own judgment and beaches himself in administrative duty. He returns to sea and commands another sub to sink one of the biggest warship prizes of the war.
Mar 7, 1958
The Sea Devil Attacks Puget Sound
Season 2Episode 230 min

The Sea Devil Attacks Puget Sound

US Submarine vs US ASW group consisting of Destroyers and aircraft in a Cold War era war game. Who will win the competition?
Mar 14, 1958
The Bergall's Revenge
Season 2Episode 330 min

The Bergall's Revenge

Follows the beginning of the Bergall's third war patrol to Lombok strait. The highlight of the patrol is to use the new "cutie" torpedo to eliminate escorts that threaten US subs passing through the straits.
Mar 21, 1958
Unsuccessful Patrol
Season 2Episode 430 min

Unsuccessful Patrol

S boats were early and older US subs. S34 was sent into Kiska, Alaska after Japan invaded. She barely survived. Nothing sunk, but she survived.
Mar 28, 1958
The Aspro Story
Season 2Episode 530 min

The Aspro Story

US subs provided lifeguard duty. Saving downed allied pilots. The USS Aspro did that just outside Tokyo, Japan in Aug. 1945 at great risk to all aboard.
Apr 4, 1958
The Thresher Story
Season 2Episode 630 min

The Thresher Story

Torpedo test goes wrong and fired with the outer door still closed. It has to be disarmed or boom. Thresher adds a 5" gun for surface action in 42. US Torpedoes were bad at that time. The 5" gun saved the Thresher in a duel with a Jap ship.
Apr 11, 1958
The Ugly Duckling
Season 2Episode 730 min

The Ugly Duckling

Apr 18, 1958
Peto Plucks Some Chickens
Season 2Episode 830 min

Peto Plucks Some Chickens

This episode starts with the New CO borrowing uniforms from one of his officers in San Fran. The Story ends with that JO resigning to be a priest. Plenty of soul saving in between late in the war.
Apr 25, 1958
The S-38 Story
Season 2Episode 930 min

The S-38 Story

During the Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies the S-38 attempts to rescue survivors from a British destroyer. She rescued 58 Royal sailors from the HMS Electra which had been sunk the day before.
May 2, 1958
Incident Down South
Season 2Episode 1030 min

Incident Down South

In early 1942, the USS Tarpon is in bad shape. Then bad turns to worse when she is grounded on an uncharted reef. Can the ship float free in time to avoid the nearby Japanese?
May 9, 1958
Mine for Keeps
Season 2Episode 1130 min

Mine for Keeps

When the Navy learns that Japanese freighters are hugging the coast of Japan in order to evade US submarines, the Trigger is sent to the area to lay mines to force Japanese shipping out into deeper waters. USS Trigger (SS-237) a Gato-class submarine. From 3 Dec 1942 to 22 Jan 1943, the submarine conducted a combined minelaying and offensive patrol, in waters surrounding Japan. On 20 December, she began planting a minefield off Inubo Saki, Honshū. Trigger planted the northern half of the field and was working on the southern part when a cargo ship passed her, heading into the newly-laid mines. Five minutes later, a violent explosion rocked the captain of the Trigger gets to see the freighter while an escort circled her. The submarine later heard another explosion from the direction of the minefield and, when she surfaced the next day, found the field was covered by smoke.
May 16, 1958
Fish Out of Water
Season 2Episode 1230 min

Fish Out of Water

The USS Baya operates in cooperation with Navy patrol planes in the South China Sea.
May 23, 1958
Cod's Lost Boarding Party
Season 2Episode 1330 min

Cod's Lost Boarding Party

The USS Cod boarding party was stranded for 52 hours on a Japanese junk before they could be rescued.
May 30, 1958
The Triton's Christmas
Season 2Episode 1430 min

The Triton's Christmas

The Triton wardroom and torpedomen ensure a good Christmas is had by all.
Jun 6, 1958
The Hawkbill's Revenge
Season 2Episode 1530 min

The Hawkbill's Revenge

The skipper of the USS Hawkbill vows revenge when a Japanese minelayer sinks the USS Lagarto.
Jun 13, 1958
The Tigershark
Season 2Episode 1630 min

The Tigershark

Tigershark sights an enemy task force. The skipper has to make a decision: Follow orders and leave the area or surface and radio headquarters. His decision leads to one of his sailors being recommended for the Navy Cross.
Jun 22, 1958
The Cavalla Story
Season 2Episode 1730 min

The Cavalla Story

On her first war patrol in June of 1944, the USS Cavala's captain obeys orders despite a tempting target. His disciplined conduct sets up the great American victory of "The Marianas Turkey Shoot."
Jun 27, 1958
The Growler's Captain
Season 2Episode 1830 min

The Growler's Captain

A submarine captain sacrifices himself for the safety of his ship and crew.
Jul 4, 1958
The Tinosa Story
Season 2Episode 1930 min

The Tinosa Story

Jul 11, 1958
The Grayling Story
Season 2Episode 2030 min

The Grayling Story

A Lucky hat and a whale of a tale that contribute to an evasion.
Jul 18, 1958
The S-44 Story
Season 2Episode 2130 min

The S-44 Story

A renovated 18-year-old sub is sent to sink a Japanese cruiser.
Jul 25, 1958
The Pargo's Lucky Seventh
Season 2Episode 2230 min

The Pargo's Lucky Seventh

On her seventh war patrol, the USS Pargo gets an assignment to land Australian commandos on one of the Paracel Islands.
Aug 1, 1958
Crevalle's Mine Plant
Season 2Episode 2330 min

Crevalle's Mine Plant

Laying mines off the Japanese-held harbor of Saigon was a tough job at best; but, with one of your own mines stuck in the torpedo tube and an enemy destroyer closing fast, it was a downright nightmare.
Aug 8, 1958
The Sunfish Story
Season 2Episode 2430 min

The Sunfish Story

The U.S.S. Sunfish endures 186 depth charges released by Japanese surface craft.
Aug 15, 1958
The Sunfish's Cook
Season 2Episode 2530 min

The Sunfish's Cook

Fed up with his routine chores in the gallery, the cook of the USS Sunfish, Teddy Aldridge, requests an active combat station for the next engagement with the enemy. The ship's executive officer assigns him a Browning automatic rifle for use during surface action.
Aug 22, 1958
The Nautilus and the Nuns
Season 2Episode 2630 min

The Nautilus and the Nuns

Fourteen nuns escape from the Solomon Islands in the U.S.S. Nautilus.
Aug 29, 1958
The Sandshark Story
Season 2Episode 2730 min

The Sandshark Story

American submarine is sent to rescue missionaries from Japanese held island, but one does not want to leave.
Sep 5, 1958
Operation Seadragon
Season 2Episode 2830 min

Operation Seadragon

Appendectomy. No doctor. No surgical supplies. But American Submariners get the job done -- even as depth charges explode nearby.
Sep 12, 1958
The Harder at Woleai
Season 2Episode 2930 min

The Harder at Woleai

Extensive effort to rescue a downed pilot off enemy held island beach from a reef. Early success versus an enemy destroyer. CDR Samuel D Dealey commanding.
Sep 19, 1958
The Tautog Story
Season 2Episode 3030 min

The Tautog Story

USS Tautog was at Pearl Dec. 7th, 1941. She sank 26 Jap ships equating to 72,606 tons by the end of the war. She had one of the best records in WWII.
Sep 26, 1958
The Swordfish Story
Season 2Episode 3130 min

The Swordfish Story

USS Swordfish travels to the Lembeh Straits on Celebes to discover how an Imperial Japanese air base is being supplied.
Oct 3, 1958
The Gabilan Story
Season 2Episode 3230 min

The Gabilan Story

Submarine risks Japanese shore batteries to rescue downed airman less than a mile off coast of Japan. Then USN destroyers mistake submarine for Japanese ship. Galivan evades multiple attacks by "friendly" destroyers.
Oct 10, 1958
The Gato Story
Season 2Episode 3330 min

The Gato Story

The captain of the USS Gato plays a hunch (or is it something more than a mere "hunch"?) to rescue downed American airmen.
Oct 17, 1958
The Silversides Story
Season 2Episode 3430 min

The Silversides Story

An egocentric young torpedoman matures as he his shaped by the harsh realities of submarine combat.
Oct 24, 1958
The Bowfin Story
Season 2Episode 3530 min

The Bowfin Story

Today's theme is the Bowfin Story.
Oct 31, 1958
Royal Submarines
Season 2Episode 3630 min

Royal Submarines

A British sub commander in the Mediterranean intercepts enemy supply boats.
Nov 7, 1958
Squalus Rescue
Season 2Episode 3730 min

Squalus Rescue

USS Squalus sinks off of New Hampshire in 1939. New rescue equipment is used to rescue half of the crew.
Nov 14, 1958
Seanettle vs U-Boat
Season 2Episode 3830 min

Seanettle vs U-Boat

American submarine skillfully tracks and engages a German U-Boat that is headed for Japan.
Nov 21, 1958
U-47 in Scapa Flow
Season 2Episode 3930 min

U-47 in Scapa Flow

On 14 October 1939, Gunther Prien penetrated the Royal Navy's primary base at Scapa Flow where he torpedoed and sank the battleship Royal Oak and returned home to instant fame.
Nov 28, 1958

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