Hunley (AS 31) - Naval Cruise Book

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'Linlg ifmrh Srntlanh The year was '63, the month was February, and the day was like day except that we were there. HThereU of course was Scotland, ing herself with a dark sky, occasionally ruptured by searing brilliant sunlight, and a galloping breeze which raked the stiff-arming the Unfurled colors. any other introduc- shafts of halyards, HUNLEY parted the Clyde, feeling that strange mixture of anxiousness and anticipation. For here finally, after months of planning was a new home in a strange land. The great gray hull come around to port and there off the quarter was Hunter's Quay, Strone Church to starboard. HUNLEY had her first maidenly peek at the embracing hills and the Loch nextling in their midst. The Holy Loch, future yet undefined. For some twelve centuries the legends and history of Western sionary drive of the seventh century, the age that a proper name on a map, now home port in a Holy Loch had carved out a niche in the Scotland. During the enthusiastic mis- bristles with the stalwarts: St. Patrick, St. Columbay St. Mungo and the host of their dis- ciples, Christianity migrated from the kingdom of Erinnan llrelandl to the barbaric wilds of Alba CScotlandJ. Tradition holds that a lonely Monk, called Mun, errected a rough stone chapel from which he taught, preached and contemplated, on the shores of a small salt water loch in Eastern Argyllshire., The place became, in time revered as Kilmun CCel- tic for the Hcelln or home of Munj, with the entire area, including the loch, revered as holy - and so the name. A christening of fact and faith which through the generations spoke of a placidity and a peace, sought after but rarely found in this world. To this tiny point on a map, the HUNLEY was ordered PROTEUS7 a place name now synonymous with Polaris and Missile Submarine. The Holy Loch was the first womb throbbed into the main currents of the world's oceans On that day in l963, the forward chain was pinned to drum, the stern was edged in and HUNLEY settled down ture which for three years has superimposed a crew on of life within a culture and a people upon a nation. to relieve the USS the Fleet Ballistic from which nuclear the black mooring to the great adven- a community, a way We have learned a new vocabularly, and manage to get along with a pidgen- Scots. Stoking coal fires and while rain coats and wellington day is caressed and cherished - will Hcome again another dayu. and pennies, and the concept of filling papaffin heaters is a daily chore boots have become indespensible. A sunny and rain is a factor tolerated because it Shillings and pence have replaced dimes thriftiness is found to be contagious.

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CAPTAIN AP. Kuux y u s NAVY EXECUTIVE OFFICER Born 7 January l92M in Manchester, New Hampshire. He attended grade school and high school in Manchester and grad- uated from the U.S. Naval Academy in l9M5 with the Class of l9H6. CAPT KULlK's duty assignments have included - USS LST 6035 Executive Officer of Uss LST 8555 Uss CHARR iss-32835 Post Graduate School, Monterey, California, Squadron Communications Officer on Staff, COMSUBRON SEVEN, Executive Officer of USS BREAM CSSK-21-I-3yj Force Communications Officer on Staff, COMSUBPAC5 Armed Forces Staff College, Commanding Officer of Uss TRIGGER iss-56hy, Fleet Submarine Officer and Assistant Operations Officer on Staff COMSIXTHFLT5 Head of Strategic Plans and Programs, Submarine Warfare Division Office of Chief of Naval Operations. CAPT KULIK reported to' HUNLEY on 8 July l965 for duty as Executive Officer.

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Our offspring have been schooled our sailors have been married our dead have been buried our lives have been altered and we have left far more than months or years in that tiny thumb of the Clyde which for us has been home and harbor The heather four times has dyed the hills with a purple coat The skirl of the pipes have echoed through the glens the sheep have been sheared. We have said our goodbyes to friends and helloes to their reliefs. We have laughed and cried given birth worried and wondered in villages like Sandbank Blairmore Strone Innellan and in towns like Dunoon, Greenock and Gourock And now it is done From a place which long ago reflected the hope of a man for peace on earth we sail having invested three years in preserving that peace Looking back which sometimes is the best view the sleepless nights, the prolonged separations the frustrations the angers all blend into a modified acceptance of what had to be a human mission made worthwhile by human sweat For never has a submarine missed her departure date, and never has a job remained unfinished The glory is long gone the task has been one of tired muscle and tired brain which is the reward of all men dedicated to something really worth while Three and a half years and some l2O refits in the book make the mark. Another chapter is written in the chronicle of the Holy Loch A place, a people a memory a mission this is the story of the HUNLEY and the Holy Loch A story never to be forgotten by those who lived it - and a story long to be remembered by a grateful nation As we came, so we go, but with so much more. To Hunter's Quay, hard to starboard and home we go, with Hold acquaintance never forgotu. 1 I ' 1 I 1 I . . . . O I - n I I I a I I ' ' I I I I n ' ' I I I I I ' l 0 0 g . . . K I O - . . . . . I I I I I . . . . . . . . . . . - - . . . . I . . . O . . l I . . . . I . . . . I 1 ' - . I I . Q i lt