The Silent Service - Season 2
Season 2
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DatesMar 7, 1958 - Nov 28, 1958
Episodes
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
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
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
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
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
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
Season 2Episode 730 min
The Ugly Duckling
Apr 18, 1958
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
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
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
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
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
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
Season 2Episode 1430 min
The Triton's Christmas
The Triton wardroom and torpedomen ensure a good Christmas is had by all.
Jun 6, 1958
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
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
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
Season 2Episode 1830 min
The Growler's Captain
A submarine captain sacrifices himself for the safety of his ship and crew.
Jul 4, 1958
Season 2Episode 1930 min
The Tinosa Story
Jul 11, 1958
Season 2Episode 2030 min
The Grayling Story
A Lucky hat and a whale of a tale that contribute to an evasion.
Jul 18, 1958
Season 2Episode 2130 min
The S-44 Story
A renovated 18-year-old sub is sent to sink a Japanese cruiser.
Jul 25, 1958
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
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
Season 2Episode 2430 min
The Sunfish Story
The U.S.S. Sunfish endures 186 depth charges released by Japanese surface craft.
Aug 15, 1958
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Season 2Episode 3530 min
The Bowfin Story
Today's theme is the Bowfin Story.
Oct 31, 1958
Season 2Episode 3630 min
Royal Submarines
A British sub commander in the Mediterranean intercepts enemy supply boats.
Nov 7, 1958
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
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
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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