THE IMPACT OF POLARIS.
Language: English
Published by Richard Netherwood Limited Huddersfield., 1999
- Softcover
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A softback publication of 270 pages with b / w. photos. Slight lean to spine but internally near fine.
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- Title
- THE IMPACT OF POLARIS.
- Author
- Moore Captain J.E.
- Publisher
- Richard Netherwood Limited Huddersfield.
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 187295524X
- ISBN 13
- 9781872955247
- Seller catalogs
- Maritime History.
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THE Royal Navy's most senior admirals joined forces in the Sixties to prevent Lord Beeching, the man blamed for ravaging the rail network, from gaining control of the Polaris missile project.
Initially carried out in total secrecy, the project to design and construct the Polaris ballistic missile submarine fleet was run by a small group of Royal Navy commanders. However, according to those involved, Peter Thorneycroft, the Defence Secretary at the time, wanted to put Dr Richard Beeching in charge. He was ennobled later.
The disclosure appears in a unique collection of articles written by those most intimately engaged in the Polaris programme. The Impact of Polaris, edited by Captain John Moore, who drew up the first Polaris feasibility study for the government of Harold Macmillan in 1962, is to be published soon.
Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh Mackenzie, the Chief Polaris Executive from 1963 to 1968, who has died since making his contribution to the book, recalled: "In April [1963] a proposal from the Secretary of Defence threw my very existence into the melting pot. It suggested that I personally be replaced by Dr Beeching who had recently acquired fame, or infamy, for his reorganisation of British Rail." Dr Beeching's rail report in 1963 recommended the closure of 2,128 stations, a reduction by a quarter of the rail network and the axing of 67,700 jobs.
Fortunately for Admiral Mackenzie, Lord Carrington, the First Lord of the Admiralty; Admiral Sir Casper John, the First Sea Lord; and Admiral Sir Michael Le Fanu, Controller of the Navy, all believed the Navy could "run the show".
Admiral Mackenzie wrote: "The proposal, which could only have been totally disruptive of all the effort so far expended by the Navy on building up the Polaris Executive, was hurriedly dropped." The Polaris team did use the management expertise of the late Sir Frederic Hooper, who had just retired as chairman of Schweppes.
In the earliest days of the Polaris story, there were also a number of other proposals which caused alarm in the Royal Navy.
Captain Moore, who was given 18 hours to prepare a report for the Cabinet in December 1962 on the impact of the introduction of Polaris on the Royal Navy, revealed that one of the first suggestions from Washington was for modules containing Polaris missiles to be placed in the "holds of merchant ships which could then cruise the Atlantic". He says: "This naive and pointless proposition died a well-deserved death."
However, it was succeeded by another "equally ill-founded suggestion". It was a plan to arm two dozen Nato warships with Polaris missiles and to man them with ships' companies from all the alliance navies. Captain Moore says: "The linguistic problems beggared description. We believe this strange notion had reached the wastepaper basket by late 1962." -- The Times, Sept. 23 1999
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