As per the operation plan, the five mother submarines waited off Port Hacking on the nights of 1 and 2 June for the midget submarines to return.
Happy, submarining, just waiting for dirty commies to roll up on him.
Four of the mother submarines would be waiting in an east west line 16 km long, with the fifth waiting 6 km further south.
Destroying three aircraft, a fuel dump and numerous buildings, the surviving SBS men had to hide in the countryside for four days before they could reach the waiting submarine.
In September , 1941 a U-boat fired at an American destroyer en route to Iceland; it missed the ship, but Roosevelt responded by issuing an order enabling the U.S. Navy to fire at Nazi submarines on sight, without waiting for them to shoot first.
They were ordered to patrol approaches to Pakistan's Karachi harbour and Makran Coast, for which they established waiting stations and submarine havens.
Waiting to die in the sunken submarine Kursk last August, a young Russian sailor scrawled a note describing how he and 22 others had rushed to a rear escape hatch only to find there was no way out.
The Royal Navy was investigating claims by one of its servicemen that security and safety around Trident nuclear submarines are inadequate and the programme is a "disaster waiting to happen".
In silos, in submarines, in nocturnal repose, the beast, the nuclear beasts, the golems, waiting to be triggered into life, to be given purpose, to be given soul.
American submarines, for instance, have spent lots of time off Russian naval ports, waiting to intercept radio communications and check out the capabilities of each new class of Russian missile boats.
