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This book is dedicated to the men and women who served in the US Navy and the Royal Navy between 1960 and 2015, a tumultuous fifty-five years that witnessed dramatic political and strategic changes during which the seascape of the world played a dominant role.

This book is their story.

In memory of all those who lost their lives in the service of the US Navy and the Royal Navy—the last lines of “Ulysses,” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson:

Come, my friends,

’T is not too late to seek a newer world.

Push off, and sitting well in order smite

The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds

To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths

Of all the western stars, until I die.

It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:

It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,

And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.

Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’

We are not now that strength which in old days

Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.