Skydancer (1988)
“The grey, pre-dawn light cast no shadow, and the overall-clad dock-hands looked almost faceless to Commander Carrington as he peered down at them from the top of the fin. The anonymous figures unhooked the mooring lines from the bollards and cast them into the water. The seamen on the narrow casing of HMS Retribution hauled the sodden ropes from the sea and stowed them securely under a steel hatch.
Once clear of the dockside, the multi-bladed fan-like propeller began to turn, causing the water ...behind the rudder to bubble and foam. The tow-line from the tug was released and the submarine’s foredeck party hurried below, closing the forward hatch tightly behind them.
‘Slow ahead!’ Carrington almost whispered the command into the microphone he held close to his lips. His voice was hushed in spontaneous reverence at the sight of the crimson curve of the sun rising smoothly over the edge of the world, separating at last the greyness of the sea from that of the sky.
‘Take a good look at it!’ he told himself.MoreLess
Once clear of the dockside, the multi-bladed fan-like propeller began to turn, causing the water ...behind the rudder to bubble and foam. The tow-line from the tug was released and the submarine’s foredeck party hurried below, closing the forward hatch tightly behind them.
‘Slow ahead!’ Carrington almost whispered the command into the microphone he held close to his lips. His voice was hushed in spontaneous reverence at the sight of the crimson curve of the sun rising smoothly over the edge of the world, separating at last the greyness of the sea from that of the sky.
‘Take a good look at it!’ he told himself.MoreLess
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