Cmde. P.R. Franklin, AVSM, VSM (retd.) narrates some true accounts of the Soviet Foxtrot submarines that were in Indian Navy service. The names of the eight Foxtrots have been anagrammed to arrive at the name "Vanshali", which is the central submarine character of these narratives. The book covers a spectrum of the activities of Foxtrots in the service including facets of training in the USSR, taking possession, bringing them to India, wartime and peacetime activities, and finally beaching a Foxtrot for display as a museum. The book has interesting revelations of a brush with a nuclear submarine in the Arabian Sea and of an Indian submarine's predicament when confronted with the situation of meeting up with the American Carrier USS Enterprise when it entered the Bay of Bengal during 1971 Indo-Pak war.
Author Biography:
A former naval officer, Commodore P R Franklin took to writing in retired life, after serving for 36years in the Indian Navy.
His first published works were short stories that found its way into the book titled "On All Fronts - Stories from the Armed Forces", released in 2006. Then, in 2010, the National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi, published his next book titled "Submarine Operation".
Moving on to semi-fiction, but still with a nautical theme, his third book titled "Foxtrots of the Indian Navy" was published in 2015. This is his fourth book, his first pure fiction effort, but one in which he cannot avoid a nautical theme, as in his previous ones.
While in the Indian Navy, Commodore P R Franklin specialized in Submarine and Anti-submarine warfare. He was awarded the Vishisht Seva Medal in 1995 and the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal in 2001 by the President of India.
He and his wife, Joya, reside in Bangalore. His e-mail id is: jalvayufranklin1946@gmail.com
A former naval officer, Commodore P R Franklin took to
writing in retired life, after serving for 36years in the Indian
Navy. His first published works were short stories that found
its way into the book titled "On All Fronts - Stories from the
Armed Forces", released in 2006. Then, in 2010, the National
Maritime Foundation, New Delhi, published his next book
titled "Submarine Operation". Moving on to semi-fiction, but
still with a nautical theme, his third book titled "Foxtrots of the
Indian Navy" was published in 2015. This is his fourth book,
his first pure fiction effort, but one in which he cannot avoid a
nautical theme, as in his previous ones.
While in the Indian Navy, Commodore P R Franklin specialized
in Submarine and Anti-submarine warfare. He was awarded the
Vishisht Seva Medal in 1995 and the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal
in 2001 by the President of India.
He and his wife, Joya, reside in Bangalore. His e-mail id is:
jalvayufranklin1946@gmail.com
