Alton Gansky, A Ship Posessed, 1999
United States (WWII)
USS Triggerfish (SS-210)
Gato Class
Details as per the real ships
Comissioned: 15th April, 1943
Lost: August, 1943
Note: Referred to as an Improved Gato Class submarine by a character, but what that means is never specified. The pennant number first given clashes with that of USS Grenadier, a member of the preceeding Tambor Class. Later in the novel reference is made to the submarine having the same pennant number as the Gato Class Submarine USS Trigger (SS-237).
Plot summary: A submarine that disappeared in the Atlantic in 1943, has just washed up on the Pacific coast of the United States in the 'present day'.
Note: The basic idea behind the plot was used in the 1977 novel 'Ghostboat', the author of this novel is another Christian author trying to use fiction forms other than the ones normally used by Christian writers to spread their faith. Unlike the novel 'Running Deep: A Novel of Submarines, SEALS and Souls' (2002) which I've covered in this thread, this one does not jump to God and preaching at the reader until well into the story. What is most amusing is the authors taking of all kinds of fringe ideas (UFOs and the like.) and ascribing them to 'Angels and Demons'...
The novel suffers from some sloppy editing as can be seen from the use of two different pennant numbers for the same submarine.
