Engineers Tried for Hours to Restart the “Dead” Warship — Then the Admiral Called a Retired Sailor No One Remembered

sudden violence but with the accumulating momentum of something enormous awakening from a long and involuntary sleep.

The turbines began to turn.

“Stable pressure,” Davis said, and the disbelief in his voice was total. He checked the reading twice before he said it again, as if once wasn’t enough to make it real. “Temperature within parameters. RPM increasing continue reading …