We were given an hours notice to sail and Off we went ready to push a few buttons etc
Came back alongside 3 days later
A lot of Pierhead jumps that day for Shadow Crew as it was weekend
We didn’t know if it was for real or not until the XO and the PSO deciphered it as we just spun the missiles up ready to fire and went to Hovering Depth which took 15 minutes all told
Then you got the Broadcast” Set Condition 1SQ for WSRT ( Weapons Systems Readiness Test )which was 2 minutes...
Used to be able to fire 16 Nuclear missile each with 3 Warheads in 13 minutes which they worked out back in the late 70s would give you enough time to get them all away before they got you