Chronological view
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Step 11 of 14 · Friday 26 October 1962
The Marucla is boarded
Sailors from USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. board the Soviet-chartered freighter Marucla, find no weapons and let her pass. In the evening a long personal letter from Khrushchev offers to remove the missiles if the US promises not to invade Cuba.
- The first and only boarding of the quarantine.
- Work on the missile sites in Cuba speeds up.
- United States
- Soviet Union
- Submarine
- R-12 range, ~1,900 km
- R-14 range, ~4,000 km
- Quarantine line, 500 nmi
On the map
United States
- USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. · Boarding party
- USS Essex · Anti-submarine group on the quarantine line
- USS Newport News · Quarantine force flagship
- USS Enterprise · Covering Guantánamo and the Windward Passage
Soviet Union
- Aleksandrovsk · Docked at La Isabela
- Kimovsk · Sailing home
- Yuri Gagarin · Sailing home
- Marucla · Boarded and cleared
- Bucharest · Arrived in Havana
- B-59 · Foxtrot submarine with a nuclear torpedo
Ship positions are approximate and show the situation of the day, not exact tracks.