USS Ling

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dr sportster

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• Oct 23, 2017

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Ultradog posted below about submarines so I got a Link to the USS Ling Museum which is closed since hurricane sandy . Shame a good museum closed. See how tight the interior is in the pics.{ It was actually called a submersible not a submarine.]
USS LING

 

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KEB in GCMS

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• Oct 23, 2017

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Reminds me of the USS Drum that is on display in Mobile Bay, with the USS Alabama. It is very tight to go through.

 

WalJohn

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Southside Virginia

• Oct 23, 2017

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(quoted from post at 14:12:33 10/23/17) Ultradog posted below about submarines so I got a Link to the USS Ling Museum which is closed since hurricane sandy . Shame a good museum closed. See how tight the interior is in the pics.{ It was actually called a submersible not a submarine.]
USS LING

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Toured the USS Bowfin at Pearl harbor years ago. Definitely no wasted space.

 

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jeffcat

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• Oct 23, 2017

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You mean not for any portly people. Suck the gut in mister.

 

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Steve@Advance

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• Oct 23, 2017

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I've been through the USS Cavalla sub at Seawolf Park in Galveston.

It is not built for people of this day and size!

Nor was it built for anyone that would not follow procedure and instructions. So many ways to sink that thing, a mass of plumbing and valves. When "battle station" was called, you better know where to be, how to get there, and what to do!

Very close quarters, shared bunks shift to shift, no fresh water showers or laundry, save every drop!

I can only imagine what that smelled like, closed in a room with lead acid batteries and stinky sailors. But if it was seaworthy, I'd go in a second!

I suspect it is getting in pretty bad condition, probably closed since Harvey. Think it was Ike, storm surge flooded it, lifted it off it's dry dock. The whole bottom is mostly gone to rust.

 

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JF in MI

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• Oct 23, 2017

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I like reading books of WW2 personal experiences (not "history" books) and the submarine ones seem to be the most hair raising. If they were made into movies no one would believe them.

 

showcrop

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• Oct 23, 2017

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What I want to know is: is there really a valve to close to stop the leak, right next to every leak that occurs when they are getting depth charged?

 

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Billy Shafer

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• Oct 23, 2017

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A nuke boat pulled into Mayport when I was in the Navy. Boot camp buddy happened to be aboard. Got me on for a limited tour. Years later went aboard the Cavalla. It was like going from a barn to a chicken coop. Good customer was on subs in WWII. Told me there was a reason they were called pig boats. Said the very true sub movie about WWII. Was the German film Das Boat. So real he had a hard time sitting through the movie.

 

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Pete in Holland MI

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• Oct 23, 2017

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The Silversides in Muskegon, MI, is a WW2 class sub. An experience to tour, but if you get an opportunity, many of these subs can be slept on! I've been on the Silversides 3 times with the local Boy Scouts. Quite fun to have full run of the ship to study things on your own time. Check out your local sub, but you probably have to think months in advance.

Pete

 

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Steamboat

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• Oct 23, 2017

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dr:
I really appreciate the interest Ya'll have regarding the love of my life: Diesel electric Submarines! Or as we sometimes say "Smoke Boats".
The designation SS stands for "submersible ship". Rest assured that for those of us who sailed them they were most assuredly submarines. However, to complement terminology further, we called them "boats". This stem from the fact that the very first US submarines over 100 years ago were quite small and could or would be transported aboard a surface craft, thus the affectionate "boat" designation by those who sailed them.
I never sailed on a Nuc boat, but I understand that they now call them "ships", and rightfully so, since they are larger than a WWII Destroyer.
And speaking of surface ships.... "Any ship can be a submarine..... once!"
I know there are other DBF (diesel boats forever)sailors on this board, am I right??

 

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Steamboat

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• Oct 23, 2017

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Each sea valve has a backup. So yes, you are correct.

 

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Steamboat

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• Oct 23, 2017

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For anyone wishing to read a hair-raising modern day true story of the exploits of or Nuclear Submarine Navy should read "Blind Man's Bluff" by Sherrie Sontag. Any James bond story will pale in comparison to what some of our Submarines did and are doing on special ops.

 

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JerryS

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• Oct 23, 2017

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When I saw the tagline for this post I thought it meant the Chinese were now building our warships.

 

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Phil9N3667

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• Oct 23, 2017

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I second Steamboat's recommendation on "Blind Man's Bluff", read that book a few years ago. Some of the things that happened back in the Cold War showed what the real men of that day did to survive in some of the worst possible scenarios.

 

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donjr

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• Oct 23, 2017

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I wasn't on a pigboat, but I did three patrols and a shakedown on a Polaris/ Poseidon type, and have been on the USS Torsk in the Baltimore Harbor. The Torsk is kind of like a piece of Dark Ages plumbing, and we were sort of like Buck Rodgers. The newer Los Angeles and Ohio class boats are out of Star Wars. I've also been on the Nautilus, but it wasn't much advanced past the diesel boats. It's hard to believe that was almost fifty years ago.....

 

Janicholson

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• Oct 23, 2017

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My dad was a 2nd Class Torpedoman stationed on Guam. He never was in action because the navy found out he could operate heavy equipment and he was souvenired to the Seebees making runways. Jim

 

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r_d97

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• Oct 23, 2017

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I did 4 years in the engine room on USS Archerfish (SSN678) from 82-86 and subs were then and always will be to me- boats. We went places we weren't supposed to be at and saw things you weren't supposed to see. I guess that is why sailors on subs have at least a SECRET clearance. There were times that no one was allowed near the plot except the Navigator, the XO and the CO. I also got to go to and surface at the north pole for a visit on May 6th, 1986 where 3 subs did a rendezvous.

Edward

 

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Russ from MN

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• Oct 23, 2017

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I went on a tour of the Drum in the spring of 73, I always thought it was a WW1 boat, it was so small. I have been through the Bowfin in Pearl Harbor and the Cobia in Manitowoc WI.

 

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WeirdDeere

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• Oct 24, 2017

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You can also tour the USS Cod in Cleveland, a WW2 era sub that did patrols. It's restored and on display full of period things, a great tour to go through! As others said it's extremely interesting, AND tight! If you have claustrophobia, don't go in!

Brandon
The Cod