USS Batfish sails again

Ultradog MN · May 24, 2019

Well, not quite.
Flooding in Muskogee, OK has caused her to lift off of her permanent mooring and she's afloat.
I'll bet she wishes she could go hammer some Japanese shipping again.
Interesting little blurb here.

flembo · May 24, 2019

Interesting story Thanks UD.

Russ from MN · May 24, 2019

Very interesting, I wondered how they got it there! Is it normally open for tours?

Farmall plowboy · May 24, 2019

send her out to work over the chinese shipping.

Billy NY · May 24, 2019

The article said they made a path and flooded it to float it in. Pretty cool those veterans got together and made this happen, people get to see what it was like to be in one of these. Similar to the remaining flight worthy aircraft that tour the country, they can get a glimpse of what it was like, all of that is lost over time and the sacrifices made can only be learned through description vs seeing the real thing.

John S-B · May 24, 2019

We all can do our part to sink Chinese shipping...
I once went to five different hardware stores to find US made steel round stock.

Ultradog MN · May 24, 2019

I read a longer, more detailed account of the move some years ago but can't find it now. The article below mostly just skims over all the hassles they went through but gives you some idea. The Oklahomans really did us a great service by saving this sub.
Click here

Dean · May 24, 2019

Interesting, UD.

Thanks for posting.

Dean

Steve@Advance · May 24, 2019

Same thing happened to the Carvella, a sub on display at Seawolf park in Galveston.

It lifted off it's resting place during a hurricane. Didn't go floating away, as most of the hull is rusted through, but sort of rolled on it's side.

Took a lot of work getting it back upright and cleaned up.

BobReeves · May 24, 2019

I live about 30 miles from the Batfish, it's first on the list of places to visit when someone visits from out of state. They brought it up the Mississippi to the Arkansas then dug a channel to where it sits.

The boys have it under control, keeping it from being swept down river and ending up like the two barges that got loose. We do not need any more rain...

Stephen Newell · May 24, 2019

Don't think one sub would be enough. I watched a freight train the other day and most of the containers said China Shipping on the side. There were a few that said Amazon on the side but there was Chinese writing below.

Billy Shafer · May 24, 2019

I went aboard the Carvella one year. Those guys had some big ones. To go to sea on those things.

Doug-Iowa · May 24, 2019

I was there last year. One of best preserved WW2 era subs I've ever been on, and I try to visit every one I find in my travels. Kudos to the volunteers that take care of the Batfish and the museum.

Steamboat · May 24, 2019

USS Atule SS403 1960-64. Cuban Missile Crises, Med run

Briar Hill Brittanys · May 24, 2019

Great post, and link. Thanks dog.

David G · May 27, 2019

My uncle was from Muskogee.

Father was Langston, mother was Huston.

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