New 1/72 Golf II kit

[greenman407]

Your work is incredible! You've Peaked my Interest. If you are looking for ideas about what to build, How about a "MIKE" class in 1/72? If that doesn't tickle your Fancy..... how about a USS Triton also in 1/72?

[598602G]

Is that you canuck George?

[george]

Hi T|im
As usual your work is incredible! The detail work included by you can`t compare. Keep up the Good Work and Thanks for posting here.
George

[598602G]

Half the flood holes on the sail are filed out. Give you an idea on how many flood holes are in a Golf II sail. All the flood holes are molded into the sail. That's what I call a diesel boat. DBF

[598602G]

USS Abraham Lincoln SSB.

[598602G]

The reason we almost went down and sank forever was because a stupid LTJG OOD. Some how he over filled aft trims tanks by about 80,000lbs. Some how the reactor scrammed. I was in sonar watching the depth gauge move fast and we were sinking backwards at 30+ degrees. I here the diving officer throw the chicken switches. When we broke the surface we came down so hard on the fair water planes it broke the hydraulic ram. Those guys back aft didn't know they went below TD. Anyway we had to fire up the diesel and run on the diesel in a sea state 3. Every time a wave hit the snorkel induction valve would close and your ear drums would get sucked into your head. Thank god for a Fairbanks Morse. Guess that makes me a DBF guy.

[598602G]

I remember being dead asleep in the torpedo room when the friggin torpedo men decided to shoot water slugs. Woke me up and scared the **** out of me

[598602G]

I think they were Mk14's. My first patrol I had a sheet of aluminum and a foam mattress and I slept next to the torpedo's because there was no rack available. I stayed in those barracks on Ford Island. I remember having to take the ferry to Ford. You remember we use to store are cars in those hangars on Ford with all the bullet holes from WWII

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Russians hated the Lincoln. 598's were faster and could maneuver better then most of there garbage. They were always waiting for us to come out of port with there so called fishing trawlers AGI. Man when we would hit flank speed that boat would just shake and shudder. You ask people about if they served over there about the time I was in when the Lincoln almost sank. Everyone use to call my boat the Sinkin Lincoln after that. If I remember correctly we had Mk48, Mk37 and a few Mk18 torpedo's.

Bad manifold set-up from the BCP? Or did someone get stupid with the TDU?

We had MK-37's, MK-14's, and one MK-45 (for that very 'special' occasion). MK-48's were just coming into the fleet when I got out of the submarine community. I helped certify them at Keyport, but never operated with them.

Doubt you had MK-18's (old WW-2 era electric straight-runner). Maybe MK-16?

Loved Pearl! Off-crewed there. Flew a lot of r/c and c/l on Ford Island with Doug Smith (another FTB). Was the perfect life for single guys. Flights to Japan were not that long. That's where I caught Yellow-Fever.

David

[598602G]

Russians hated the Lincoln. 598's were faster and could maneuver better then most of there garbage. They were always waiting for us to come out of port with there so called fishing trawlers AGI. Man when we would hit flank speed that boat would just shake and shudder. You ask people about if they served over there about the time I was in when the Lincoln almost sank. Everyone use to call my boat the Sinkin Lincoln after that. If I remember correctly we had Mk48, Mk37 and a few Mk18 torpedo's.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

You know what Guam stands for? Gooks Under American Management. My brother was on the Thomas Jefferson in Guam same time I was in Guam. I got a awesome trim party on a patrol on the Lincoln one time. 598 has the biggest torpedo room other than a Skipjack to get a really good trim party going because we had 6 tubes forward. You have to pity the torpedomen on a 598 as they had to load torpedo's in the tubes with a block and tackle. Go figure.

Hell, the 598's HAD SKIPJACK torpedo-rooms! Massive.

Block and tackle was high-tech to us too. But, if the Weapons Officer was out of the room, we simply put our backs to the prop-guards and pushed them along the skids by hand. Not many small TM's on the boats; Our motto: "I may not be able to spell it, but I can lift it!".

David

[598602G]

You know what Guam stands for? Gooks Under American Management. My brother was on the Thomas Jefferson in Guam same time I was in Guam. I got a awesome trim party on a patrol on the Lincoln one time. 598 has the biggest torpedo room other than a Skipjack to get a really good trim party going because we had 6 tubes forward. You have to pity the torpedomen on a 598 as they had to load torpedo's in the tubes with a block and tackle. Go figure.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Thanks Dave for looking for those parts. I even thought about making a Foxtrot since the last Foxtrot thing went south. I thought about doing the Foxtrot or a Whiskey. Now someone was asking about the sea keeping of the Golf. I just have to make a light weight yet strong sail so it is not top heavy. I enlarged the stern planes only slightly and the rudder is enlarged.

Diesel boats (ALBACORE and the Soviet counterpart excluded) don't go fast enough for foil-roll to be an issue. And that deep keel (bulged to accommodate the launcher pedestal) affords plenty of distance between the vertical component of the c.g. and c.b. Not to sweat it.

I was WEBSTER (blue) out of Guam (arm-pit of the Pacific) in the mid-70's. Only thing I got out of Guam was crabs. Nine patrols as launcher tech/Torpedoman.



David

[598602G]

Thanks Dave for looking for those parts. I even thought about making a Foxtrot since the last Foxtrot thing went south. I thought about doing the Foxtrot or a Whiskey. Now someone was asking about the sea keeping of the Golf. I just have to make a light weight yet strong sail so it is not top heavy. I enlarged the stern planes only slightly and the rudder is enlarged.

[SSN SonarTech]

Just wondering, My dad was a plank owner on Lincoln.