Daily submarine picture

[greenman407]

[Von Hilde]

Im curious as to how they stowed two in that can for operational patrols, and how long it took to surface, assemble the missile and set up a launch. The Barbero and Tuny's load out was 2 apiece, The Grayback and growler were suppose to carry 4 aboard and the Halibut 5. The standing order for the deterrant missions in the late 50s early 60s was to have at least 5 missiles deployed worldwide at one time. Prity thin ice, we were skating on back then. Especially when the track record for the successful launches was 2 out of 3 during the test program and the accuracy was .5% of the range for those weapons. The "close is good in horseshoes" applies to nukes as well. Percision weapons were not so percise back then.

[greenman407]

A Couple of onboard views from the Portsmouth passing thru the Panama canal.

[greenman407]

Launch of the Conquerer

[greenman407]

[greenman407]

[modelnut]

Heavy weathering.

[greenman407]

Yes, she needs a good scrubbing........but thats a lot of scrubbing.

[greenman407]

Looks like they are singing. Probably Old McDonald went to town, or Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

[Von Hilde]

Yes, she needs a good scrubbing........but thats a lot of scrubbing.

a muratic acid washdown, Then a big pressure steam hose. Knocks the crud right off. Wastewater runoff is run thru a water treatment facility. The acid is emulsified during the steam washdown, and the solids are filtered off. Not like they use to do when they just pulled em up on the marine railway and hosed em off and let the wase water run down the ramp. Not to mention all the lead based paint chips and ground metal and other goodies that got flushed into the harbor. I did a research dive of the end of the old ramp at the Key West sub base, for the HAZMAT guys in the 80s. That was several years after the base closed. Lots of bad stuff in the muck on the harbor floor that had to be dredged up

[greenman407]

Now heres something that you dont see everyday. A Kilo with a ........................??

[greenman407]

Tail end of a early German post war sub on display. Not sure which one.

[greenman407]

Patrick Henry, in her day

[greenman407]

Good Painting

[modelnut]

Yes. That's a great painting. But I notice that there still are no flood/drain holes under the sub. Are all of these paintings done by landlubbers?

- Leelan