Daily submarine picture

[reddevil]

Freshly refurbished ISAAC PERAL at her new place, with a couple of pics from the inside.

[reddevil]

And some views and details from a couple of drydocked Spanish Navy AGOSTA class.

[greenman407]

Nice. Itll be much better after they get the scaffolding out of the way.

[reddevil]

Yep, but you see: Pictures are taken from outside the shipyard fence, with the naval base beyond, feeling like a cold war spy ... under a heavy summer sun in the south east of Spain.

[greenman407]

AH! So you dont want them to................say no more. Get a long telephoto lens on your camera........................we are waiting.(emoticon smiley face with big dimples)

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

I think the most beautiful diesel boats ever.

Any drawings out there?

M

[reddevil]

No, sorry.

[greenman407]

Type 212 underwasser view. At least some of them are coming out of the sail. Interesting. They cant stay in there too long......unless they have ports in the sail to hook up for O2

[greenman407]

This is such a nice picture, Im going to put it here twice. One original.....sortof,.... and one brightened up a wee bit.

[greenman407]

Here is a Regulus missile on the Greyback, warming up the water.

[Von Hilde]

Type 212 underwasser view. At least some of them are coming out of the sail. Interesting. They cant stay in there too long......unless they have ports in the sail to hook up for O2[ATTACH=CONFIG]28087[/ATTACH]

thats just the main hatch that goes to the lock out room. Standard way to deploy divers on all boats. Altho I have deployed thru the tubes with a Munson lung on the old WWII diesel electric fleet boats. When I tell non bubblehead types this story they usually think I went out in full Drager with weapons, but as a certain unnamed soul around here knows, those tubes were less than 2 feet wide. You would develope severe "Blivitt" syndrome. Thats 10 pounds of crap stuffed in a 5 pound sack. Thru the tubes was the last ditch effort emergency escape procedure, where you pushed the Munsonlung ahead of you with the mouthpiece in yer mutt after they secured the load hatch and opened the forward doors. Basiclly if you had togo out that way, someone had to stick around the sub to operate the floodding of the compartment. The escape thru the tubes method training stopped in the mid 60s due to the more convienient lock out compartments being built into post WWII boats. An interesting note about post war boats with the Regulus compartments forward, like the Greyback. When the Polaris boats were deployed and the Regulus program was discontinued, We used those compartments as early SDV stoage a few times. Notice in the picture of the run up of the missile. There are all the VIPs staff cars for the show. The Cadalacs, one Chrysler Imperial and a Chevy biscane. All are 1958s. The Chevy is Captain or below staff car. The Imperial is and Admerals car. I woud guess the Caddys are big time like the CNO and possiblly senitors. Those boats went around the world showin off and ratteling sabers in those days. I wonder what the cake at the after party at the "O" club looked like

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Von,

What Regulus boat was it that had that bad lock-out valve line-up screw-up that drowned all those guys? A Diver buddy, Bloomer, was one of the ones killed during that incident -- in happier times he was our dive-boats mud-puppy engineer; after that he went to dive-school, got his pin; and from there got into the 'Projects' community. Got into spooky stuff and I only learned that he was one of those guys years after the incident.

Yeah, on the TRUTTA (Key West) we would moor between the piers, sink to the bottom, and lock UDT's in and out of the trunk all day. The trainee's would literally walk from the UDT school, to the pier -- it was all right there. The Instructor's would show off the tubes while trainee's waited their turn in the trunk, but we never locked anyone out of 'em. Always the forward trunk.

I got a picture somewhere of TRUTTA on the bottom, her sail still sticking in the air, mooring lines reaching to adjoining piers.

You guy's are nuts!!

M

[redboat219]

That would be the USS Grayback. Here's a story of the incident, http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+si...p.-a0126554470

[greenman407]

Blueback, Darter and Greyback. Quite a collection in one spot.

[greenman407]

Speaking of the accident with the Greyback, I wonder how relevant this picture is? Dave, would you recognize the diver at the hatch, or up on dock?