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[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

[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

[greenman407]

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

[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]

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

[reddevil]

No, sorry.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

I think the most beautiful diesel boats ever.

Any drawings out there?

M

[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)

[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]

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

[reddevil]

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

[reddevil]

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

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Good stuff. Keep it coming, Boss.

M

[639mpa]

This is respose to the surfacing pictures on the prior pages.

At least once per calendar quarter we had to do and emergency surface procedure. It was initiated with a report of flooding below a certain depth and on the order of the Officer Of The Deck (OOD) "Emergency Surface" The duties were as follows when the order was issued:
Chief of the Watch (COW) Initiate Emergency Blow at the Ballast Control Panel (BCP) 15 Seconds for the drill
Diving Officer of the watch (DOW) Order Full Rise on the Fairwater Planes
Rudder Amidships
Maintain 15-20 Degree UP Angle
Officer of the Deck (OOD) Order ALL Ahead Full Yes All in our squadron even though we had only 1 screw! Why not Flank? This was to avoid switching Main Coolant Pumps to Fast Speed. We never had problems but they didnt want switching in an emergency.

The scopes couldn't be raised as they would bend back. Prior to the drill we went to periscope depth and did visual searches and sonar searches to make sure no one would get hit unlike the situation with the Japanese Trawler

Once the ship broke the surface it fell back to about 200 feet and the order given "Prepare to Surface" followed immediately by "Surface Surface Surface"
In a real flooding situation, the engine room would isolate seawater systems in the ER or AFT Macheniry Room 2 by throwing the levers in the overhead (4). We called them the "chicken switches" This was done by the Engineering officer of the watch (EOOW). If the source of flooding was known then that system was isolated. If unknown then all but 1 main seawater system(MSW) was shut, if that didn't stop it, then the other side MSW was shut and all three other systems were opened. This was to keep 1 condenser running to maintain electric power and propulsion.
Since one of my collateral duties was Ships Diving Officer I always had to be in Control for the Drill. Many times I was the OOD. It was awesome. The tens and units dials on the digital depth gage spun so fast they couldn't be read. As soon as the ship came up the second time the OOD raised the scope for a visual in high and low power. The amazing thing was to then look at the big wave and wake aft of the ship. AWESOME!
If anyone would like to know about the Quarterly Control Rise Test let me know.

[Von Hilde]

Nice, but photoshopped

in the real world, you wouldnt see anything. It would be zerodarkhundred and no moon, all you would see is total black