I spy!

[greenman407]

I SPY a woman. Which one is she?

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Oh, God ... please let this be a Pilot and not crew.

Any civilization that puts women in harms way -- while there remains males not yet in uniform -- is not civilized.

David

[Von Hilde]

the two in watch caps are not crewmembers, and any civilization that sends the kids to war instead of the greedy political *******s that wage it, is far from civilized.

[greenman407]

I SPY a Sauro. Note the zoom in shot that I put black shaky pointers on. What are these areas?

[trout]

Looks like stowage - with the ladder to the side perhaps a craft of some type is in use?

[greenman407]

You mean like............Capt Nemo says , "Break out the Skiff" Ok , I will buy that. What about the area in the back?

[Von Hilde]

aft is the old parasail platform, now used for the Benson gyrocopter

[greenman407]

Eyes in the sky, eh. Oh,.......thats my imitation Canadian vennacular.

[greenman407]

I SPY something Ive never noticed before. Note at the bottom of the sail on this one. What are those, some kind of water intakes? Odd place to have those.

[BDFguy]

BQS-14A under ice system CTFM projectors.
Pic shows the upper 3 elements of the 9 element array, they are wide down left, center and right. Shame on the idiot that painted them.
get qualified.

[greenman407]

Thanks BDFguy. I figured someone would help us out on that one. By the way, it sounds like you have some actual experience with these early boats.

[greenman407]

I SPY a bunch of "do dads" sensors sticking out of this sail and on the deck. Anyone got any info on them?

[639mpa]

We made a trip to the west coast from Pearl Harbor for sound trials and analysis of the ship. During this very interesting evolution, only 50% of the crew needed to be onboard. Another officer and I got permission from the CO to bring our bicycles on the trip. We disassembled them and put them in the torpedo room. Rode all over the Seattle area and Olympic Penninsula. It was awesome but seemed like we were always going up hill.
Another boat making a home port change from San Diego allowed a sailor to disassemble his motorcycle and store it in the free flood areas. He coated it with a ton of grease. It arrived safely, cleaned the grease and it still worked

[639mpa]

The partially open door above the sonar is for the whistle. It was always fun to be the one to test it after surfacing because it spewed out water that collected in it. One time the surfacing crew blew it out but it collected water from a lot of surface spray. The deck crew got a bath when we came to the pier and we sounded the whistle when backing. It was funny as heck but they were po'd.

[639mpa]

I was speaking about the earlier picture where the under ice sonar was painted.

The partially open door above the sonar is for the whistle. It was always fun to be the one to test it after surfacing because it spewed out water that collected in it. One time the surfacing crew blew it out but it collected water from a lot of surface spray. The deck crew got a bath when we came to the pier and we sounded the whistle when backing. It was funny as heck but they were po'd.