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My wife visited here with a friend. Today, I drove her into town for an appointment, and we visited the graveyard. Hard to take when this is all that's left.
My cap next to one placard.
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(fairwater planes, rudders, from Thresher class, Sturgeon class, and a couple of the 41-for-freedom Boomers)
 
Kinda hard to park the whole thing dontcha think Dad? :smile:


I vote we name the place Subhenge.

Public or privatley owned?
 
Those are tasteful monuments. Just read some on the USS Seahorse, when did you serve?
 
Public. In a park, on an old Naval Air Station.
I explained to my wife, WWII guys have aircraft carriers, destroyers, submarines....aircraft of all types...theyh can visit and see.
Army pukes have Hueys, tanks, amphibs, all in museums to see and explain to grandkids what they did.
Nuke sub guys have nothing...except the Nautilus, which was basically a converted diesel hull.
Every attempt to have one on display, so far, has gotten all the way through the chain of command and some moron some place decides that maybe the enemy would glean some secret.
So it's squashed.
The latest is Narwal, SSN 671, which was sort of all by itself in the Sturgeon class, with a special reactor plant.
Interestingly, Nautilus is SS(N) 571 (the "N" in parenthesis was the way the skimmers first demanded nuke boats be identified...no idea why...)
Dave
 
Part of the problem with preserving ships though is the ongoing costs to keep them up. Most organizations have no idea what it will cost yearly for maintenance and once the downward spiral starts it can be impossible to catch back up since unlike a plan or tank or helicopter a ship can't be parked indoors where continuing preservation costs can be minimized. And then there are those who have misplaced ideas about what a ship can be used for. A local organization wanted to bring the namesake submarine here where I live. One of the use ideas floated was to gut the interior and use it as a convention center, not understanding that a sub, in comparision to a real convention hall, is a long narrow tube and not really open space for people to gather. I'd love to see representative samples preserved, but the costs will never be justified by the larger population.
 
I was in 68-74. SeaHorse Maru was the only one I was permanently assigned to.
One guy spent 12 years on board.
Most who carreered came back.

The Rusty Russkie we had here for a couple of years....I ran the restoration crew.
Owners sold it out from under us, to Sandy Eiggo.
I said to the new owners, when are you going to dry dock it?
They were shocked.
Asked if it needed it?
For a long time.

Almost lost it in tow...7 feet of water in one compartment.....now, it looks like it will be fixed or reefed.
They never did anything with it.
 
Careful, Don... in a catfight it's usually th' instigator whut gets shredded.

I was above it all. :smirk:
 
No catfight. Just in case, tubes are loaded, flooded down, outer doors open, solution active on the Fire Control, waiting for a final bearing......
 
Ha! I'm in Rhode Island . You have about as much chance of reaching here as North Korea has of reaching Washington.

oh by the way I spent my stateside time in the Army at Fort Lewis Washington. Lovely state during the 2 days it doesn't rain.
 
Hey summer is lovely.
By the way ...
I thinks it's on a Thursday this year
 
Oh and don't forget that classic song " The Aroma of Tacoma".
 
Spoken like someone who has spent sometime there.
Fort Lewis AKA JBLM
My friend spent 3 long years there 1 summer...he likes to say
 
I will admit we have mountains around here but I've never seen anything to top Mt Rainier.
 
A little more on topic..."The USS Torsk (SS-423) is docked at the Baltimore Maritime Museum and is one of two Tench Class submarines still located inside the United States. It is nicknamed the "Galloping Ghost of the Japanese Coast." In 1945, Torsk made two war patrols off Japan, sinking one cargo vessel and two coastal defense frigates. The latter of these, torpedoed on 14 August 1945, was the last enemy ship sunk by the U.S. Navy in World War II."
One of the key words there is ​docked.
 
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