Addicted to this show...
 

Finally set about watching "The Silent Service" , many episodes on youtube. Even though it's older and some of the dialogue is corny, great show.Enjoy the episodes and especially that many of those involved in the stories were alive and well when it was filmed, so are able to see/hear O Kane, Fluckey, some of the Chiefs such as Earl Archer etc. Enjoy that "Tommy" Dykers(CO of USS Jack) hosts and narrates most of the stories.


This episode is about the Barb, Fluckey himself is at the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywf8iwmCyMQ

Familiar Face
 

I'm a Doctor Jim! Not a Submarine Captain... wait...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQnvWkqNw1Y

Yes, it's a great one. I have the entire set. It's fun to see actors who would later be famous in large and small roles. Not only DeForrest Kelly but Leonard Nimoy and even Tom Laughlin (Billy Jack). The stories are often over-simplified, which is frustrating only to one who has studied the history, so that's alright.

Oh, and the very last episode actually moved to the other side, telling the story of U-47's foray into Scapa Flow. And get this: Günther Prien was played by none other than Werner Klemperer, later to become famous as Colonel Klink on Hogan's Heroes.

I, also, have downloaded all of olgoat's files.
And I got to the point of checking out the cast of characters before I watched the episode, to see who might be in it. Lots of (later) stars.

Is it just me, or is the sub at the start of the vid in the first post coming up at a REALLY steep angle?

Looks to be a greater angle than any video I've seen of a newer sub surfacing "in a hurry".


Barracuda

Likely an emergency blow

I know,:up: I just meant that the angle of the "climb" appears MUCH steeper than any video I've ever seen of a "teardrop" hulled sub doing an emergency surface.:hmmm:


I could have made that last post clearer, it was really late when I posted that.:zzz:


Barracuda

lol got ya. I agree looked pretty steep

The very famous video is of USS Pickerel (SS-524), a GUPPY II boat, during a test of emergency surfacing capability off Hawaii on March 1, 1952, under the command of Cdr. Paul Schratz. The official Navy version is that the Pickerel accelerated to full speed at 150 feet, then emergency surfaced, achieving a maximum deck angle of 48 degrees. Crew scuttlebut says that Cdr. Schratz rang up flank speed at 250, blew all, and ordered 60 degrees up-bubble. The planesmen overshot and lost the bubble at 65 degrees. Based on the high-water mark in the pump room bilge, maximum up-angle was claimed to be 72 degrees! The whole thing was captured on film by USS Queenfish, the test observer boat.

An interesting aside that I found online is that, at the time the famous still was made, Pickerel's screws were still about 200 feet deep!

BTW, SS-542 was not a WW2 boat. Although she was launched in 1944, SS-524 was not commissioned until 1949. The WW2 Pickerel, SS-177, was lost with all hands on her seventh war patrol in mid-1943.

Interesting. Thanks for the info! :Kaleun_Salute:

Well, if you are going to mess up, I guess it's better to "go big" before you go home!:haha:

Thanks for info...


Barracuda